Episode 53 · Linda Lorvig · August 31, 2024
Linda Lorvig shares how she came to Humboldt, the 32 years she spent as a South Bay School librarian, and the joy of helping students discover books they loved. She also talks about the Humboldt County Children’s Author Festival, which is celebrating 50 years of bringing authors and students together.
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What this episode covers
- Linda’s move to Humboldt in 1974 and her roots in Barstow, California
- Her career at South Bay School Library and the weekly story times she loved
- The satisfaction of helping students find the right book, especially reluctant readers
- How literacy and learning styles shape the way kids connect with stories
- The origins and growth of the Humboldt County Children’s Author Festival
- What happens during festival week, including author visits, receptions, school tours, and the banquet
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Scott Hammond: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, it's Scott Hammond with 100% Humboldt with my new best friend, Linda Lorvig.
Scott Hammond: Hi, Linda.
Linda Lorvig: Hi, Scott.
Scott Hammond: How's your day?
Linda Lorvig: It's great. It's good to be here with you.
Scott Hammond: Here with you. So, uh, we're gonna talk about this authors festival, but first, let's talk about you. I wanna hear about the Linda story. How did you get to Humboldt or are you native? I, I really don't know a lot about you or your background.
Linda Lorvig: Uh, actually, I've been here 50 years.
Linda Lorvig: Um-
Scott Hammond: Wow. Almost local.
Linda Lorvig: Almost local. I do feel like it sometimes. I can see those places-
Scott Hammond: That's Ferndale
Linda Lorvig: … remember when-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … that place was here and now it's gone.
Scott Hammond: Oh, yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Uh, yeah. We, we moved here in 1974.
Scott Hammond: Wow.
Linda Lorvig: My husband graduated from college in Southern Utah-
Scott Hammond: Oh
Linda Lorvig: … and put out applications for, he was a plan checker, building inspector for the city.
Scott Hammond: Oh, wow.
Linda Lorvig: So we moved here and I li- I was raised in Southern
Linda Lorvig: California.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And I didn't wanna live in California anymore-
Scott Hammond: Ah
Linda Lorvig: … 'cause it's hot-
Scott Hammond: Right
Linda Lorvig: … until we moved to Humboldt County.
Scott Hammond: And then it's not hot.
Linda Lorvig: And then it's not hot.
Scott Hammond: Today's hot. It's 60- … 66 degrees out there. It's a steamer.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, that's right.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: That's right.
Scott Hammond: That's funny.
Linda Lorvig: That's what we tell people-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … in the summertime.
Scott Hammond: Don't come here. It rains all the time. You wouldn't like Humboldt. It's just-
Linda Lorvig: No. Yeah
Scott Hammond: … horrible rain.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: The people are nice, but y- yeah, it's too hot.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. That's what we used to say on a nice day, "Oh, no, they're all gonna wanna move here on this-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … nice, clear, sunny day." So, um, yeah, and then in
Linda Lorvig: 1975, I got a job with South Bay School Library.
Scott Hammond: Oh.
Linda Lorvig: And I had worked in a college library, and that's what I had wanted to do, but
Linda Lorvig: children.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And I worked at South Bay School Library for 32 years.
Scott Hammond: Oh, that's great.
Linda Lorvig: And then my kids are grown and gone, and,
Linda Lorvig: uh-
Scott Hammond: Now you have all these other kids in these classrooms
Linda Lorvig: … I have all these other kids, yeah.
Scott Hammond: That's wonderful.
Linda Lorvig: All these others that I can claim a little bit to be mine.
Scott Hammond: I love it. I think that's legacy stuff. I remember, we all remember that janitor or that cool teacher or that cool librarian or whomever, teacher's aide-
Linda Lorvig: You're right
Scott Hammond: … that made a difference.
Linda Lorvig: You're right.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: In fact, today, um, I love it when I do run into a s- former student, because I don't recognize them.
Scott Hammond: And they have kids and grandkids.
Linda Lorvig: They're, well, they're, they're grown, yeah. They're go-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … and that's when I retired, I said, "You know, when I'm seeing the grandkids of the kids I started with coming-"
Scott Hammond: No way
Linda Lorvig: … I've been there for a while.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: So today I had to drop off something at Humboldt County Office of Ed, and, uh, the front receptionist, it was a guy, and I told him my name, and he goes, "Mrs. Lorvig, you were my librarian."
Scott Hammond: No way.
Linda Lorvig: And I went, "Give me your name."
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And when he told me, I went, "Oh my gosh."
Scott Hammond: I remember you.
Linda Lorvig: So, yes. Yes.
Scott Hammond: You're a bigger version of you.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah, I was a rec major at Humboldt State, and then went over and worked at, uh, Dows Prairie School and, uh, and St.
Scott Hammond: Mary's. And all these kids at St. Mary's were just little, and now they're just grown, you know, grandparents.
Linda Lorvig: Uh-huh.
Scott Hammond: So it's, it's generational and weird and cool.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: What part of Southern California are you from?
Linda Lorvig: Barstow.
Scott Hammond: Barstow?
Linda Lorvig: The Mojave Desert.
Scott Hammond: I know it. Yeah, I know it a little bit, yeah. We're from San Diego, so we used to-
Linda Lorvig: I do
Scott Hammond: … go up to the desert and camp and smoke weed and drink-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … and shoot guns and whatever.
Linda Lorvig: Oh, that sounds-
Scott Hammond: Howl at the moon.
Linda Lorvig: That sounds like the Barstow desert I know.
Scott Hammond: Yeah. You know, during our time at Humboldt, we did a three-week field trip in the desert-
Linda Lorvig: Uh-huh
Scott Hammond: … with a, a program called Cluster. It was an alternative ed hippie feral child, um, hippie dippy way to get units, which was, turns out a really wonderful education. But one of the stops was outside of Barstow at almost, like, a Hotel California compound-
Scott Hammond: … that I'll never for- We stayed there. It was a, probably a youth hostel or something-
Linda Lorvig: Oh
Scott Hammond: … but it was, and then next morning we were on the way to Joshua Tree.
Linda Lorvig: Uh-huh.
Scott Hammond: And so we-
Linda Lorvig: Uh-huh
Scott Hammond: … from Death Valley, kind of on the way.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And it was fun, so. So what brought you to Humboldt?
Scott Hammond: You're-
Linda Lorvig: Well, my husband's job.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Um-
Scott Hammond: So y- did you go with him to school up in Utah then?
Linda Lorvig: We did. Um, we were, I graduated high school in
Linda Lorvig: '67, and-
Scott Hammond: Okay
Linda Lorvig: … we got married in '69, and then in 1970 he got drafted.
Scott Hammond: Oh, wow.
Linda Lorvig: Of course, you know. And because of that, which he was very fortunate, he didn't have to go
Linda Lorvig: to Vietnam.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: He was in North Carolina. And after that, the GI Bill
Linda Lorvig: helped him-
Scott Hammond: Oh, wow
Linda Lorvig: … to finish going to school.
Scott Hammond: Yes.
Linda Lorvig: And he knew-
Scott Hammond: So engineering, civil engineering
Linda Lorvig: … engineering, yeah.
Scott Hammond: Wow. Southern, which part of Southern Utah?
Linda Lorvig: Cedar City, which is about, mm, two hours south of Salt
Linda Lorvig: Lake City.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: Close to St. George.
Scott Hammond: Which is Arches National Monument.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Down that way.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott Hammond: On that same trip, we went there. It's all connecting, folks.
Linda Lorvig: Well, that's what I say. Barstow, we were married in Barstow and we moved to Las Vegas, and then-
Scott Hammond: Wow
Linda Lorvig: … Cedar City, so all of that desert area.
Scott Hammond: So was he a city planner here for the city of Eureka?
Linda Lorvig: He was an, uh, yes.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: Well, he wasn't a planner. He was a plan checker and a building inspector.
Scott Hammond: Wonder if I would… Well, we were county, so I wouldn't know him. Probably. Anyway.
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: Well, hey, welcome.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: So, uh, tell us, uh, so y- now you're retired.
Linda Lorvig: I am.
Scott Hammond: What was the funnest, let's go back to your career. What was the funnest part of being the librarian?
Linda Lorvig: Oh my gosh. I, you know, every day. I mean, I probably was one of the few that went to work every day just happy to be
Linda Lorvig: at work.
