She’s Got a Gun by Nancy Floyd hosted by Steve and Mary Helen
When I found out that photographer and author Nancy Floyd was going to be visiting Joshua Tree, I jumped at the chance to get her to visit our June 1st book club meeting with her book She’s Got a Gun, about the history of women and firearms in America. Be sure to bring your most hair raising local stories involving guns–this discussion should be quite lively! Nancy has been visiting Joshua Tree and Death Valley every year and can also fill us in on her latest desert based work.
We will be meeting on the patio of Steve and Mary Helen Tuttle’s dome house in North Joshua Tree, so bring a folding chair if you have one. From downtown Joshua Tree, turn north on Sunburst, right on Golden, left on Border, keep your eyes out for Pole and Del Oro signs and turn right on Winters, with the street sign on the left hand side of the road and the large “Book Club” sign on your right. Drive 2 miles and turn right on Sunever. The dome is on the corner. (I’ll mark it with a sign so you can’t miss it.) There is limited parking inside the fence, so do your best to park outside the compound–we’ll squeeze you all in.
Monday, June 1, 2015, 7 PM
The Tuttle Residence
North Joshua Tree, CA (see driving directions above)
This is the ninth 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.
