Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles by Diana Lindsay
Millions of readers were captivated by the monthly writings of Marshal South in Desert Magazine. Once you get a copy of Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles, you will be thanking Diana Lindsay for combining his work with her own research and input from his children to make this incredible book. As an added bonus, we will have director, John McDonald, joining us for a screening of his riveting documentary about the family entitled: The Ghost Mountain Experiment. It is a powerful and entertaining work that adds many layers of depth to this amazing story.
The meeting place will be the warm and cozy Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center at 65336 Winter Rd. Twentynine Palms, CA on November 7th at 7pm. From downtown JT, drive East on Hwy. 62 and turn left (north) on Sunburst. Turn right at Golden, left on Border and keep your eyes open for Pole and Del Oro streets. Winter will be the next road (sign on the left hand side), look for the white Book Club sign on the right. The Community Center is 4 miles down Winter on the left hand side. From 29 Palms, go west on Hwy. 62, turn right on Sunfair and continue on the dirt where it changes names to Coyote Valley. Turn left on Winter at the stop sign and the Center will be on your right in about a quarter mile.
Books to look forward to include the December book The Joshua Tree by Robert Cabot at BOXO House, January will be The Rope by Nevada Barr at Kip’s, and February will be The Temptation of St. Anthony by Flaubert at Mother House.
Monday, November 7th at 7pm
Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center
65336 Winters Rd. Joshua Tree, CA
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.
