~ 2004 ~
PREVIOUS BOOK SIGNINGS, READINGS, AND ARTWORK DISPLAYS
DECEMBER 2004
Thursday and Friday, December 2 and 3, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
The 26th Annual Conference of the Education Media Association of
New Jersey (EMAnj) at the Hilton East Brunswick, Three Tower
Center Boulevard, East Brunswick, (732) 828-2000.
Times: Thursday: 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM;
Friday: 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:00 to 5:00 PM.
Attending: Author/Poet Frank Finale will meet readers and sign
books.
Saturday, December 4, 2004:
SPECIAL TWO AUTHOR BOOK SIGNING EVENT!:
Titles: "Dick LaBonte, Paintings of the Jersey Shore &
More" by Dick LaBonte and "Spring Lake, Revisited"
by Patrick Smith
Waldenbooks, in Ocean County Mall, Hooper Avenue, Toms River,
(732) 240-5808
Time: 12:00 PM
Attending: Authors Dick LaBonte and Patrick Smith will meet
readers and sign books.
Saturday, December 4, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
Winter Festival, Long Beach Island, 10th to 12th Street at the
Ship Bottom boat ramp, (609) 361-1668.
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will meet readers and sign books.
Sunday, December 5, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
Times: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
La Sirena Antiques, 511 Bay Avenue, Point Pleasant Beach, (732)
899-9303.
Attending: Author Frank Finale and artist Theresa Troise Heidel
will meet readers and sign books and prints.
NOVEMER 2004
Thursday, November 4 and Friday, November 5, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) Convention, New Atlantic
City Convention Center, in the "Author's Alley," Hall
C, Atlantic City. For more information about Author's Alley,
please contact Cindy Vannauker at (609) 599-4561 ext. 2263.
Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, both days.
Attending: Author/Poet Frank Finale will meet readers and sign
books.
OCTOBER 2004
Sunday, October 3, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
Chowder Fest Weekend on LBI, Things A Drift, 406 Long Beach
Boulevard, (609) 361-1668
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will meet readers and sign books.
Saturday, October 9, 2004
Titles: To The Shore Once More, Volumes I & II and A Gull's
Story
Times: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Harvest Festival, Favorite Things, 62 Main Avenue, Ocean Grove,
(732) 774-0230
Attending: Author Frank Finale and artist Theresa Troise Heidel
will meet readers and sign books and prints.
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, October
15, 16, & 17
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I and
II
First Annual Long Branch Poetry Festival sponsored by the Long
Branch Council of the Arts at the Ocean Place Resort & Spa, 1
Ocean Boulevard, Long Branch, 800-411-7321.
Times: For more information, email: poetfeast@Yahoo.com or call
732-229-3166.
Attending: Author/Poet Frank Finale will be one of many poets
attending. Frank will be giving workshops and reading. There will
be off-site readings, panel discussions, workshops, and
tutorials. A few of the poets attending are: Renee Ashley,
Emanuel di Pasquale, Maria Gillan, Madeline Tiger, Joe Weil,
Laura Boss, BJ Ward, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Charles Johnson,
Sander Zulauf, and others, along with Writer's Ink Poetry Group.
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I and
II
Story Time at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Princeton, Route
1 South, Marketfair Mall, Princeton, (609) 716-1570.
Time: 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will read from A Gull's Story,
meet readers, and sign books
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Title: Spring Lake, Revisited
Mantoloking Yacht Club Book Club, Labrador Lounge, 3581 Route 35
North, Normandy Beach (732) 830-5770
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Attending: Author Patrick Smith will give a presentation, sign
books, and meet readers.
SEPTEMBER 2004
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
2004 Street Fair and Craft Show, Broad and Monmouth Streets, Red
Bank, (908) 654-1400.
Times: 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will meet readers and sign books
along with Bernard A. Olson, an author of Civil War books.
Monday, September 20, 2004
Titles: Spring Lake, Revisited
The Ocean Grove Historical Society, at The Francis Asbury Manor,
(732) 774-1316
Times: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Attending: Author Patrick Smith will give a presentation, sign
books, and meet readers.
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
Walt Whitman Poetry Festival, Ocean Grove Historical Society,
Ocean Grove, (732) 774-1869.