Scott Hammond: Wow.
Linda Lorvig: But I started doing story times every week.
Scott Hammond: Oh, okay.
Linda Lorvig: So doing the story times every week was great, and, uh, meeting all the students and-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … parents-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … and staff, you know. I-
Scott Hammond: Read a few stories in your day.
Linda Lorvig: I did. And I used to tell, I have friends that are still good friends of mine.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And I said I had the best job. I didn't have to do, um, report cards.
Scott Hammond: Yep.
Linda Lorvig: I didn't have to do grading papers.
Scott Hammond: That's cool.
Linda Lorvig: I just did the library.
Scott Hammond: I like it.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: So we're home, we have nine kids. We homeschooled most of them, and, uh, the last two we threw out 'cause they were just too, Joanie just threw the towel in. She said, "You're fired. Go." "Go to Worthington School. You're, you're fired."
Linda Lorvig: Oh, Worthington, yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Nick's, Nick's studio, you, was right by Worthington, just-
Linda Lorvig: Oh
Scott Hammond: … before he moved to this lu- this-
Linda Lorvig: It is
Scott Hammond: … velvet luxury studio.
Linda Lorvig: I feel very professional in here.
Scott Hammond: It's very profe- you know, and-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … it is. It's, it's all pro deal.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Uh, there are exceptions to that. You're looking at one, but that's okay. Anyway, um-Where was I? So yeah, uh, reading is a big thing. It, it is. When you read that book to somebody, it cover… It checks a lot of boxes, uh, s- on a sensory level, right?
Linda Lorvig: It does.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: It does.
Scott Hammond: And they connect to it.
Linda Lorvig: And when you can have students come into the library and ask for a special book or a… Or see the boys-
Scott Hammond: Mm
Linda Lorvig: … that don't wanna read-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … but you can find a book that they like.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And especially when Harry Potter came out, of course,
Scott Hammond: Sure
Linda Lorvig: … that really clicked with everybody.
Scott Hammond: That was a big thing for reading, right?
Linda Lorvig: It was.
Scott Hammond: 'Cause it probably… Like The Hobbit, when I was a kid.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Lord of the Rings was, oh, man, I'd never read a book, but I'll read that five
Scott Hammond: times.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: So if you can see, just s- seeing your eyes light up about something-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … seeing the students, boys, not… The girls were great, too.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: But just to know you got a boy connect with a book or a series-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … or something, they were just so excited.
Scott Hammond: Are girls generally still better, more voracious readers? Is that necessarily true?
Linda Lorvig: Eh.
Scott Hammond: Is that a-
Linda Lorvig: Well-
Scott Hammond: Is that a perception, or is that true?
Linda Lorvig: I think it is a perception. But yeah, I would think it a little bit in general that the girls tend to be.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: You still have to kind of encourage the boys. There's always a special boy or somebody who reads.
Scott Hammond: Oh, yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Um, we had one student who read. He'd check out a book two da- two books at the end of the day, and he'd read both of those books and come in the next morning wanting-
Scott Hammond: Oh, yeah
Linda Lorvig: … two more. So you've got those special. You know, you've got those.
Scott Hammond: We have one. His name's Jesse. Hi, Jesse. He's in Amsterdam today, or tonight.
Linda Lorvig: Oh.
Scott Hammond: I don't know what time it is.
Scott Hammond: Um, he would go see Joy at the, um, McKinleyville
Scott Hammond: Library.
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: And in the summer program, they would have a, uh, round table pizza, would do these little mini pizzas.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: If you'd read a chapter, you'd get a mini pizza.
Linda Lorvig: Oh, a chapter.
Scott Hammond: And I'm going-
Linda Lorvig: Oh
Scott Hammond: … and so Joy, we gotta raise the bar for this guy.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: So it became per book for Jesse.
Linda Lorvig: Okay. Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And he would still, like, rack them up, but he would… So he would come out with a box full of books, and, and Joy goes, "This, that, nothing brings me more joy-"
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … "to Joy-"
Linda Lorvig: Joy.
Scott Hammond: … at the library." And he would get, you know, the James Mishner books, and-
Linda Lorvig: Oh-
Scott Hammond: … he would just-
Linda Lorvig: … gosh
Scott Hammond: … consume books, and I'm going, "Dude, uh, must be like your mom." S- I'm not that way. You know, I'm more kinetic and let's fix things and-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … do a-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … make a thing. But he, um, he really ate up the books.
Linda Lorvig: Well, that's good, 'cause my son was not… My son was the type who was the magazines.
Scott Hammond: Oh.
Linda Lorvig: You know?
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: And his dad was, my husband, was the same way. His magazines.
Scott Hammond: Magazine guy.
Linda Lorvig: Not so much books.
Scott Hammond: What's a magazine? Do they still make-
Linda Lorvig: What is a magazine?
Scott Hammond: Do they make those?
Linda Lorvig: Well-
Scott Hammond: They make-
Linda Lorvig: … they want a lot of money for them
Scott Hammond: … made out of paper.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Yeah. Not very much nowadays, but yeah.
Scott Hammond: That's funny. Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. So.
Scott Hammond: Magazines.
Linda Lorvig: That was… Well, it was magazines, especially if it had to do with motorcycles or
Linda Lorvig: flying or-
Scott Hammond: Sure
Linda Lorvig: … cars or, you know.
Scott Hammond: Well, that's probably where you were magical, and you could bring kids into your magic room full of discovery. Let's get curious and-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … oh, here's a magazine on, MotorTrend, on-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … Shelby Mustangs and rebuilding-
Linda Lorvig: That's right
Scott Hammond: … cars or blah, blah, blah.
Linda Lorvig: If they read, and it was all something good.
Scott Hammond: And that's what always drove homeschool for us was if you could find an interest-
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm
Scott Hammond: … you could find a, a, a learner really quick.
Linda Lorvig: That's right.
Scott Hammond: You know? So our son, uh… And everybody's a little different. Some are kinetic learners, and some are readers.
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: Some are both, and many kids are the audio learners. So they listen. And so I have-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … a daughter that can recite verses from The Office, like whole
Scott Hammond: scenes-
Linda Lorvig: Oh
Scott Hammond: … from, uh, Steve Carell in The Office.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: It's like-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … "Wow, Brianna, that's pretty good." It's also pretty funny.
Scott Hammond: Hi, Brianna.
Linda Lorvig: It's a talent.
Scott Hammond: It's a talent.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: So every… So what I've learned is that everybody has learning, different learning
Scott Hammond: styles.
Linda Lorvig: That's right.
Scott Hammond: And some of them are combo, and some of them are latent, and you need to pull that, that inner reader out of someone, and that's good.
Linda Lorvig: That's what I say. I was always a visual learner.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And a lot of it was reading, you know?
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And visually-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … seeing it in your mind and just…
Scott Hammond: You know, I was… And I think it's slowing down. I was, I was able to slow down enough in Amsterdam to read this book. We just came back a couple weeks ago. At my son's, and I was bored, and we were babysitting, and I don't wanna tell any… I was a little bored doing the babysitting. And I picked up this book on Amsterdam, and it was d- done by this, uh, some journalist. It was really well done, and it told the story of, um, Anne Frank's neighbor in the Jewish-
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm
Scott Hammond: … neighborhood, and, and she knew the Franks. And it was kind of all… And this guy interviewed her. She was in her 80s when he did this in the '90s, and it was just fasc- And I'm going, "We were just in Amsterdam a day or two
Scott Hammond: before."
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: And so it was all real for me to go, "Oh, yeah." There were 80,000 Jews during the war, and now today there's only 15,000.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And so it's just this whole historical journey, and I go, "Oh, hey, Joni, I read a book. It was ama- I tell my wife. I'm all proud. "I actually read a book." So, so tell us more about the festival.
Linda Lorvig: Well, the festival, the Children's… Humboldt County Children's Author Festival, we're ce- celebrating our 50th
Linda Lorvig: birthday.
Scott Hammond: Wow.
Linda Lorvig: Which we're every other year we do the festival.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And it started in 1975.
Scott Hammond: Wow.
Linda Lorvig: Which I brought this poster.
Scott Hammond: Oh, show that one. Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. So this is the first poster.
Linda Lorvig: So-
Scott Hammond: Super Authors. Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. So this was it, and there was 15-
Scott Hammond: I like it
Linda Lorvig: … 16 authors then.
