• Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 7:00 pm at the Main Library

                        Cynthia Barnett, author of Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern

                              U.S. and Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis

                         Cynthia Barnett is an award-winning journalist and a senior writer at Florida Trend

                         magazine.  She has a special interest in environmental history and in 2004, spent

     a year at the University of Michigan as a Knight-Wallace Fellow studying freshwater

     supply.   Ms. Barnett will discuss Florida’s water crisis and look at solutions that

     have found success in communities around the world.  Don’t miss this timely program

     on a topic so very relevant to Columbia County and North Central Florida. 

                         Thank you to Save Our Suwannee for sponsoring this program.

     http://www.cynthiabarnett.net/

• Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 2:00 pm at the Main Library 

                        Phyllis Smallman, author of Margarita Nights and Champagne

for Buzzards

                        Phyllis Smallman is a Canadian who has spent a lot of time in

Florida, the setting for her award-winning mystery series featuring

sassy bartender, Sherri Travis.  A former potter with a lifelong love

of mysteries, Phyllis divides her time between her native Ontario and

Sarasota.  She will join us live via Skype for this program.

                        http://www.phyllissmallman.com/

• Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 2:00 pm at the Main Library

                        George R. “Bob” Dekle, author of The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution

            and Execution of Ted Bundy 

Former prosecutor Bob Dekle will present the program for the

2012 Friends of the Library Annual Meeting.  Now a legal skills

professor at the University of Florida and the author of a legal

textbook (Prosecution Principles: A Clinical Handbook), Dekle will

discuss the book that he wrote about his experience investigating

and prosecuting serial killer Ted Bundy from 1978 to 1980.

• Sunday,  March 18, 2012 at 2:00 pm at the Main Library

                        Nancy Haddock, author of La Vida Vampire, Last Vampire Standing, and

Always the Vampire

Nancy Haddock is a former speech pathologist and high school teacher from

Oklahoma turned award-winning, national bestselling author of paranormal

romantic mysteries.  She now writes full-time in her adopted hometown of

St. Augustine, Florida where she enjoys her proximity to the city’s rich history

and beautiful beaches.

                        http://nancyhaddock.com/

• Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm at the Main Library

                        Warren Caterson, author of Table for Two: The Cookbook for Couples 

Author and chef Warren Caterson has studied at the Southeast Institute of Culinary

Arts in St. Augustine.  Join us as we celebrate National Library Week with Chef

Warren Caterson presenting a dynamic cooking demonstration and sharing tips

and recipes from his cookbook.

http://www.tablefortwocookbooks.com/

• Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 2:00 pm at the Main Library

                        Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Resources 

                        Barbara Hines, Outreach Coordinator with the Florida Public Archaeology

                        Network will discuss how historic cemeteries can be used in research and

                        what information they can provide.  She will also touch on the basics of

                        how to properly clean and maintain historic cemeteries.

                        http://www.flpublicarchaeology.org/

• Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 2:00 pm at the Main Library

                       June Weltman, author of Mystery of the Missing Candlestick, presents Take a Tour: International Crime Novels

                        June Weltman began her writing career as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. 

Her first young adult book, Mystery of the Missing Candlestick, won the Florida

Historical Society’s Journeys for the Junior Historian Book Award and the

Florida Publishers Association’s President’s Award for Best Young Adult

Fiction in 2005.  She continues to work as a freelance writer and editor in

addition to reviewing mysteries for the Florida Times-Union.  She is currently

teaching a community education course on international mysteries at the

University of North Florida’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.  She lives in Jacksonville.

http://www.juneweltman.com/

• Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 2:00 pm at the Main Library

                        Learning about Florida Prehistory 

                        Barbara Hines, Outreach Coordinator with the Florida Public Archaeology

                        Network will discuss the different culture periods in Florida’s Prehistory, from

                        Paleoindian times up until the Historic Period.  This will be a fun program, using

                        basic, easy to understand terms, that is appropriate for both adults and children. 

                        http://www.flpublicarchaeology.org/