Member Meeting: |
June 15, 2011 |
Jeane Slone, Author of She Built Ships During WWII
| Join us on Wednesday evening June 15th at 7:00 pm as Pacific Coast Air Museum member and author Jeane Slone presents her latest book “She Built Ships During WWII”. Autographed book sales will be part of the evening’s events. Jeane Slone is the Vice President of the Redwood Writer’s Club, a member of the Healdsburg Literary Guild, Military Writer’s Society of America and the Pacific Coast Air Museum. She is a tutor for the Adult Literacy Program. Ms. Slone has published two historical fictions, She Flew Bombers and the newly published She Built Ships During WWII. |
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| She Built Ships
During World War II What do the Port Chicago explosion, Tuskegee Airmen, Japanese American internment, the first child care center, women welders and riveters all have in common? With meticulous research on WWII era, Jean Slone weaves an intricate story of cruelty, compassion and love. The courage of women welders who built ships while their husbands were at war is depicted so well that the characters come to life. A tender romance is threaded throughout the book and we agonize with the heroine as she brings it to its inevitable conclusion. Between the fascinating and sometimes Larger than life sympathetic characters, this historical fiction is a page-turner to the very end. |
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Location:
Mesa Beverage Company, Inc.3200 N. Laughlin Road. Santa Rosa, CA
Directions: From Santa Rosa, take Highway 101 North and exit at Airport Blvd. Turn left on Laughlin Road toward the museum. The Mesa building is located on the left side of the street just past the museum and Nob Hill south gate.
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| July 20 | Author and WWII veteran James W. Fitch will discuss his experiences serving in the US Navy during WWII. There will be book sales and autographs of “Desert Sailor” at the meeting. |
| August | No meeting. Enjoy the Wings Over Wine Country Air Show! |
| September 21 | Aviation professional and former United Airlines mechanic Faride Khalaf will join us with his presentation on the Boeing 747 fuel system and everything you always wondered about the intricacies of what it takes to keep that jumbo jet’s four engines turning and burning. |
| October 19 | Rollie Barton WWII veteran P-51 pilot in Italy. |
