SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016
LRP announces cast of Library
‘Pirates of Penzance’ Tidings
Prepare for high energy
on the high seas with Last
Resort Players’ “Pirates of
Penzance,” sailing into the
Florence Events Center this
November.
The creative team that
brought “Les Misérables” to
local audiences has gathered a
stellar cast of new and old
faces to bring Gilbert and
Sullivan’s classic comic opera
of a band of pirates, faithful
daughters and a very modern
major general in a comedy of
epic proportions.
“Pirates of Penzance” will
star Sandy Vaccaro as the
Pirate King, Jim Wellington
as the major general, Dana
Rodet as the sergeant, Patrick
Rowley as Samuel and Sean
Abplanalp as Frederic, a
young pirate apprentice in
love.
Hilary Roach plays Mabel,
daughter of the major general,
and Abplanap’s real-life best
friend.
“I’m thrilled to be acting
opposite one of my best
friends, Sean,” Roach said. “In
addition, I am so excited to be
working with Leah Goodwin,
Laura Merz and this fabulous
cast and crew, many of whom I
worked with in ‘Les Mis.’”
The major general’s other
daughters include Kate,
played by Erin Leonard,
Edith, played by Taylor
Winona, and Isabel, played by
Lilly Cox.
Crystal Farnsworth stars as
Ruth, Frederic’s nursemaid.
The “Pirates of Penzance”
pirate chorus includes Jim
Adie, James Bonisteel, Ceasar
Castillo, David Collins, Butch
Goodwin, Paul Guthmuller,
Grant
Harmond,
Danial
Keppol, Dorland Neale, Annie
Schmidt, Sue Sweatt and Sally
Wantz. The women’s chorus
includes Karin Bigler, Johanna
Bonisteel, Shy Coverdale,
Alison Cox, Tanya Garrett,
Jessalynn Keppol, Karylynn
Keppol, Lyndsey Keppol, Erin
Leonard, Alizabeth Norton,
Joanie Schmidt and Myrna Lee
Sullivan.
Last Resort Players will
play “Pirates of Penzance” at
Florence Events Center, 715
Quince St., the weekends of
Nov. 4 to 6 and 11 to 13, with
evening and matinee perform-
ances.
Tickets will soon be avail-
able at eventcenter.org.
For more information about
the production, go to
www.lastresortplayers.org.
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings,
a regular feature
of the Siuslaw News,
features news about
upcoming Siuslaw
Public Library pro-
grams for adults and
children, new books
and videos, and other
library news of interest
to the community.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
Rise of the Rocket Girls:
The women who propelled
us, from missiles to the
moon to Mars
By Nathalia Holt
Book Review by Linda Weight
Microbiologist and author
Nathalia Holt discovered a
remarkable group of women by
happenstance while researching
names for the daughter she was
expecting. One name, Eleanor
Frances, led her to Eleanor
Frances Helin, who was a scien-
tist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) in charge of a
program that tracked asteroids
nearing Earth.
Intrigued, Holt delved further,
discovering a group of women
known as “the human comput-
ers” at JPL during the 1940s and
1950s.
These women, with their
amazing math skills, were
responsible for the critical calcu-
lations at JPL that helped devel-
op rocket fuels, launch
America’s first satellite, guide
lunar missions and navigate
Mars rovers.
At first, all their computing
was done with pencil, graph
paper and slide rules. Even after
the introduction of early IBM
computers, JPL’s engineers pre-
ferred to rely on the “human
computers” as their work was
faster and more accurate.
Holt’s book, “Rise of the
Rocket Girls,” provides a fasci-
nating history of JPL, starting
with its early days at CalTech
with four young men who were
experimenting with rockets from
the roofs of campus buildings
(until CalTech administrators
decided this might be too dan-
gerous), all the way up to current
projects that are running —
including Project Juno, overseen
by Sue Finley, one of the original
team, which is on its way to
Jupiter.
But Holt’s book also shows
the challenges a group of
extremely intelligent women
faced while contributing their
formidable talents to the devel-
opment of America’s space pro-
gram.
Fired for pregnancies, denied
the title of “engineer” because
JPL’s policy stated that only
someone with an engineering
degree could hold that title (and
colleges of engineering were, at
that time, male-only), the Rocket
Girls persevered because they
loved mathematics and believed
in the goals of the program.
Story Time on hiatus
Twice-weekly story times
with Ms. Gayle are on hiatus
until September. Story times
5 A
resume Tuesday, Sept. 6, at
10:30 a.m.
August art display
This month’s lobby art display
features the beautiful water
media work of Lin-Su, a Hang-
It-All award winner from last
year. And in the case, just in
time for the election season, is a
collection of Harlan Springer’s
political campaign buttons.