Scott Hammond: Let's see if I would know any names on there. It's all kind of retro, huh?
Scott Hammond: I like that.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: That could be an album cover for-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … like ZZ Top or something.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. So this was our-
Scott Hammond: I like that
Linda Lorvig: … the first, and it started with three ladies is all it was.
Scott Hammond: Oh.
Linda Lorvig: Sally Chabl- Chable.
Scott Hammond: Mm.
Linda Lorvig: Sandra Tam, Jennie Astrua. And those three ladies just were so wanting these, our s- children in Humboldt County to read more.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: So they wanted… So they started it with a ve- We have to… This is our poster for this year.
Scott Hammond: Oh, yeah. Let's show that one. So-
Linda Lorvig: So this is the 50-year celebration.
Scott Hammond: Lovely. I like it. So it happens Saturday, October 19th. So what ha- what happens between 10:00 and 2:00?
Linda Lorvig: Okay. Well, this is actually the, the poster for the autographing session.
Scott Hammond: That's the autograph. Okay.
Linda Lorvig: So the authors, we have 25 authors.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And they're gonna be coming from all over the United States.
Scott Hammond: Mm.
Linda Lorvig: Clear back to New Jersey, on up to Washington, down-
Scott Hammond: Wow
Linda Lorvig: … all over.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And, um, they fly in on a Wednesday-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … or drive. And, uh, we have a reception for them at Clarke, or not the Clarke, the, um-Morris Graves
Scott Hammond: Morris Graves
Linda Lorvig: And-
Scott Hammond: Better yet
Linda Lorvig: … and that's where from September to October-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … there's illustrators from their books, uh, have an art
Linda Lorvig: showing-
Scott Hammond: Oh, interesting
Linda Lorvig: … downstairs at the Morris Graves.
Scott Hammond: Oh, that's beautiful.
Linda Lorvig: So we have the reception there, so they can also go see that. Then they're on their own. Then Thursday they visit schools.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: Now, we have 59 schools they're gonna be visiting.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: So they go out to the rural ones out in-
Linda Lorvig: They go everywhere
Scott Hammond: … in the mountains and everywhere.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. We've got schools that have one student who's actually gonna end up tagging on to another school.
Scott Hammond: Uh-huh.
Linda Lorvig: We have schools that have 500 that are gonna do-
Scott Hammond: Nice
Linda Lorvig: … depending on the, uh, age level. So they visit the school all day on Thursday. We have, uh, what we call our family dinner, you might say-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … um, with committee and authors. Um, we have it catered this year. We usually did potluck, but we're all busy, and we decided we have it catered this
Linda Lorvig: year.
Scott Hammond: Cater that thing. Why not?
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Then Friday they go half days-
Scott Hammond: Okay
Linda Lorvig: … to the schools. And then, uh, Eureka City has been so kind last festival, this every other t- other year, to give free passes to the zoo and the skywalk.
Scott Hammond: Oh, cool.
Linda Lorvig: So Friday afternoon they can go on the skywalk-
Scott Hammond: Hang out
Linda Lorvig: … and the zoo, and then the banquet is Friday night.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: Where, um, it's gonna be at Sequoia Center, County Office of Ed.
Scott Hammond: Perfect.
Linda Lorvig: They get to talk five minutes, and that's it.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Five minutes each.
Scott Hammond: Is there a hook? Is there a hook that-
Linda Lorvig: There is. We have a committee member who actually-
Scott Hammond: There's a t- timer
Linda Lorvig: … figures out a way.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Has a timing or-
Scott Hammond: That's good
Linda Lorvig: … she figures a fun way to do it. Then Saturday, that is the book sale.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: And that is the one that you'll see here. And that's at-
Scott Hammond: Very nice
Linda Lorvig: … the county library.
Scott Hammond: Uh-huh.
Linda Lorvig: And it's from 10:00 to 2:00.
Scott Hammond: Love it.
Linda Lorvig: And it's the autographing and book signing.
Scott Hammond: Very fun.
Linda Lorvig: And then we have offered now they s- can stay the night s-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … on Saturday night, um, so they could visit Humboldt County more if they
Linda Lorvig: want to.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And all this is done with volunteers and fundraising all around Humboldt County.
Scott Hammond: So are all the authors from out of the area, 100%?
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Wow.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. We have one author who's local. We used to have three authors who were local, and they have since moved away, which
Linda Lorvig: one of-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … them is coming back.
Scott Hammond: Oh, nice.
Linda Lorvig: So-
Scott Hammond: Who were they, by the way? Do you know offhand? Do you remember?
Linda Lorvig: The ones that are-
Scott Hammond: The local, the three locals.
Linda Lorvig: It was Mary Nethery-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … Barbara C- um, Curley, and Natasha Wing.
Scott Hammond: Natasha's the one I th- I thought about.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: She's had a cou- a couple of really good-
Linda Lorvig: She's had-
Scott Hammond: Well, they've all had good books, but
Linda Lorvig: She, she's had a lot of her ni- night before-
Scott Hammond: She's memorable. I bet she marketed well, I think.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. She did.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: She did.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And then Pam Service is still here-
Scott Hammond: I know that name
Linda Lorvig: … but she's, um, not writing as much anymore. But she came from back east-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … many years ago for festivals, and she ended up moving here-
Scott Hammond: Huh
Linda Lorvig: … to be… She liked Humboldt County-
Scott Hammond: Oh, that's funny
Linda Lorvig: … so well. Yeah.
Scott Hammond: So why would that be unique? You'd come here, you go, "I love this. This is amazing."
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. She did.
Scott Hammond: You know how many college parents came here to visit and-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … ended up coming?
Linda Lorvig: That's right.
Scott Hammond: And then the kids probably left after they- The folks go, "Hey, we discovered pay dirt here."
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Well, that's what she did. She decided she liked it here.
Scott Hammond: Yeah. So the shout-out then becomes one of where would you send folks? Would you send them to social media, to Facebook to discover more about the events, or would you send them to a website?
Linda Lorvig: We have a website.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And it's authorfest.org.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: And our website's set up with the information of the schools-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … and who's going, the authors that are going to those schools, and just other information. We're working on getting more
Linda Lorvig: photos on.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: Because of our 50-year celebration, we also are working on a history. We've been interviewing, um, former students, administrators, teachers, anybody who has, um, memories-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … of it
Linda Lorvig: and-
Scott Hammond: Oh
Linda Lorvig: … of the festival. And of course, I always tell people my fondest me- I'm co-coordinator with two others, Betty, Becky Jackaminy and Joan
Linda Lorvig: Williams.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: But I-
Scott Hammond: I know Becky.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: She's on the, uh, Women in Health, uh-
Linda Lorvig: Women for Wellness
Scott Hammond: … Wellness, sorry.
Linda Lorvig: Yes.
Scott Hammond: Did we see you the other night at the-
Linda Lorvig: I didn't make it that night
Scott Hammond: … was she at the botanical gardens? She, she was. You w- you were not.
Linda Lorvig: She was there.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: No, I was at-
Scott Hammond: She's terrific
Linda Lorvig: … I was up at Neyland School getting the library ready for the first day of
Linda Lorvig: school.
Scott Hammond: Of course, of course you were. Late night librarian work.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, I was. I was getting that ready, so I had to te- text Becky and say, "I can't
Linda Lorvig: make it."
Scott Hammond: So is that… So in retirement you still do some librarian stuff?
Linda Lorvig: I do, 'cause I volunteer at Neyland School, and I'm on the-
Scott Hammond: Wow
Linda Lorvig: … Neyland School board, so, um-
Scott Hammond: And they're small, so they probably don't have a full-time librarian, right?
Linda Lorvig: No, they just have me volunteering and-
Scott Hammond: Aw
Linda Lorvig: … doing s- so it's kind of fun-
Scott Hammond: That's cool
Linda Lorvig: … because it's volunteer now.
Scott Hammond: And Neyland's a nice community.
Linda Lorvig: It's a wonderful community.
Scott Hammond: Yeah. Do you know the, uh, Rousseau, uh, Rousseau… Last name is Rousseau.
Linda Lorvig: Hmm.
Scott Hammond: Uh, we know the Weeks, so they-
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm
Scott Hammond: … yeah, Dan Weeks built our house.
