White Heart of Mojave by Edna Perkins at Bob Tellefson’s house
Let’s travel out to Bob Tellefson’s house in Wonder Valley and discuss The White Heart of Mojave by Edna Brush Perkins. A well crafted adventure tale of a trip to Death Valley by two east coast socialites in 1920. The afterward is almost as long as the book–illustrated, and well worth reading. Mr. Wild did some serious research to add depth to the many desert characters Edna encountered along her way.
To get to Bob’s house, take Hwy 62 east from 29 Palms for about 8 miles and turn left on Shelton Road (it’s just past where the highway makes a big zig zag). Drive north about 1.5 miles, and turn right on El Paseo. Bob is the last and only house on the right. If the weather is nice, he says we can play ping pong!
Monday, November 2, 2015, 7 pm
The Tellefson Residence
Wonder Valley, CA (see driving directions above)
This is the fourteenth 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.
