This game is called Guess What Year the Above Picture Was Taken.

Let us set the stage.

Mike dug up the picture from the recesses of the internet. There you see Magnus holding down the store. It could easily have been taken last week—or maybe not?

Hint: See those t-shirts hanging on the wall? Mike, who's been at the Library for eight years, doesn't recognize them. Hint: That framed painting to the right of Magnus' head? Where's that from? Hint: Notice how the lawn is resplendent.

You have five days to email us with a guess. After five days, the person who comes the closest wins XYX. (Hint: Perhaps the poodle on the deck holds the key?....) 

Now for the digest!
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NOTE: THIS ISSUE OF THE DIGEST IS SENT TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO GET THE DIGEST PLEASE GO HERE!

CONGRATULATIONS TO TWO OF OUR FILM MAKERS.
JADE AKSNES & JESSE KREITZER

PUSHING NIGHT AWAY - Oscar-qualifying.
From Friday July 27th through August 2nd, JADE AKSNES' “Pushing Night Away” had a one week Oscar-qualifying theatre screening at Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles, which will make the film eligible for award consideration for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

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BLACK CANARIES BY JESSE KREITZER - Selected for 7th Annual National PBS Online Film Festiva! Starting July 16, viewers are encouraged to watch, vote and share their favorites. Two awards will be given out as part of the PBS Online Film Festival: "The Most Popular Film", based on film views and social media likes, and the "Juried Prize" selected by a distinguished panel of eight jury members including Simon Kilmurry, Executive Director of the International Documentary Association and Pam Aguilar, Senior Director of Programming and Development for PBS.

(1) PBS Website: https://www.pbs.org/filmfestival/2018-festival/black-canaries/
(2) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PBSFilmFest/videos/1673031992809368/
(3) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOFZf0C3vI&t=10s

UPCOMING LIBRARY SCREENINGS AND FILM EVENTS!

In search of Bern Porter 

Film maker Scott Hug recently stopped by the Library to go through our archives looking for items by and about Bern Porter. We had a wonderful time and were able to find many items of interest. Our conversations of course meandered back in time to Anderson Canyon and how Bern Porter and George Leite both were involved in publishing the Circle Magazine at the time. Magnus mentioned that Goerge's wife, Virginia, had visited the Library a couple of years ago. Scott nearly jumped out of his seat and asked "Any chance we can find her?"

We did find Nancy and after Scott had interviewed her he said:

"Nancy remembered what Bern was like and how he interacted with the 'insiders' and how he was very much an introvert and an outsider. She's the only one I’ve interviewed so far that actually knew Bern while he was an active scientist at Berkeley working on the bomb in his early 30s and publishing Henry and the others!"

We look forward to Scott's film about Bern Porter!

The Library is proud to announce our first audiobook, "Romancing the Sur" written and read by friend and Big Sur local Linda Sonrisa Jones. 

The book tells of the passion it takes to embrace the chaos, impermanence and wild beauty of life on the Big Sur coast.

Sit back, relax, and listen to it HERE.

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In publishing news, Penguin announced that Jack Kerouac's novels will have a new look starting in August.

The abstract covers were designed by Tom Etherington of Penguin Press and feature the works of abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline.

According to Etherington, the artwork is intended to capture "the experience of reading Kerouac" rather than illustrating a particular scene or character.

We think they're pretty cool.

With Amazon seemingly taking over every conceivable aspect of our lives* some folks are worried that libraries will be the next entity to become absorbed by Jeff Bezos' insatiable throbbing Leviathan.

But don't "turn out the lights" (to quote the Bee Gees) just yet, argues Lance Ulanoff. PHEW!

UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE LIBRARY

See you next month!
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ALL UPCOMING EVENTS!