Linda Lorvig: Dan Weeks and Ed Weeks, I've known his dad.
Scott Hammond: His daddy, yeah, he was legendary.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And then, um, you know Marty Doughty who owns-
Linda Lorvig: Uh-huh
Scott Hammond: … Six Rivers Optical.
Linda Lorvig: Uh-huh.
Scott Hammond: Marty lives up there.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. There's a lot of good people that live up there.
Scott Hammond: Yeah, that's all Tim Mullen Road, right? Is that right?
Linda Lorvig: I'm, I'm off of Berry Road, which is off of Tim Mullen Road.
Scott Hammond: Who-
Linda Lorvig: I look up at Greta's house.
Scott Hammond: You, you would know this. Who is Tim Mullen?
Linda Lorvig: Tim… You're gonna make me get off on this now.
Scott Hammond: I, I've, I've never asked anybody. I figure you might know.
Linda Lorvig: I do know. I know the Mullen family, or part of the family.
Scott Hammond: Are the Mullens up there still?
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Oh.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Joan Williams that's on… coordinator with me, her niece, her, her background, her niece is a
Linda Lorvig: Mullen, her-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … and, uh, t- they're brothers. There was different brothers. I don't know all the history, so I don't wanna speak something I don't know for sure, but Tim Mullen was one of the brothers.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Okay. And he developed that or did something with-
Linda Lorvig: He, he had lots of land. Part of my property was probably part of his property at
Linda Lorvig: some point.
Scott Hammond: Let me sh- let me show America and around the world where that road is. It's right up here.
Linda Lorvig: Okay.
Scott Hammond: So this is Eureka. Neyland's really, like, right up here, right?
Linda Lorvig: Are you off the Freshwater way?
Scott Hammond: Yep, near Freshwater, yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Okay, so you go Freshwater up Neyland Road.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, Maple Creek.
Scott Hammond: So you have the advantage of really amazing weather up there. It can get super hot, right, and beautiful and-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, it was 81 at 10:30 this morning
Scott Hammond: … yeah, rub that in.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Jo- Joni had to go for a walk in Blue Lake today 'cause McKinleyville was 49 and foggy- … like thick fog. So that's why they train bombers and whatever-
Linda Lorvig: That's right
Scott Hammond: … in World War II.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Yeah.
Scott Hammond: So i- there's some stat too, right, Linda, where the, the distance from the coast to the mountains of Neyland, uh-… the, the acceleration of the elevation is higher than anything else on the California coast, where like there's-
Linda Lorvig: Is there-
Scott Hammond: … there's some pr- formula that says-
Linda Lorvig: Oh
Scott Hammond: … it, it gets higher there than, quicker than anywhere else.
Linda Lorvig: You may know more than I do. I know it's about 25- I'm at 2,500 feet at the top-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … of Neyland close.
Scott Hammond: That's where all the antennas are, right?
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Up on top.
Linda Lorvig: Exactly.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, so.
Scott Hammond: Hey, sidetrack.
Linda Lorvig: See, there we are.
Scott Hammond: Chase that rabbit.
Linda Lorvig: That's good. I l- have lots of things I'd wanna talk about. My … But I'm gonna go back to my memory-
Scott Hammond: Please
Linda Lorvig: … of 1995 when the new library was being built, because we do the book sale.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And years before that-
Scott Hammond: Right
Linda Lorvig: … it was in the downstairs of the courthouse in the dungeon.
Scott Hammond: In the dungeon.
Linda Lorvig: And the library was down there in the dark almost. We called it the dungeon.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: So when the new library was built, my husband was project manager for it.
Scott Hammond: Oh, how about that?
Linda Lorvig: So I was on his case every night at dinner time, "Is it gonna be done? Is it gonna be done-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … for the book sale?"
Scott Hammond: Did he have any s- say in the design?
Linda Lorvig: No. Not at all. And he didn't either. He was just project manager.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: But it was the biggest book sale we ever had, because everybody-
Scott Hammond: Oh
Linda Lorvig: … wanted to come in and see the new library.
Scott Hammond: Oh, I bet.
Linda Lorvig: So.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: But the other thing I wanted to-
Scott Hammond: I remember when it opened, it was fancy
Linda Lorvig: … it was 1995, yeah.
Scott Hammond: Mm.
Linda Lorvig: It was a big deal.
Scott Hammond: Right behind-
Linda Lorvig: It was a big-
Scott Hammond: … the Carson Mansion. I mean …
Linda Lorvig: Yep.
Scott Hammond: Interesting location, but y- I guess they d- did, they didn't have a lot of choices for land probably.
Linda Lorvig: No, and they had that land for many years.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: It was just w- trying to get the funding to-
Scott Hammond: Right
Linda Lorvig: … get all the money to build it, you know?
Scott Hammond: They built a beautiful, beautiful piece-
Linda Lorvig: They did, and they-
Scott Hammond: … of architecture
Linda Lorvig: … view of the bay, you know.
Scott Hammond: Yeah, it still looks pretty.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah, it's held-
Linda Lorvig: It does
Scott Hammond: … held well.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: I interrupted you. I'm sorry.
Linda Lorvig: Oh, no. I was just gonna say, 'cause so the festival, um, is, like I said, we're celebrating 50 years, and we have now a committee of about 30
Linda Lorvig: volunteers.
Scott Hammond: Wow.
Linda Lorvig: All volunteers. And I had to bring up, I made this note here when I was reading our history on it. The first festival was $3,000, and they had to fight to get that $3,000
Linda Lorvig: through-
Scott Hammond: Huh
Linda Lorvig: … Friends of the Library, and they had some donations.
Linda Lorvig: They-
Scott Hammond: Bake sales.
Linda Lorvig: Bake sales.
Scott Hammond: Car wash.
Linda Lorvig: Whatever they could think of. And our budget now is $80,000.
Scott Hammond: Wow.
Linda Lorvig: So we have a good committee that works hard-
Scott Hammond: It's grown a little bit
Linda Lorvig: … getting funding and stuff.
Linda Lorvig: But-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … it's, um … The authors that come are amazing.
Scott Hammond: Mm.
Linda Lorvig: They love our Humboldt County and the hospitality.
Scott Hammond: Do they bring a lot of books with them generally?
Linda Lorvig: Well, we, what we do is we-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … the author has to have at least two books in publication.
Scott Hammond: Sure.
Linda Lorvig: And recent, within five years, we don't-
Scott Hammond: Okay
Linda Lorvig: … and so we order the books-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … for the book sale.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And unless, usually occasionally you get an author who brings their self-published book or something to sell.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: Like, but we sell it, and we get a certain profit off of it.
Scott Hammond: Sure.
Linda Lorvig: But we have a committee that's nothing but book sales, so they have to sit down-
Scott Hammond: Oh
Linda Lorvig: … and figure out what books and how many of the books-
Scott Hammond: How many
Linda Lorvig: … they're gonna order from, for each author.
Scott Hammond: That's it. And then so the, there's some pre-bought at, I suppose, for the, uh, the autograph time, right?
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Those will all be at the book sale. Now, some schools will, can purchase books of their own-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … and have 'em for their libraries-
Scott Hammond: Lovely
Linda Lorvig: … and get 'em before the authors come.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Because we encourage the schools, of course, to make sure that those kids know an author's coming. You don't wanna have somebody show up and go, "Oops, who
Linda Lorvig: are you?"
Scott Hammond: Yeah. "Huh?"
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, and that doesn't happen very often.
Scott Hammond: "Who are you?"
Linda Lorvig: We have a great group of schools that k- stay on top of it.
Scott Hammond: As opposed to Superwoman and Superman are coming to town.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: It's gonna be amazing.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Have you seen this book they have? It's so cool.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. They think it's, there's like a star or a movie star or somebody special
Linda Lorvig: coming.
Scott Hammond: It's like publishing … Yeah, it's publishing an album or-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … a bunch.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. When if they've read their book and they realize this is a real person that's-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … writing this book.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And the authors like it because for 25 authors to get together-
Scott Hammond: Hmm
Linda Lorvig: … and they're staying at Carter House.
Scott Hammond: Very nice.
Linda Lorvig: We have them s-
Scott Hammond: Oh, very cool
Linda Lorvig: … there. They like it because they can talk to each other, 'cause you know,
Linda Lorvig: authors-
Scott Hammond: And the Carter's-
Linda Lorvig: … as you probably know, is s- solitude.
