Burro Bill and Me by Edna Caulkins Price at Copper Mountain Community Center
November’s Book Club selection is Burro Bill and Me by Edna Calkins Price. It’s the true story of a nurse who falls in love with a hobo during the Great Depression and follows him to Death Valley to start a life of freedom. When Death Valley becomes too crowded with tourists, they buy a pack of burros and head off for the Arizona strip district on a 3 year adventure. Our meeting place will be the Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center at 65336 Winters Rd. Twentynine Palms, CA. It is 4 miles East of Border Rd. on the left hand side. When driving north on Border, coming from Joshua Tree, look for the Winters sign on the left hand side of the road and a large white Copper Mountain Mesa sign on the right. Can’t wait to hear what you think about this one!
Monday, November 3, 2014, 7PM
Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center
65336 Winters Road
Twentynine Palms, CA
This is the second meeting of Kip’s Desert Book Club.
See Book Club homepage for more information on this monthly gathering
Every month from October 2014 until March 2020, Kip’s Desert Book Club gathered on the first Monday of the month at 7:00 pm in the home of a different resident of the Morongo Basin to discuss a book that in one way or another touches on the theme of “desert”.
Since the start of the pandemic, Kip has been hard at work making renovations to the kitchen and bathrooms at Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center, where he is the board President, and keeping their monthly USDA food drive alive. During this time, Kip’s Desert Book Club had largely been on pause, with the exception of a few virtual meetings. These virtual gatherings allowed us to welcome the participation of book club fans from beyond our local region.
Sixty-six books, more than seven years, and one pandemic later, Kip has decided to step back from being the primary book club organizer and join the rest of us as readers. Kip, we thank you for all the wonderful and eclectic desert books you’ve chosen over the years, as well as the unforgettable stories and knowledge you continue to share (if you know, you know!)
So, we are excited to announce that beginning in January 2022, our in-person book club will resume as the Desert Research Library Book Club (or DRL Book Club, for short). Each month, a member of the current Desert Research Library Artist Cohort will select a book from the library as that month’s book club selection.