Times: 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will read at 1:30 PM and be
available to sign books and meet readers afterwards.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Title: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I &
II
Long Branch Historical Society, located in the Council Chambers
in the Long Branch City Hall, 344 Broadway, Long Branch, (732)
229-9258.
Time: 7:30 PM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will read from his books. After
the reading, Frank will be available to sign books and meet
readers.
AUGUST 2004
Saturday, August 14, 2004
Title: Spring Lake, Revisited
The Parker House, 1 Beacon Boulevard, Sea Girt, (732) 449-0442
Time: 12:30 PM
Attending: Author Patrick Smith will sign books and meet readers.
Saturday, August 14, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I & II
Frappuccino Festival Special Event at Barnes & Nobel Booksellers, 1311 Nixon Dr., Eastgate Square, Moorestown, 856-608-1622
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will meet readers and sign books along with several other authors.
JULY 2004
Saturday, July 3, 2004:
Title: Spring Lake, Revisited
Landmark Books, 1201 Third Avenue, Spring Lake, (732) 449-0804
Time: 1:00 PM
Attending: Author Patrick Smith will sign books and meet readers.
Friday, July 9, 2004:
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 4831 Route 9, Howell, (732)
730-2838
Time: 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will read from A Gull's Story
during "Storytime for Children." Afterwards, there will
be a fun activity. Frank will meet readers and sign books.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004:
Title: A Gull's Story
Asbury Park Library Summer Reading Club, 500 First Avenue, Asbury
Park, (732) 774-4221
Time: Please call library for time.
Attending: Author Frank Finale will read from A Gull's Story and
tell about how the book was created.
Thursday, July 22, 2004:
Title: Spring Lake, Revisited
The Parker House, 1 Beacon Boulevard, Sea Girt, (732) 449-0442
Time: 6:00 PM
Attending: Author Patrick Smith will sign books and meet readers.
Friday, July 23, 2004:
Mantoloking Yacht Club
Bay & Downer Avenues, Mantoloking
Time: 6:00 PM
Attending: Author Patrick Smith will sign books and meet readers
at this private event.
• Saturday, July 24, 2004:
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
First Annual Read-a-thon, Berkeley Branch Library, 30 Station
Road, Bayville, 732-269-2144
Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will read from his books about
1:30 PM for 30 minutes. He will meet readers and sign books
afterwards. Call library for other readers attending.
JUNE 2004
Saturday, June 5, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes. I
& II
8th Annual Barnegat Bay Festival, Berkeley Island County Park,
Bayville. For more information, call 732-255-0472 or go to the
web at www.bbep.org
Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will be there to meet readers and
sign books, along with local author Robert Jahn.
Thursday, June 10, 2004:
Title: Spring Lake, Revisited
Spring Lake Historical Society, at the Spring Lake Municipal
Building, corner of Fifth and Warren Avenues, Second Floor, (732)
449-0772
Time: 7:30 PM
Attending: Author Patrick Smith will give a presentation, sign
books, and meet readers.
MAY 2004
Wednesday, May 12, 2004:
Titles: Spring Lake, Revisited
The Bailey-Reed House, Squan Village Historical Society, 105
South Street, Manasquan, (732) 223-6770
Time: 7:30 PM
Attending: Author Patrick Smith will give a presentation, sign
books, and meet readers.
Monday, May 17, 2004:
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
The Ocean County Reading Council's Annual Spring Banquet at
Vanity Fare on Route 70 East. For tickets and information call
Katherine Midili at 732-341-9120.
Time: Please call for time.
Attending: Author/Poet Frank Finale will give a talk on the joy
poetry and read some selections from his books.
