Want a very good read?
Then how about this inspiring story: A community comes together to have fun reading and encourage young people to choose up books by making it fun to do.
That’s the plot line for the Great Valley Bookfest presenting its tenth chapter today, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley anchored by Bass Pro Shops.
Greater than 50 authors shall be on the free event to debate their books in addition to share the ability of reading and writing. While they shall be offering their books on the market, the Great Valley Bookfest is greater than only a likelihood to satisfy and greet authors.
It’s designed to encourage young and old to read and even writer books.
Things start with a ten a.m. with hourly Writers’ Nook presentations of all the things from the right way to publish a book, where inspiration comes from, to the nuts and bolts of writing.
There’s also a poet’s corner with reading from 10 a.m. to three p.m.
There may also be free activities for children including a kids’ zone complete with bonce houses, carnival style games and more.
The center of the bookfest is Authors’ Alley where 50 authors offer their books on the market or just speak about writing with people who drop by.
There are also food and other vendors.
The Bookfest not only speaks volumes concerning the commitment of organizers and participants to reading and literacy nevertheless it underscores the valley’s tremendous resources and commitment to raise lives through the ability of reading.
Some may read the previous paragraph and sneer. You realize the spiel. The Northern San Joaquin Valley is supposedly a spot absent of culture and literacy because its roots are firmly planted in agriculture.
Fans of William Stonehill Saroyan will disagree. The prolific Fresno writer who gave us “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” is just considered one of quite a few authors inspired by the San Joaquin Valley including Manteca High graduate William Kent Krueger who has had several books on the Recent York Times Best Sellers List.
And if anyone disses those that toil on farms and factories of agriculturally wealthy valleys as being dolts, let’s not forget John Steinbeck who hailed from Salinas and spent much of his life within the Northern San California including a stint working within the Spreckels Sugar refinery that after dominated the Manteca skyline.
Still when Manteca builder Toni Raymus returned from a visit to Decatur where she got here across a bookfest that covered virtually all the downtown of that Georgia community and commenced circulating the thought of staging a bookfest in Manteca, the nearly universal response was, “what, a bookfest in Manteca?” with greater than a number of silently wondering whether she was joking.
Her response: Why not?
There’s little doubt much of the San Joaquin Valley has its challenges.
But that said, the valley will not be a desert with regards to literature or culture.
In reality you would argue that the Northern San Joaquin Valley is the right setting for not only a Bookfest but to strengthen the written word.
The Bookfest site is half-hour from Livermore Lab and an hour from the Silicon Valley that’s populated with a few of the world’s best tech minds with lots of their collaborating colleagues residing this side of the Altamont Pass. It’s on the epicenter of 1,000,000 people inside a 30-mile radius who labor in a wide selection of professions and may find inspiration in a few of the most diverse landscape and communities of individuals on the planet. If the US is the melting pot, and California the golden ingredient then the Northern San Joaquin Valley is where you can find the largest nugget. It’s not refined per se nevertheless it continues to be gold.
The Great Valley Bookfest in a way can be a solution to remind us that not only does the Northern San Joaquin Valley have so much to supply but that the written world is alive and kicking here.
It’ll provide you with a likelihood to grasp what’s making Manteca a bestseller to the individuals who elect to maneuver here every 12 months.
There’s a wealth of talented people living here and much more people committed to creating lives higher.
The Bookfest can be unimaginable to stage if that wasn’t the case.
For more information on the Great Valley Bookfest go to greatvalleybookfest.org
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com