SBPL Coffee Break - Taylor Brasseur (Episode 11)

This week we were joined by Taylor Brasseur, Library Technician at the Santa Barbara Public Library System. 

Mentioned in this episode:

History Book Club -
https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/lib/events/library_book_clubs.asp

Enlightenment Now -
https://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=1024726

Author Donna Hylton at Eastside -
http://santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=16652

Samuel Sweet at Solvang -
http://santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=14515

SB Reads Kickoff -
http://santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=15946

Zine Workshop -
http://santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=14030

Dr. Strangelove -
https://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=236177

Salt Fat Acid Heat -
https://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=993801

The Food Lab -
https://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=835113

Down and Out in Paris and London -
https://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=240982

Tropic of Cancer (mentioned in episode, but did not remember the title) -
https://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=56831

Big Night -
https://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=121095

Find more SBPL Staff Picks Blog - http://sbplstaffpicks.blogspot.com/

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States - Sarah Vowell

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst - Jeffrey Toobin

A Sailor's Guide to Earth - Sturgill Simpson (Music Album)

Floodpath - Jon Wilkman

Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank

Death Valley in '49 : important chapter of California pioneer history - William Lewis Manly

Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife - Margaret Holden Eaton

Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife: Tales of Santa Cruz Island - Eaton, Margaret Holden

Summary & Review: Margaret Eaton and her husband Ira were well known to Santa Barbarans in the early part of this century as operators of the Pelican Bay Camp on Santa Cruz Island. Beginning humbly with small-scale commercial fishing, seal hunting and passenger charters, the Eatons gradually developed a unique resort that came to be popular among writers, film companies and people from all over the country. Working from her diary and her memories, Mrs. Eaton wrote this extraordinary story of her life over a period of many years, until her death in 1947. She is remembered by her daughter, Vera Eaton Amey, as a fearless and compassionate women. Mrs. Amey has done admirably well in sorting through mountains of letters, clippings and photographs to organize her mother's manuscript. She has also painstakingly consulted other sources to confirm, as much as possible, the accuracy of these recollections. With the passage of time- half a century and more- corroboration becomes increasingly difficult, and inconsistencies have inevitably crept in. The reader who would use "Diary of a Sea Captains Wife" as a historical reference is asked to bear this in mind. The true significance of Margaret Eaton's story lies in its appeal as the personal account of a woman living in a man's world, in a time and place remote from today's urban society. Jan Timbrook Associate Curator, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History -Amazon

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