Great authors and their books, good food, and exceptional company might best describe the annual Breakfast with the Authors hosted by the Friends of the Racine Public Library. Literary enthusiasts will want to mark their calendars for the 23rd annual Breakfast being held on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Roma Lodge, 7130 Spring St. in Racine. This wonderfully intimate event features a fabulous breakfast with fellow book lovers and some of the region's best authors. Each author will offer a short presentation and will be available for book signings. Admission to the breakfast is $12.50 for Friends of the Library members and $14.50 for the general public. Reservations may be made by calling 262.681.2381 on or before Friday, October 30.
These featured authors will be in attendance at this year's Breakfast:
Joan Bennett - Where Have All the Cheese Factories gone?
Joan Bennett is a retired Advanced Placement Biology teacher, who taught for 34 years in the Racine Unified Schools. She graduated with a BA in Biology and French from UW-Platteville and holds a Masters in Professional Development from UW-Whitewater. Her written work has appeared in American Girl magazine, Biology Teacher magazine, and the Muir View. She also wrote for the environmental newsletter the Root River Ripple and the newsletter for the Biology Association of Racine and Kenosha. In addition, she was awarded first place in the Wisconsin Humanities Council "Barn Again" essay contest in 2003. In 2004, she retired and began family genealogy research at the Iowa County Historical Society. Five years later, as a member the Historical Society's Cheese Factory Committee, she completed and published the 400+ page book, Where Have all the Cheese Factories Gone?, a history of the cheese factories and creameries of Iowa County.
Sister Dolores Enderle - A Time To Grow
A Time To Grow, the third volume of the history of the Dominicans of Racine from 1901-1964, narrates the steady growth and endured hardships of the community after its foundation in 1862. This well-written and engaging study highlights the lives of the ordinary sisters who risked all trying to teach the influx of German immigrants flocking to America in the early nineteenth century and who struggled to observe the many regulations and customs handed down from a lingering period of monasticism. The work is a remarkable collection of letters, oral histories, diocesan documents, and personal information.
Dolores Enderle, a Racine Dominican, received her doctorate in English from Ball State University. As teacher and administrator, she served her religious community in Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Mississippi. She taught at Dominican College in Racine, UW-Parkside, and Siena Heights University before becoming president of St. Catharine College in Springfield, Kentucky. She has served as vice-president of her community and has worked for Sacred Heart Southern Missions in northern Mississippi. Since 2002, she has been researching community history and working on community projects.
Delores Gapanowicz - The Finchley House Mystery
In the early 1980's, Delores Gapanowicz began writing a mystery for her elementary students in the hopes of providing them with a story that wouldn't bore them to sleep. Her experiences with the short mysteries she read to her classes were that most of the kids had them solved by the middle of the book and lost interest in the rest of the tale. Little did she imagine that the story she told would become a published book appearing at international book fairs. The Finchley House Mystery tells the story of the attempts of two young boys and their sisters to solve the mystery behind peculiar happenings at an abandoned home in the small town of Green Hills.
Gapanowicz graduated from UW-Madison with a BA in Art History, from Dominican College with a BFA, and from Carthage College with a major in Elementary Education. She lived for two years in Uganda, East Africa, teaching literature and art to young girls as a lay teacher for the Verona Fathers, a Catholic Mission organization. Upon her return she taught elementary education in Kenosha, WI, until her retirement. Gapanowicz also published The Mayor's Daughter in 2007, the story of her parents' lives in Eastern Europe and their emigration to Canada and the USA.
Jerry Rannow - This One'll Killya
Jerry Rannow began his show business career as a professional actor, making the transition to writer-producer on many network television series, including Welcome Back, Kotter; Happy Days; Love, American Style; Room 222; Love Boat; All in the Family; Eight is Enough; and Head of the Class - a total of over 200 produced TV comedy scripts. He has won exclusive contracts to develop television series with the ABC Network, Columbia Pictures, Twentieth Century-Fox and the CTV Network in Toronto where he received a Canadian Emmy nomination. Jerry has taught comedy writing at the University of Wisconsin, Carthage College, DePaul University and the USC Film School. A lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, Jerry wrote the ABC Movie of the Week, Guide for the Married Woman, as well as nine TV pilots and eight screenplays. After a thirty-year career in Hollywood, Jerry has returned to his hometown of Racine, WI, to write books. His first two, Writing Television Comedy and Surviving Hollywood, are available in bookstores and at Amazon.com. He has recently published his first comedy-detective novel, This One'll Killya, available at Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble and Jerryrannow.com.
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