Books Between Bites explores 'Flea-Market America' Jan. 16
On Thursday, Jan. 16, the next Books Between Bites program will explore "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America" by Maureen Stanton.
The program will be noon to 1 p.m. in the large Founders Room at the Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave.
You have seen "Antiques Roadshow," "American Pickers" and "Storage Wars," but "Killer Stuff" reveals a more passionate, personal, and insightful look into the buying and selling of American antiques. Presenter Daniel Russo, a lifelong collector and newbie antiques dealer, will discuss the book and use its lens to examine evolutionary changes in the local antiques market.
The program is free and reservations are not required. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunch, or purchase food at the library's Chapters Coffeehouse & Café
Call (630) 406-8005 and pick up your order when you arrive
For information, call Becky Hoag at (630) 482-9157 or email info@booksbetweenbites.com.
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On Feb 20, local business adviser Ellen Huxtable will discuss the graphic novel memoir "They Called Us Enemy" by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and Harmony Becker.
In February 1942, Executive Order 9066 forced Japanese Americans from west coast communities into remote barbed wire camps. This book is actor George Takei's story of his childhood experiences and contemporary reflections.
"I know what concentration camps are," George Takei, the actor-activist turned social media rock star, tweeted to his nearly 3 million followers. "I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again."
Takei was speaking of the immigrant detention facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border. Takei has no patience for muddied political semantics. While a small boy, during World War II, the Los Angeles-born Takei and his family were kept behind barbed wire for four years, in what became known as "Japanese internment camps" - another term that he cannot abide.
Takei, still best known for playing Sulu in the "Star Trek" franchise, has turned his experience into a riveting graphic novel-memoir. "They Called Us Enemy," co-written with Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and artist Harmony Becker, is a necessary testament to what stoked fear and federal racism looked like eight decades ago within America's own borders. The book poignantly paints how Takei's father, a longtime U.S. resident, and Takei's mother, a Sacramento-born American citizen, suddenly were declared an "alien enemy" by a presidential proclamation that doomed thousands shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Ellen Huxtable is a local business adviser who is researching and writing a children's book based on the oral history her parents shared of their personal wartime experiences at the Manzanar Relocation Center in California.