CR presents visiting writers Jerry Rohde and Ray Raphael

College of the Redwoods will present visiting writers and local historians Jerry Rohde and Ray Raphael on campus this Friday, March 25 at 7:00 p.m. in room HU 110.  Doors open at 6:30 p.m.  Rohde and Raphael will read from their writings on local history and follow with a question and answer session. The reading is free and open to the public.

 Ray Raphael has published many books about the American Revolution and the founding of the nation, and books on subjects as diverse as male initiation rites, education, regional history (Northwest California), and timber politics. Jerry Rohde has published several guidebooks about hiking in Humboldt, and also a place-based history about the Table Bluff area. For more information about each of these writers and their many publications, check out their bios at http://www.redwoods.edu/visitingwriters/

 Copies of their books will be available for purchase and signing at the reading.

 For more information about the event, contact the Visiting Writers Series Coordinator, Prof. David Holper at 707-476-4370.

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