Thursday, May 20, 2004:
Titles: To The Shore Once More, Volumes I & II and A Gull's
Story
"Down Barnegat Bay Symposium" at the Point Pleasant
Branch of the O.C. Library, 834 Beaver Dam Road, (732) 295.1555
Time: 7:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Jersey Shore history will be featured at the "Down Barnegat
Bay Symposium." Hosted by author Robert Jahn, the symposium
includes slides, video, and special displays as well as a
first-time-ever exhibit of several regional oil paintings by
noted artist Gerard R. Hardenbergh from the private collection of
Tom Van Nostrand. Antique duck and shorebird decoys and nautical
artifacts are also featured, including Captain John Lott
Dorsett's 1880 "Historical Cabinet Made from Pieces of 26
Shipwrecks" courtesy of F. Coleman Brice, on loan to Point
Pleasant Historical Society. Folk-singer Valerie Vaughn will
perform her original songs of the Jersey Shore. Mr. Jahn will
present a slide-show based on his illustrated maritime history
"Down Barnegat Bay: A Nor'easter Midnight Reader,"
which recently went into its fifth edition published by Plexus
Publishing, Inc. Authors invited to participate in a Jersey Shore
Book Festival include Frank Finale, "To The Shore Once More,
Volumes I & II" and "A Gull's Story"; Anne
Benedict, "Mantoloking"; Patricia Burke, "Barnegat
Bay Decoys and Gunning Clubs"; Robert Bennett, "The
Surfpounders" and "Surfboats, Rockets &
Carronades"; Gene Donatiello, "Brick Township";
Ferd Klebold, "Fish Pounds from Bay Head to Seaside'; and
Jerry Woolley, "Point Pleasant". Regional cultural,
environmental, and historical groups have been invited to
participate. The symposium marks a return of Mr. Jahn's
"Travelling Through Time" cultural multimedia series at
Ocean County Library. "Times have changed and we're getting
together again to remember our regional heritage," he said.
The program is free and open to all. Advance registration is
requested to reserve a seat. For further information contact the
library at (732) 295.1555.
Sunday, May 30, 2004:
Title: Spring Lake, Revisited
Spring Lake Bath & Tennis Club, Jersey Avenue, Spring Lake,
732-449-6400
Time: 11:00 AM. This is a private event for club members.
Attending: Author Patrick Smith will sign books and meet readers.
APRIL 2004
Wednesday, April 7, 2004:
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
Middlesex County College, 2600 Woodbridge Avenue, the Legal
Studies Seminar/Lecture Room, IRC Rm. #235
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Attending: Author/Poet Frank Finale will read his poetry with
prize-winning poet Emanuel di Pasquale and Daniel Zimmerman.
Matthew Spano will share something about his work on haiku. All
will be available to meet readers and sign books afterwards.
• Thursday, April 8, 2004:
Title: Italian American Writers on New Jersey
Point Pleasant Library, 834 Beaver Dam Road, Point Pleasant,
732-295-1555.
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Attending: Frank Finale, Ed Smith, and Sal Buttaci will read
their work from the anthology edited by Maria Gillan. They will
also read other work and have their books for sale after the
reading.
Saturday, April 17, 2004
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II (in silent auction).
The New Renaissance 35th Anniversary Fundraising Gala at 630
Second Grand Ballroom, 630 2nd Avenue, NY, NY. Call Mal V.
Hammond for details: 508-880-6079.
Time: 6:00 PM to 12:00 PM
Attending: Poetry Editor, Frank Finale, along with Louise T.
Reynolds, Editor-in-Chief, and the staff of TNR. Cocktails and
hors D'oeuvres: 6 PM; Dinner: 7:30 PM. Dancing, silent auction,
readings. Frank will read three poems from past issues.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004:
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference
Ocean Place Hotel, Long Branch, 800-411-7321
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Attending: Author/Poet Frank Finale will meet readers and sign
books at the Author's Alley.
MARCH 2004
Wednesday, March 10, 2004:
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
Zeta Chapter of the Delta Kappa Society International, an honor
society of women educators, at a private residence in Toms River.
Time: to be determined
Attending: Author Frank Finale will give a presentation about his
books and how he came to write them. He will meet readers and
sign books afterwards.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004:
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
34th Annual Monmouth Festival of the Arts, 332 Hance Avenue,
Tinton Falls, 732-747-8278.
Time: 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Attending: Author Frank Finale will give a presentation about his
books. Afterwards he will meet readers and sign books.
FEBRUARY 2004
Friday, February 6 and Saturday, February 7, 2004:
Titles: A Gull's Story and To The Shore Once More, Volumes I
& II
New Jersey Reading Association Annual Conference at the Sheraton
Eatontown Hotel and Conference Center, Eatontown.
Time: For more information, please contact Dawn Guarneri,
Conference Chair, 732-929-9565.
Attending: Author, Poet, and Educator Frank Finale will be one of
the featured speakers.