Announcements

Friends of the Library 2012 Annual Meeting
Sunday, January 29th from 2:00–4:00 PM at the Southside Library
Everyone welcome!

Our special guest will be C.S. Merrill, author of two books about Georgia O’Keeffe. C.S. Merrill spent seven years of weekends with Georgia O’Keeffe from 1973-1979, working as librarian, secretary, cook, nurse, companion, confidante, reader, and caregiver. Her journal from that time was published by the University of New Mexico Press as Weekends with O’Keeffe. In his column in the Santa Fe New Mexican Marc Simmons included this volume in a list of six most notable books of 2011 in New Mexico. La Alameda Press published her book of poetry, O’Keeffe Days in a Life, in 1996. Merrill will describe her experience, read from both books, and answer questions. These books contain rare insight into the life of Miss O’Keeffe as she was losing her vision, facing old age and death. C.S. Merrill has loved serious reading and writing since early childhood, but did not publish much until she was encouraged to do so by Georgia O’Keeffe. She became very active in the world of poetry and playwriting and worked overseas teaching English as a Second Language in China. Trips to Europe, China, Japan, and Peru continue to inform her poetry. After 30 years of teaching, Merrill has retired to be volunteer librarian at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Before that for eleven years she was librarian at Santo Domingo Pueblo School and Cochiti School as well.