CWC South Has Booth,
Raffle Baskets, Essay Workshop,
More, at Riverside Dickens Festival
February 24-25, 2018
The Riverside Dickens Festival – in its Silver Jubilee 25th year – will show off its Victorian best with live music and stage performances, debates and speeches by celebrity authors Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells and others, Queen Victoria (portrayed by talented tribute artists), a Pickwick Pub Night, costumes and vendors, all located in Historic Downtown Riverside February 24-25, 2018.
The CWC South booth, open both days, will have educational information about Dickens contemporaries in California, and handouts about membership and branch events. For the Pickwick Pub Night fundraiser, CWC South will provide two raffle baskets containing such notable items as an Arthur Conan Doyle interview on DVD and a CD of the classic Orson Welles radio broadcast of H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. Additionally, CWC South will present a half-hour essay-writing workshop for teens, on Saturday and again on Sunday.
Internet Archive Gives
Old Books New Life
Reported by the Authors Guild on October 19, 2017, “The Internet Archive has announced a promising initiative aimed at giving new, online life to 75-plus-year-old books. Although the Internet Archive has sometimes been cavalier about copyright and dismissive of the needs of authors, we are happy about this project, which aims to make 10,000 or more out-of-print books published between 1923 and 1941 available to researchers, historians, and readers.” (See www.archive.org.)