Scott Hammond: Huh, and the Carter's just cool.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, it is.
Scott Hammond: It's just down the street from the library.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: They can walk over.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. So.
Scott Hammond: And the-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, so they get a chance to visit and talk with each other, those 25 authors.
Scott Hammond: That's neat.
Linda Lorvig: And they don't every … We are unique in the nation.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: W- we're the only that does like this. There's author festivals-
Scott Hammond: Mm
Linda Lorvig: … where they're in a big stadium or a convention center where they're all sitting around in tables, like we're sitting here maybe.
Scott Hammond: They might have lunch together or something.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: But it's one author.
Linda Lorvig: But not to go to a school, especially these rural schools we have.
Scott Hammond: Right.
Linda Lorvig: Orleans and Witchita.
Scott Hammond: And touch, and touch people and-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … humanity and-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … yeah, that's cool.
Linda Lorvig: So we're, we figure we're, we're very special.
Scott Hammond: I li- I like the … And it excites, um … I would imagine it, it excites staff. They come in, and they touch teachers-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … and administrators and librarians-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … and go, "Hey."
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: You know, uh, reading's cool.
Linda Lorvig: Well, and it's teachers real- it's kinda nice for teachers, for the authors to talk to a student and say, "Hey, when your teacher asks you to write an essay-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … and you have to write it and rewrite it and rewrite it-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … that's what we have to do as authors."
Scott Hammond: That's our book.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah, the-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … that's the process.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, when the editors get ahold of it- …
Linda Lorvig: and start marking through it.
Scott Hammond: And then there's the editing thing.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Marketing's easy. Yeah, no, I remember, um, writing my book and-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … and the hard part was getting, getting the, uh, it all into a PDF that, that transferred from a Word doc to a PDF, 'cause when they transferred over, it would go wonky and do crazy things, and you'd have to go, "Kathy, please hel- … please help." And she'd come back in and fix it and, and, uh, and doctor, doctor the doc a little bit and get it-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … get it all dialed in.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: But … And then there's still the comma that lives in space and does weird stuff, so.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Yeah.
Scott Hammond: What, what else is on your list? What else did you wanna talk about? I got a couple other questions.
Linda Lorvig: Well, um, basically I just wanna encourage anybody to come to the book sale and meet the authors-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … and, um, come to the banquet.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: The banquet at K- uh, Sequoia, we've actually got it where it's $50 for our 50 years.
Scott Hammond: Wow. Wow.
Linda Lorvig: And it's a ban- and it's a good chance to hear the authors speak.
Scott Hammond: Uh-huh.
Linda Lorvig: Like I said, we haveOne of our committee members, Shirley, is great at finding, like you say, finding some way, a stoplight, you know, where it's-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … yellow and, or it's green, and then it's yellow, and then it's, you're off, you
Linda Lorvig: know.
Scott Hammond: It's an old Toastmasters trick.
Linda Lorvig: You're all done. Yeah. So, uh, she, uh…
Linda Lorvig: Exactly.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: It's like a Toastmasters. And, uh, so they speak for five minutes. 'Cause you can imagine, we didn't do that-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … years back. And five au- 25 authors, if you just let them go, it was midnight, 1:00-
Scott Hammond: Oh my gosh
Linda Lorvig: … before we got done.
Scott Hammond: Oh my… And everybody's going, "Why do we come to this-
Linda Lorvig: And the-
Scott Hammond: … and spend money?"
Linda Lorvig: The last two authors on the list were pretty much, "Thank you for having us. Goodbye," 'cause we're tired and we don't want-
Scott Hammond: Do, do yours in a minute, please.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, yeah.
Scott Hammond: So I have-
Linda Lorvig: So-
Scott Hammond: … a funny Toastmasters story for you. I was giving a s- seven to eight-minute speech, and I was so excited about it, and I was so jazzed, and people around the room. And it turned out it was 23 minutes. It's funny now, but no one found any humor in it at the time. They're going, "Um, when will he end?" 'Cause it's the height of-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … rudeness. It's-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … like, end it, bro.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: You could go five minutes and five seconds, but you get, better be pretty-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … you know, dial it in. And that's just good speaking.
Linda Lorvig: Well, you do lose your audience. That's why I think even for the sake of the authors-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … if they keep it at five minutes, um, the people are interested, right?
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: You don't lose them. And some of them have played ukuleles. Some of them had songs.
Scott Hammond: Oh, nice.
Linda Lorvig: Some have had-
Scott Hammond: Props
Linda Lorvig: … props.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. They've had-
Scott Hammond: Pu- puppets
Linda Lorvig: … story- puppets or stories from the kids-
Scott Hammond: Sure
Linda Lorvig: … or pictures the s- the students have written for them.
Linda Lorvig: And-
Scott Hammond: A little theater in there.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah, I love that. So, uh, time and date of that dinner at Sequoia Center?
Linda Lorvig: That's October 18th.
Scott Hammond: That's the-
Linda Lorvig: Is that right?
Scott Hammond: The night of the 18th, yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, October 18th, Friday night at, uh,
Linda Lorvig: 5:30.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: And, uh-
Scott Hammond: 50 bucks buys me a dinner and a whole show.
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: And it, and it probably benefits y'all, right? There's a couple bucks in it for two years-
Linda Lorvig: Well-
Scott Hammond: … from now, or is there-
Linda Lorvig: Well, the banquet doesn't really because we, um… Of course, the authors we pay for.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm, sure.
Linda Lorvig: And we have our special, we have our sponsors.
Scott Hammond: Right.
Linda Lorvig: Humboldt County. Well, I won't try and name them all because-
Scott Hammond: Why not?
Linda Lorvig: … I will miss somebody, I'm sure.
Scott Hammond: Do a shout-out. They're right there in the poster.
Linda Lorvig: Thank you.
Scott Hammond: Let's do it. Let's shout out. So there's some-
Linda Lorvig: Thank you.
Scott Hammond: By the way, let me, let me lead it up to this. There's some killer business people in this community. Would you agree, Nic? That are generous.
Linda Lorvig: There are.
Scott Hammond: We're as weird as any place in America, but the one thing we got is
Scott Hammond: community.
Linda Lorvig: That's why this works.
Scott Hammond: And we could be politically weird and diverse, but there's still that, there's still that element. It, it used to be really, really powerful, and it's less so, but it's still very r- alive, and that is it's a giving community.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And so f- folks are generous of spirit here.
Linda Lorvig: Well-
Scott Hammond: And some of them include…
Linda Lorvig: These are our sponsors, as we say, and it depends on the amount of money, which the more money. So these are the sponsors: North Coast Audiology, Fortuna Rotary Foundation, Schmidbauer Family Foundation-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … First 5 Humboldt, MacLean Foundation, Ros- Rose Perinen Foundation, Humboldt Sponsors-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … Bob and Ginny Canevari Foundation, North Town Books, Christ Episcopal Church.
Scott Hammond: Wow.
Linda Lorvig: And some of them… And of course, the County Office of Ed-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … um, and the county library are in-kind services they give.
Scott Hammond: City of Eureka, as you said, yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And the City of Eureka-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … donating. So-
Scott Hammond: Shout out
Linda Lorvig: … these are certain ones that are our sponsors.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And then we have on down, we have business sponsors.
Scott Hammond: Sure.
Linda Lorvig: That comes in, you know, anywhere from 250, 500,000.
Scott Hammond: Uh-huh.
Linda Lorvig: Then we have Adopt an Author. You can adopt an author for, we call it that-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … for 25, 50, whatever you wanna do. So that's a fundraiser that we do.
Scott Hammond: That's neat.
Linda Lorvig: And then those get… And at some point, our fundraising ladies, who do amazing job with … And they hope the committee will help them-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … of course, find, uh, donations. They will at some point have a poster up the day of the book sale-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … with every, all those that have donated also.
Scott Hammond: Nice. So there's still room to contribute?
Linda Lorvig: Oh, always. Always.
Scott Hammond: And what's that website again?
Linda Lorvig: Authorfest.org.
Scott Hammond: And you can contribute there?
Linda Lorvig: No, we haven't got set up yet for-
Scott Hammond: So you'd have to call a phone number, or…?
