Annual Meeting features Laura O. Foster
Date, Location
US Bank Room, Central Library
Light refreshments available, wine tasting
About the Event
Just sit back and relax as Laura O. Foster presents us with an exploration of Portland. In her five walking books, readers take long walks through urban neighborhoods: meandering through streetcar districts, leafy residential streets and parks, up and down stairways, beyond dead-ends, along river beaches, atop volcanic peaks and anywhere else a curious person would delight in discovering.
Laura crafts routes designed to take urban walkers to places others often miss. Her walks weave geology, architecture, history, ethnobotany and horticulture into rich stories about our beautiful Northwest places.
Of course, every walk passes through a local commercial district where coffee, beer, books, and other joys of urban exploring will be found. She designs her routes so that each one makes for a small urban holiday, good for locals and visitors, too, who want to get beyond the tourist highlights of one of the nation’s most walkable cities.
Ready, set, walk!
After her presentation, Laura will answer your questions and her books will be available for purchase. She has generously offered to donate a percentage of each sale to the Friends.
- Portland Hill Walks: Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods
- Portland City Walks: Twenty Explorations in and around Town
- Walk There!
- Images of America: Lake Oswego
- The Portland Stairs Book
And for more information and inspiration you can read Laura’s blog. Finally, check out Northwest Audio Tours to find out more about Laura’s latest works in progress.
Light Refreshments, Wine Tasting
Light refreshments available including a generous donation from Dumas Station, the small family winery of Friend of the Library, Ali Harvey. Ali will be pouring Cow Catcher Red, a blend from their award winning estate vineyard in Walla Walla, WA.
