Mark your calendars for the following coastal events. Most of these events will be held at Four-Eyed Frog Books or the bookstore's upstairs neighbor, Mary Boal's Windowears, behind the Clocktower in Cypress Village. You can find more details in the ICO as each event draws near.
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5 to 7PM Fridays, on KTDE, The Tide, 100.5FM
Friday Fun, Fun, Fun with FrogMan Joel — Trivia and Tunes from the 50’s, 60’s & 70’s  
Join FrogMan Joel this Friday and every Friday at 5PM on the TIDE, 100.5 FM. Send your requests to GualalaFrog@gmail.com, or phone 707-884-3000 while the FrogMan's on the air. Let’s have some fun together.

4PM Saturday, June 19 at Four-Eyed Frog Books
Jon Turk introduces The Raven
Jon Turk stood naked, balancing on one leg, while Moolynaut, a 100 year old Siberian shaman chanted in the ancient tongue, asking Kutcha, The Raven, to heal his broken and damaged pelvis. But first, she told him, he had to believe.

"Believe in what?" he asked himself.

Forty years ago, Jon Turk was a scientist at the University of Colorado. For Earth Day 1, 1970, he co-authored the first college level environmental science textbook in North America. But even as he continued a successful career as an environmental educator, he wandered the great oceans, mountain ranges, and tundras of the globe.

"Believe in what?" he wondered.

Join Jon at Four-Eyed Frog Books for an amazing journey of self-discovery. Framed by high adventure across the vast and forbidding Siberian landscape, his book, "The Raven's Gift," is a life-altering vision of the ties between the natural and spiritual realms, informed by one man’s awakening and guided by the ancient Spirit Bird with wide black wings and the power to heal.

Jon Turk received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971. But hounded by restless spirits, he kayaked across the North Pacific and around Cape Horn, mountain biked through the Gobi desert, made first climbing ascents of big walls on Baffin Island, and first ski descents in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzia. His two-year kayak passage across the North Pacific Rim was named by Paddler Magazine as one of the ten greatest sea kayaking expeditions of all times. Jon has chronicled his adventures in three books: "Cold Oceans," "In the Wake of the Jomon," and his new book, "The Raven's Gift."

Henry Pollack: Co-Winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore writes of "The Raven's Gift" : "The tension between his own logical scientific background and the mysterious shamanistic wisdom of his healer is at the heart of this wonderfully-told story of Koryak life, and of his own personal transformation."

4PM Saturday, September 18 at Four-Eyed Frog Books
Annette White Parks shares from qh awala.li: ‘water running down place'
This handsome, hardbound coffee table book offers a comprehensive history of the logging, the shipping, the railroads and, most importantly, the people who had surprising influence on the development of the Pacific West Coast. It includes original maps and drawings as well as more than 50 rare, old photographs. It’s as interesting as a novel, it’s all true, and the endnotes & references reflect the thorough research of the true historian White-Parks is.

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