Linda Lorvig: There is some information on there of how you can do it, uh, get ahold of the committee people, and, uh, they will pass on the information.
Scott Hammond: All these young people in my family, they make me Venmo on my phone and do
Scott Hammond: things-
Linda Lorvig: I know
Scott Hammond: … and PayPal.
Linda Lorvig: We haven't… It's quite as-
Scott Hammond: Zelle
Linda Lorvig: … quite as set up, I guess.
Linda Lorvig: Um-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … Katie and, um… Oh, shoot. Martha at, uh, Book Lagger, the owners.
Scott Hammond: Oh.
Linda Lorvig: They're on our committee.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: And they do our website.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And, uh, I think they're… See, I'm not good with doing Facebook and stuff, so but I've heard we have Facebook.
Scott Hammond: Is there still a bookstore in Fortuna? Is Fortuna Books still there?
Linda Lorvig: I don't know that they are.
Scott Hammond: I know North Town is very much alive, and Book Lagger-
Linda Lorvig: North Town, North Town is the books that are doing-
Scott Hammond: Tin Can Mailman still there?
Linda Lorvig: Yes.
Scott Hammond: Wow.
Linda Lorvig: But North Town, because they're on here, they're the ones that are taking, doing our book ordering for us. Our book sale committee-
Scott Hammond: Very nice
Linda Lorvig: … is going, and they were doing… 'Cause what they have to do is they have to purchase all the books, and then w- at the end of the festival-
Scott Hammond: Get them shipped here
Linda Lorvig: … they have to ship them back.
Scott Hammond: Oh, and they're experts at that.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah. Shout out North Town.
Linda Lorvig: So North Town Books is-
Scott Hammond: And Book Lagger
Linda Lorvig: … yes. And Book Lagger's helped for-
Scott Hammond: So w- we went to Humboldt. The Tin Can was the coolest place-
Linda Lorvig: Oh, it is
Scott Hammond: … 'cause you could find all-
Linda Lorvig: It was, yeah
Scott Hammond: … all the old, um, every, whatever old book you were looking for, they had it-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … and had them cheap. So h- high level, then I, I wanna come back to your question. Why, why is literacy important to kids and to, and to big kids?
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm. Well, literacy is every, all of us. Like you say, the big, the little. Like, you know, you, it's good for your imagination. It's good for learning. It's, um, good for your jobs.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: You know, you may look at the people… We used to tell the students at South Bay, when reading is important-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … you know, because you, you're gonna have to read at some point to make it, get a job application.
Scott Hammond: Sure.
Linda Lorvig: You're gonna have to read manuals maybe to learn your job.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: You're gonna… And going on to whatever profession you wanna do, you're gonna have to read up on it.
Scott Hammond: Right.
Linda Lorvig: And reading, whether it's for fun-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … but I think everybody should read for fun-
Scott Hammond: Sure
Linda Lorvig: … at some point during your day or week.
Scott Hammond: Or inspiration.
Linda Lorvig: Inspiration.And, uh, literacy, I think it just gives them the confidence-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … too, you know?
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And you see those students who do all this, and the light goes on, and they can read, and you have that ability to say, "You can do anything now."
Scott Hammond: Yeah. And it's interesting 'cause literacy, literacy's taken… I can say it. Has taken a new turn called, uh, electronic literacy-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … uh, with the Kindle-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, yeah
Scott Hammond: … or the iPhone or what- what have you.
Scott Hammond: So, um, I guess that reading counts. I mean, I watch my wife-
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm
Scott Hammond: … just consume Kindle stuff.
Linda Lorvig: Sure. I mean-
Scott Hammond: Um-
Linda Lorvig: … they have to read-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … whatever you're reading. You've got to be able to read it.
Scott Hammond: And I guess there's audiobooks, which is not literacy, but it, it's, it counts 'cause I'm getting the ideas and the-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … imagination and the whatever inspiration that, you know… So I guess we take it how we can get it.
Linda Lorvig: And I think I tell people that I have a Kindle, but I find in the mornings to hold that book-
Scott Hammond: Mm
Linda Lorvig: … and read that book-
Scott Hammond: That's something
Linda Lorvig: … uh, turn the page is fun to do.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And-
Scott Hammond: Is it, uh… So one thing I think of in, as, as my, is my headset okay? I can hear everything. Nick's over there. Nick's doing great.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Um, thanks, Nick, for all you do. The,
Scott Hammond: um, I, I really discover that, uh… I lost my train of thought. There it goes. Hey- … I'm almost 65. I can do that. I can, I can do that now.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Get away with it.
Linda Lorvig: You're-
Scott Hammond: And let's go on to the next question.
Linda Lorvig: There's a reason.
Scott Hammond: No, I was just saying literacy kind of takes a lot of forms today, and it-
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm
Scott Hammond: … it's okay.
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: Whether I'm, whether it's an audiobook or a magazine-
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm
Scott Hammond: … or a literal book or a Kindle.
Linda Lorvig: Right.
Scott Hammond: Um, I was… Oh, my, here's my thought: a newspaper.
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: There was the day-
Linda Lorvig: The day of newspaper.
Scott Hammond: You're… Hitting my mic, too. I never do this. So there's a day where you'd pick up a newspaper-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … and you would read it, and it, it was full of paper, and it had stuff, and it
Scott Hammond: was great.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And you could read the sports page, and the, uh, the Chronicle had the pink pa- uh, the pink-
Linda Lorvig: Uh-huh
Scott Hammond: … section with the entertainment.
Linda Lorvig: Uh-huh. The entertainment.
Scott Hammond: That was cool.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And the green section was sports, and it's like, um, you know, we've lost all that. That lit- that literacy's lost, I think. Well, not completely, but-
Linda Lorvig: If you read it online, I know a lot of people read online.
Linda Lorvig: I-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … um, my son-in-law's from Sweden.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And course, he can get the Swedish newspaper online, you know?
Scott Hammond: And just read, yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And read.
Scott Hammond: What, the morning news in Zurich-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … or wherever, yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah, I love that.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Anything else on your list that you wanted to shout out on or talk about?
Linda Lorvig: Well, I think we've pretty much, you know, I just wanted to, uh, again, go over the fact that-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … schools are preparing.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: They're getting ready. Um, we have what we set up as, uh, five of us. We call ourselves li- liaisons-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … to the sites.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: So we divided the schools up so we can stay in contact. I have six schools, six authors, take that back, and 14 schools-
Scott Hammond: Wow
Linda Lorvig: … that I will stay in contact with and make sure they have everything they need. Is there any problems? There's always something that could come up.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Um, schools have changed some staffing, so we have what we call the site coordinators at each school.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: So we were working with them. And so we like to get the schedule events out to them because they are invited. Anyone is invited to Morris Graves, and that's from 5:00 to, I think, 5:00 to 6:30 or 7:00 we decided.
Scott Hammond: So what, what time, what day is that? Is that the Thursday night?
Linda Lorvig: That's the Wednesday night-
Scott Hammond: Wednesday
Linda Lorvig: … on the 17th.
Scott Hammond: And then you're doing your own gig on Thursday.
Linda Lorvig: And we do our own gig on Thursday. That's right.
Scott Hammond: And then Friday night you're gonna go to the, uh-
Linda Lorvig: The banquet
Scott Hammond: … over at the Sequoia Center-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, yeah
Scott Hammond: … which is on Beret. It's, uh, behind Beret Center.
Linda Lorvig: Behind, mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: Yep.
Linda Lorvig: What was that, the old Franklin School or something like that, I think?
Scott Hammond: I guess it was.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: It was a school back in the day-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … right?
Linda Lorvig: That's what it is, yeah.
Scott Hammond: Wow. And then Saturday's the Author Festival. What, what's the website again?
Scott Hammond: I forget.
Linda Lorvig: Oh, Scott.
Scott Hammond: You're…
Linda Lorvig: Authorfest.org.
Scott Hammond: That's a pretty… It should be an easy one to… I should've wr- You see, I'm not taking notes here.
Linda Lorvig: That's good.
Scott Hammond: Authorfest.org.
Linda Lorvig: Authorfest.org.
Scott Hammond: So let's talk about Humboldt for a minute and your, your participation. So we actually have a, a small quiz that we do, so thanks for coming. The quiz begins. Are you ready? I've never seen anybody look that… She's going, "What are you doing to me?" We're just talking about Author Fest.
