Event Preview: Holiday Cheer-A Celebration of Oregon Authors at The Oregon Historical Society

This past week provided wonderful opportunities to interact with some of Portland and the Northwest’s finest literary talent.  First up was Sunday’s Sci-Fi Authorfest Book Signing, a gathering of 18 Northwest authors fresh off this years Orycon.  Next came Tuesday’s Willamette Writers hosted Writer’s Faire, which featured 45 local authors selling and signing their current and past releases.  Tomorrow (12-6) this opportunity once again presents itself when over 50 of Oregon’s most well recognized authors will coalesce at The Oregon Historical Society for the 42nd Annual Holiday Cheer.

A sampling of the lineup at this years event and their most recent releases include:

• Barbara I. Bond (Take a Hike Portland: Hikes within Two Hours of the City)
• Brian Booth (Davis Country: H.L. Davis’s Northwest)
• John Daniel (The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life and Literature)
• Ellen Heltzel (Between the Covers: The Book Babes Guide to a Woman’s Reading Pleasures)
• Bart King (The Pocket Guide to Magic)
• Jane Kirkpatrick (A Flickering Light)
• Jim Kopp (Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage)
• Jim Lommasson (Oaks Park Pentimento)
• Jeff Mapes (Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities)
• Philip Margolin (The Fugitive)
• Lewis A. McArthur (Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition)
• Sarah Baker Munro (Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon)
• R. Gregory Nokes (Massacred for Gold, The Chinese in Hells Canyon)
• Thomas Vaughan (Incredible Lies: Stories of Old-Fashioned Golf)
• Gerald W. Williams (The U.S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest: A History)
• George Byron Wright (Driving to Vernonia, A Novel)

A full list of the authors in attendance can be found here.

In addition to signing books, a few of the authors will be giving presentations which begin at 12:15pm and continue every 45 minutes thereafter until the final presentation by Richard Engeman (The Oregon Companion) at 3:15.   All presentations will be held in the OHS’ Madison Room.

The event runs from from Noon to 5:00pm with the author signing ending at 4:00pm.  Admission is $5, although children 17 & Under and OHS members get in for free.  Hope to see you there.  I will be the guy with a lil’ boy in tow…at least his admission will be free!