On Wednesday, January 13 at 10:30 a.m., The Porter Memorial Library opens its 2016 Meet The Author series with Gary Griggs.
Gary Griggs is the Director, Institute of Marine Sciences, and Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at UC Santa Cruz as well as a regular contributor to the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
In 2008, Gary was asked to write a bi-weekly column, “Our Ocean Backyard” for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. He will speak about his book, Our Ocean Backyard: Collected Essays. It is a collection of 170 columns exploring curious ocean questions as well as other topics that are of interest to all of us who choose to live so close to the California coast.
For example, should we worry about tsunamis here on the central coast? How did Yellow Bank Beach, Davenport Landing, Greyhound Rock, Castle Beach and Black Point get their names? Gary explains why the sea behaves as it does, while bringing our coastal history and landscape into perspective.
The Meet the Author programs are informal coffee hours around the fireplace where local authors discuss their works, answer questions from the audience and autograph copies of their books. The programs are free and open to the public. They are scheduled for the second Wednesday of January, February, March and April at 10:30 a.m. Refreshments and coffee will be served with the Ugly Mug providing the coffee. The library is located at 3050 Porter Street. Limited parking is available behind the library. Enter from Soquel Drive into the Bagelry parking lot and drive through to the left.
For more information, call the library at 475-3326 during library hours: Monday-Friday 12-4 and Saturday 10am -2pm, or check out the library website at: www.porterml.org