Linda Lorvig: Okay.
Scott Hammond: So, so your favorite things in Humboldt. So this'll be easy. This is piece of cake.
Linda Lorvig: My favorite thing.
Scott Hammond: Your favorite thing. So if you had a day off to do whatever-
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm
Scott Hammond: … money wasn't a problem, time wasn't a… What would you go do in Humboldt?
Linda Lorvig: In Humboldt?
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: The zoo.
Scott Hammond: You'd go to the zoo?
Linda Lorvig: Zoo.
Scott Hammond: Oh, nice.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, and the Sky Walk.
Scott Hammond: Why not?
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Have a snack.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: There's food.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Go say hi to the animals.
Scott Hammond: Yep.
Linda Lorvig: Go-
Scott Hammond: The Sky Walk's voted, like, number one thing in wherever.
Linda Lorvig: Whenever a company comes out of town, I take them to the Sky Walk.
Scott Hammond: People love that.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: My wife-
Linda Lorvig: It's fun
Scott Hammond: … gets really nervous up there.
Linda Lorvig: Oh, yeah?
Scott Hammond: It doesn't even move that much. I like to make it-
Linda Lorvig: You're the one of those that bounces.
Scott Hammond: I'm a bouncer, man. See if we can get this thing moving here. She's going, "Stop."
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: Okay.
Scott Hammond: Question number two. So where do you go for coffee?
Linda Lorvig: I'm not a coffee drinker.
Scott Hammond: Oh.
Linda Lorvig: But, uh, if I was gonna, Ramone's, of course.
Scott Hammond: Okay, or tea.
Linda Lorvig: And people tell me whenever they say, "Why don't we meet for coffee?"
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And I say, "Well, I don't drink coffee." Not because, I just don't care for the taste of co- coffee.
Scott Hammond: That's fine.
Linda Lorvig: But I say, "Well, I can have hot chocolate."
Scott Hammond: There you go.
Linda Lorvig: So I would go to Ramone's.
Scott Hammond: Oh.
Linda Lorvig: And I hear other people, because of their coffee, is-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … would go to Ramone's.
Scott Hammond: Their coffee's quite good, yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Okay.
Scott Hammond: The hot chocolate source, though, is Dick Taylor.
Linda Lorvig: Now you're right.
Scott Hammond: Oh, weird. I hap- happen to have the logo right here.
Scott Hammond: Hey.
Linda Lorvig: Oh.
Scott Hammond: They're not really sponsors, I just like… They're great people.
Linda Lorvig: Well, actually, Dick Taylor, um, we're waiting. Um, hopefully they will. Last festival they donated, um, a chocolate bar for each author. We have a bag-
Scott Hammond: Love it
Linda Lorvig: … that we give the authors-
Scott Hammond: Oh, that's cool
Linda Lorvig: … with, like, when you go to a conference-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … and you get all your information and stuff. So Dick Taylor has donated chocolate bars to the authors.
Scott Hammond: Perfect. Here's a real taste of Humboldt.
Linda Lorvig: Yes.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: That's, that's a favorite at our house. All right, number three.Food. Where do you go to dinner? You and your husband get to go anywhere you want. Where do you, where do you go?
Linda Lorvig: Larpin's.
Scott Hammond: Larpin's. You know, Larpin's been mentioned a lot. Have, would you… Are you writing this down? We have little hashtags. Larpin wins a lot of these.
Linda Lorvig: Is that what it is?
Scott Hammond: Yeah, Larpin's very popular. It reminds me, Jodi and I haven't been for a while. I wanna go, 'cause they're just… The food, the vibe, the whole thing.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: She had jazz on the other morning and, and she goes, "Sounds like Larpin, huh?"
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: I go-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … "We gotta go." Where, where have we… We, 'cause we live up there. We're up by the airport, so.
Linda Lorvig: Okay, so you're closer to it.
Scott Hammond: Larpin's eight minutes from our… 10 minutes maybe.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Well, obviously, that would probably be… The distance may be different, and if we were gonna go closer, it would be somewhere
Linda Lorvig: different.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Carter House or Sea Grill. But-
Scott Hammond: Oh, yeah
Linda Lorvig: … uh, for number one, if a company comes from out of town, it, Larpin's is a different-
Scott Hammond: It's an experience.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: We have a daughter in Boise, and, uh, they have some friends. Uh, their names are the Kitchens, and they were traveling through and they stayed in Trinidad, got to go to Larpin. And they go, "This is as good as anything on, in the whole coast."
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: She, they said this is… And they're, they're wealthy and well-to-do, and they've ate ev- everywhere. And so, you know-
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm
Scott Hammond: … the French Laundry or whatever it is in Calistoga.
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: They go-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … "This is every bit as good as any place amazing," and I have to agree.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Yeah, it's fun to go there.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: So what do you see are opportunities going forward with literacy and, uh, Humboldt and education and, um, the things you're doing? What, what, what do you see now? What do you wanna see happen in the next, I don't know, generation or so? Or maybe f- or how about five years?
Linda Lorvig: Five years.
Scott Hammond: Another festival or two.
Linda Lorvig: Well, let's see. I'm gonna be 75 in a month, so-
Scott Hammond: Wow. Happy-
Linda Lorvig: … let's see how many years ahead we'll have
Scott Hammond: … happy birthday.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah. Well, of course, the festival is, hopefully keeps going and going like this.
Scott Hammond: Sure.
Linda Lorvig: Um, well, you know, we talk about that sometimes at school. Like I said, I'm on the school board at Neyland, and, uh, we hope to see education-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … s- sta- go where the kids are learning more, not just digitally-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … but hands-on-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … and reading and writing.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: Um, I think writing has become kind of lost, but I think it's coming
Linda Lorvig: back-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … from what I hear.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And so yeah, you wanna see those students
Linda Lorvig: enjoy-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … education.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: And it doesn't mean… We used to always… I was, School to Career used to be a program that I was part of for Humboldt
Linda Lorvig: County. And School to Career didn't als- necessarily mean you had to be preparing for the big university, 'cause that scares some kids.
Scott Hammond: Sure.
Linda Lorvig: But it's preparing for whatever you wanna do.
Scott Hammond: Right.
Linda Lorvig: And that-
Scott Hammond: Trades, whatever
Linda Lorvig: … that means, and you need to learn that in education first, you know.
Scott Hammond: Sure.
Linda Lorvig: Your elementary, junior high, high school.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And-
Scott Hammond: That's good
Linda Lorvig: … move on.
Scott Hammond: Yeah. So service industry, trades-
Linda Lorvig: Yes
Scott Hammond: … university, whatever.
Linda Lorvig: Yes.
Scott Hammond: Foreign Legion.
Linda Lorvig: Foreign Legion. The French Foreign Legion.
Scott Hammond: Military, I, it's, uh, it all counts.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: That's right. That's right.
Scott Hammond: I love it, and I, I think it's a g- a great, a great thing to be part of. So let's talk about your legacy. What would, what do you wanna be remembered for, Linda, and what's it say on your
Scott Hammond: gravestone?
Linda Lorvig: Boy, my legacy. I can remember at South Bay School when I retired, um, we had built a new library, and I said I wouldn't retire until I at least had five years in that new library.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: I had seven.
Scott Hammond: Oh, wow.
Linda Lorvig: So then somebody said, "Oh, maybe we should name it the Linda Lorvig Memorial Library." And I said, "Well, not yet."
Scott Hammond: Not yet. Not quite yet. Maybe later.
Linda Lorvig: But I hope, you know, it's, you hope you have touched a lot of students and, um-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … and you hope that they got something and maybe that-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … reading and literacy, I was a little part-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … of them being readers.
Scott Hammond: Right.
Linda Lorvig: And, uh, you just hope in your legacy, I think overall that you're-
Scott Hammond: Hmm
Linda Lorvig: … remembered as a good person.
Scott Hammond: Love it.
Linda Lorvig: That you did something for the community.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: Not as much as some, but maybe in my way.
Scott Hammond: Amen.
Linda Lorvig: You know?
Scott Hammond: Yeah, no. I think you lean into that which you're, you're given, and I, I love that 'cause I think it's that, that, that little, those little interpersonal connection relationship things-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … uh, is what this is all about.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: You know, it's not, not everybody gets to stand in the stadium and, and be, you
Scott Hammond: know, Frank Sinatra or-
Linda Lorvig: That's right
Scott Hammond: … Tony Robbins or, you know, an amazing wh- you know… I'm trying to think of a good… Taylor Swift.
