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By PIPER JONES CASTILLO, Times Staff Writer
Published October 7, 2007

Appearances

Nancy A. Anderson (What Should I Read Aloud? A Guide to 200 Best-Selling Picture Books), 4:30 p.m. Friday, Barnes and Noble South Tampa, 213 N Dale Mabry Highway; noon and 6 p.m. Saturday, Barnes and Noble Carrollwood, 11802 N Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa.

Events

As part of its Presidential Series, Eckerd College presents "Freedom Riders: The Peacemaker and the Warrior," at 7:30 p.m. Monday, in Wireman Chapel, on the Eckerd campus at 4200 54th Ave. S, St. Petersburg. Two of the original Freedom Riders, Ben Cox and Hank Thomas, will share their stories, and Ray Arsenault (Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice), will lead the discussion and hold a signing.

Also at Eckerd College, as part of the Academy of Senior Professionals Forum Series, Roy Peter Clark (Writing Tools) will discuss "Creating a Nation of Writers: How We All Can Help," at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Lewis House. For information, go to www.eckerd.edu.

The Humanities Institute at the University of South Florida presents readings from and discussion of the anthology Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary Poets from 1951-1977, by editor William Walsh and poets Erin Belieu, Alison Eir Jenks and Reginald Shepherd, at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the TECO Room, College of Education, USF, 4200 E Fowler Ave., Tampa.

Freda Gower Ward (Would You Rather Be the Pigeon or the Statue?) will discuss humorous writing at the meeting of the St. Petersburg Group of the Florida Writers Association, 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The meeting, free and open to the public, will be held at the West Community Library at St. Petersburg College, 6700 Eighth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. For information, e-mail Ward at fredagowerward@earthlink.net">href="mailto:fredagowerward@earthlink.net" mce_href="mailto:fredagowerward@earthlink.net">fredagowerward@earthlink.net

As part of the Writers at the University Series at University of Tampa, journalist and nonfiction writer Joe MacKall (Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish) will hold a reading at 8 p.m. Thursday in Reeves Theater in Vaughn Center, 401 W Kennedy Blvd. MacKall is co-director of creative writing at Ashland University in Ohio and co-founder of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. For information, go to www.ut.edu.

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