Get your notices
through email
If you would like to save the
library a little money, be sure to
ask that all hold notices, overdue
notices and any other library
messages be sent through email
rather than through “snail” mail.
You will get the information
much quicker and you’ll save the
library a stamp. Just stop by the
Circulation desk and they can
make sure they have the correct
email address for you.
Mapleton branch
The Mapleton library is locat-
ed at 88148 Riverview Ave., in
the Lion’s Club Building. With
a nice view of the Siuslaw River,
it’s a wonderful place to sit and
enjoy a good book or read the
newspaper. Hours are Tuesday
through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
Check it out!
FRAA to feature ‘Three Glassy Ladies’ in August
The public is invited to
attend a three-women show
titled: “Three Glassy Ladies.”
This will be held at the
Florence
Regional
Arts
Alliance (FRAA) Art Center at
120 Maple St. A reception with
refreshments will be held on
Friday, Aug. 12, from 3 to 5
p.m.
Then on Saturday, Aug. 13,
the three artists’ beautiful
glassworks can be viewed from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m., including
during the popular Second
Saturday Gallery Tour, from 3
to 5 p.m.
The artists will be available
during these times to meet
guests and answer questions
about their art forms.
The three “Glassy Ladies”
include Peggy Goodrow, who
works with stained glass; Tina
Shoys, who works with mosaic
glass; and Kristin Anderson,
who works with fused glass.
Goodrow has lived in the
Pacific Northwest her entire
life, and loves the natural beau-
ty of the Florence area.
different textures of glass,” she
said.
In addition to being a mem-
ber of FRAA, Goodrow is on
the art display committee at the
Siuslaw Public Library.
Shoy started to do mosaic
work after retiring from a
career in corporate telecommu-
nications management.
She sells her art on Etsy, at
local arts and crafts events and
has sold work in several local
Florence shops. She is also a
member of FRAA.
Anderson said she began
working with fused glass “as a
counterbalance to my analyti-
cal daily work as an engineer-
ing director.”
“I fell in love with the color
and creativity that comes with
creating glass art,” added
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Anderson.
Artists (from left): Tina Shoys, mosaics; Peggy Goodrow,
She has an Etsy store and has
stained glass; and Kristin Anderson, fused glass
sold work in galleries, includ-
ing FRAA.
She serves as vice-president
“After a long career in dental to take stained glass classes,”
of FRAA, and enjoys “helping
hygiene, I decided to make said Goodrow.
good use of the right side of my
Her favorite thing to do with to promote the arts in
brain and started 14 years ago glass is to “use lots of color and Florence.”
‘Midnight in Florence’ literary salon set for Saturday
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The literary salon of 1930s
Paris is making a comeback.
Designed as a convivial event
celebrating the written word and
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made famous by the film
“Midnight in Paris,” literary
salons help to promote local
writers and their work while
upholding the literary arts in a
digital era.
Writers on the River will
present its first “Midnight in
Florence” literary salon on
Saturday, Aug. 6, from 6 to 8
p.m., at the Florence Regional
Arts Alliance (FRAA), 120
Maple St. in Old Town.
Presented by FRAA creative
writing instructor and award-
winning journalist Catherine J.
Rourke, the salon is free and
open to the public.
Following the tradition of
Gertrude Stein’s infamous
Parisian salons, each monthly
event will highlight a featured
writer who will talk about their
writing and share an excerpt
from their work.
An open mic segment fol-
lows, during which writers of all
levels and genres are invited to
read, recite or sing excerpts
from their published or unpub-
lished material.
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Karen Nichols will appear as
this month’s featured writer,
sharing passages from her four
published novels: “Triumph
Over Fear,” “Second Chance
Heart,” “The Unexpected Gift”
and “Thornton House.”
Nichols
facilitates
the
Coastal Writers, a local critique
group, and will soon finish an
anthology of short stories in
time for the sixth annual
Florence Festival of Books, for
which she is also a member of
the planning committee.
Visit www.karendnichols.
com for more info.
Reading slots are limited to
five minutes on a first-come
basis. Those who wish to partic-
ipate in the open mic must
arrive at 5:30 p.m. to sign up.
Call
541-708-2120
or
email Catherine J. Rourke at
CJReditor@gmail.com
for
more info, or if interested in
becoming a featured writer.
The next salon will take place
in October.
A $5 donation is suggested to
support FRAA for hosting the
event.
Refreshments will be avail-
able.
“Literary salons inspire, unite
and support all writers while
providing cultural enrichment
and entertainment,” Rourke
said. “We are bringing the River
Seine to the Siuslaw and the
Left Bank to Bay Street.”
Writers on the River offers
educational workshops and
social events as an opportunity
for open exchange and network-
ing to support writers on their
journey.