Linda Lorvig: Taylor. Oh.
Scott Hammond: There.
Linda Lorvig: I don't know.
Scott Hammond: Everybody gets to be Tay.
Linda Lorvig: That's scary.
Scott Hammond: Yeah. But I, I think it starts with that organic touch, and I think-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … I, I love it when you say, "Hey, I think, think I made a difference in some kids' lives." And now they're adults and parents-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … and grandparents.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And, um, gee, what if they were teaching literacy to their kids and passion
Scott Hammond: for reading and/or whatever and feeding their kids' passions?
Linda Lorvig: Well, and that's what you do. I know there's, there's some students that I've met that have gone on to teaching.
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Linda Lorvig: And of course, others. But yeah, just that little bit of knowing-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … that you did something, and I think that's why when I retired, it took me a few years to just kind of settle down and-
Scott Hammond: Mm
Linda Lorvig: … and then, uh, going to Neyland School was my way of saying, "I'm not done with you guys yet."
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: You know? I still wanna be part of your-
Scott Hammond: Love it
Linda Lorvig: … reading, you know-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … even though I'm v- volunteering once a week.
Scott Hammond: Part of your life.
Linda Lorvig: Part of my life.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: Those young ones.
Scott Hammond: I love it. Well, I appreciate you coming. Uh, let's do one more shout-out. That website one more time in case people missed it.
Linda Lorvig: authorfest.org.
Scott Hammond: .org, and you can go on that and find it on the World Wild or-
Linda Lorvig: World
Scott Hammond: … on the web, on the w-
Linda Lorvig: The www.
Scott Hammond: On… Man, I, one clumsy podcaster. I'm hitting my mic and can't say things.
Linda Lorvig: Well, I feel better because this is new to me.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: I'll see. I've-
Scott Hammond: No, and we- we're gonna get you copies, and you can send it out everywhere, so.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Um, yeah. Look forward to being there. Sh- I'm sure my wife and I are gonna come and buy some books for the grandkids, and-
Linda Lorvig: We'd love that. And that's what we tell people. If you don't have kids at home anymore, look at those grandkids. Look atNeighbor kids, whatever, or just come to meet the authors
Linda Lorvig: and-
Scott Hammond: Come support them
Linda Lorvig: … buy a few books for us and support us.
Scott Hammond: What a great thing to have, like, organic people from elsewhere come, and we can shake their hands and hang out.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, yeah.
Scott Hammond: So Saturday is the event, 10:00 to 12:00. I'm sorry, 10:00 to 2:00.
Linda Lorvig: 10:00 to 2:00.
Scott Hammond: And that's at the library.
Linda Lorvig: At the county li- main library.
Scott Hammond: Right. At the foot of whatever street. Is it M, N, O? It's one of those.
Linda Lorvig: Oh, you're gonna-
Scott Hammond: It's behind the Ingomar on the Car-
Linda Lorvig: It's behind the Ingomar.
Scott Hammond: It's behind the Carson Mansion-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … if you miss it.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And then Friday night is the other event.
Linda Lorvig: That's the banquet at the Sequoia Center.
Scott Hammond: Okay.
Linda Lorvig: The County Office of Ed.
Scott Hammond: Can't miss that. 50 bucks buys you-
Linda Lorvig: And $50 for dinner and beer and wine will be on
Linda Lorvig: the table.
Scott Hammond: Really?
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Included with the 50 bucks?
Linda Lorvig: Yes.
Scott Hammond: Hear that beer-
Linda Lorvig: It is
Scott Hammond: … and wine people? Um, that's a bargain.
Linda Lorvig: And entertainment.
Scott Hammond: And-
Linda Lorvig: You hear the authors.
Scott Hammond: Oh, that'll be fun.
Linda Lorvig: And you hear Becky and Joan and I first.
Scott Hammond: Goodness.
Linda Lorvig: Very briefly.
Scott Hammond: You gotta speak briefly. You have five minutes.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: There's a red, red card.
Linda Lorvig: Five minutes for the three of us together.
Scott Hammond: Okay, got it. Okay. And then Thursday night's your own thing,
Scott Hammond: right?
Linda Lorvig: Yes.
Scott Hammond: And then Wednesday night's…
Linda Lorvig: At the Morris Graves.
Scott Hammond: At the Morris Graves.
Linda Lorvig: Um, and everyone is invited if you wanna come meet an author S- and September 7th, I think-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … to the Oc- October 19th. I, I know I'm gonna be in trouble. Here it is. It says Morris Graves, September 7th through October 5th. They're gonna do, on the Saturdays, Arts
Linda Lorvig: Alive.
Scott Hammond: Oh.
Linda Lorvig: And then September 7th through October 27th, the illustrations will be at Morris Graves downstairs.
Scott Hammond: Oh.
Linda Lorvig: And those are illustrations either the authors have done themselves for their books-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … or their illustrators.
Scott Hammond: Imagine they would have a few books there to sign too or to sell.
Linda Lorvig: Uh, I don't think they will.
Scott Hammond: Maybe not. Okay.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, no, not during that.
Scott Hammond: But they could send people on to their websites to go get 'em.
Linda Lorvig: And that website is?
Scott Hammond: Um-
Scott Hammond: … I forget now.
Linda Lorvig: Authorfest.
Scott Hammond: Authorfest.org.
Linda Lorvig: There you go. Good try.
Scott Hammond: Authorfest. Um, one last thing on the Morris Graves.
Linda Lorvig: Mm-hmm.
Scott Hammond: So they were all the Carnegie, Carnegie, Carnegie-
Linda Lorvig: Carnegie
Scott Hammond: … Library chain that he funded.
Linda Lorvig: That's right.
Scott Hammond: 'Cause he was a steel magnate, right?
Linda Lorvig: He was.
Scott Hammond: He was a steel guy.
Linda Lorvig: Yes, he was, and he had m- millions. And back in those days, millions was-
Scott Hammond: Was billions.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: And they built these libraries in rural America-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … over decades, right?
Linda Lorvig: Yes, they did.
Scott Hammond: And I, I wanna say over 2,000. There's a lot of 'em.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, I'm not sure, but the Carnegie… And you know the Carnegie was our library well before my time here.
Scott Hammond: It was. Oh, that was your library.
Linda Lorvig: And then when they went to the county library-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … then Carnegie-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … became… That's where the staff and administration for the library was.
Scott Hammond: Oh, really?
Linda Lorvig: And then of course when we built the new library, everybody got to go together, and then it became the Morris Graves Art.
Scott Hammond: That's a beautiful muse-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … mu- it's a beautiful building.
Linda Lorvig: It is. It's, the acoustics in there, if you ever go in there for music-
Scott Hammond: Yeah
Linda Lorvig: … things, is wonderful.
Scott Hammond: When I worked at the Tri-City newspaper, when there was newspapers-
Linda Lorvig: Tri-City. I forgot about.
Scott Hammond: Ron Pileggi. Hi, hi, Ron. Ron helped Sally Ar- Arno- Arnott? Is that how you say her name?
Linda Lorvig: Uh-huh.
Scott Hammond: And that committee fundraised for that and buy the bricks for 100 bucks.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah, yeah.
Scott Hammond: And they did that whole thing for, you know, a, a few years, and they re- really restored that beautifully.
Linda Lorvig: They did.
Scott Hammond: It's a neat, it's a neat building.
Linda Lorvig: That's why it's another way for our authors that come to see one of our first
Linda Lorvig: jewels-
Scott Hammond: Mm-hmm
Linda Lorvig: … is to be there.
Scott Hammond: That'll be a cool place to send folks. That'll be neat.
Linda Lorvig: Yeah.
Scott Hammond: Well, listen, thanks, Linda, for coming.
Linda Lorvig: Thank you, Scott, for having me.
Scott Hammond: Yeah.
Linda Lorvig: I enjoyed this.
Scott Hammond: I look forward to coming out and supporting that and everybody else too, and so, uh-
Linda Lorvig: Yeah
Scott Hammond: … appreciate you.
Linda Lorvig: Thank you.
Scott Hammond: Thank you.
Linda Lorvig: All right.