Thursday, February 29, 7:00 pm, Winters Community Library Born and raised on a small organic truck farm in rural Yolo County, Thaddeus Barsotti grew up working on the farm and selling organic produce at farmers’ markets. When his mother died of cancer, 20-year-old Thad and his brothers had to learn the realities of doing business fast—they […]
Author to discuss Cold Canyon fires at annual gathering
Biologist and natural science illustrator Robin Lee Carlson will be the speaker at the Winters Friends of the Library annual gathering on Monday, November 7 at 6:00 p.m. at the Winters Community Library. When Stebbins Cold Canyon burned in 2015, many Winters residents who love to hike in the nearby nature preserve were devastated. Robin […]
Stories on Stage with Reyna Grande
Join us for a special virtual event with Reyna Grande in a partnership with Yolo County Library, Davis Stories on Stage, & the Winters Friends of the Library. Featuring an excerpt of Grande’s bestselling memoir The Distance Between Us, the event will also include a live Q&A with Grande after the performance.Reyna Grande is the […]
Students Express Appreciation
Did you know that on May 21 Author Lynn Fulton not only talked with adults at our evening WFOL Author Talk event, she also visited with students from Waggoner Elementary School? Below is a letter of thanks from the students and some photos showing their engagement and signing up for the Summer Reading program. Thank […]
“The Book of Weirdo” Comes to Winters
During the 1980s, when two of the world’s greatest underground cartoonists, Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky Crumb, lived in Winters, they produced Weirdo, an irreverent, outrageous, hilarious, often politically-incorrect comix magazine. Weirdo was R. Crumb’s inspired answer to the “greed is good” Reagan era. In its time, the periodical featured the finest work of many artists, particularly R. […]
Author Lynn Fulton to Speak May 21 at the Winters Community Library
We are excited to announce our upcoming Author Talk, scheduled for Tuesday, May 21, at 7:00 p.m. at the Winters Community Library. Our featured speaker that evening will be author Lynn Fulton. Lynn grew up loving books and wanting to write them, but never actually finished anything until she learned to type. Her keyboard skills led […]