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Follow on Google News | Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Stockton AuthorMary Jo Gohlke will be available to sign copies of pictorial history
In the twentieth century, women fought for suffrage and helped start local colleges, run steamship lines, build food empires and break the school district’s color barrier. Writers like Sylvia Sun Minnick and Maxine Hong Kingston chronicled the town. Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers. Harriet Chalmers Adams caught the travel bug on walks with her father, and Dawn Mabalon rescued the history of the Filipino population. Join Mary Jo Gohlke, news writer turned librarian, as she eloquently captures the stories of twenty-two triumphant and successful women who led a little river city into state prominence. Join the Author for a Book Signing! Where: Costco 1616 East Hammer Lane, Stockton, CA 95210 When: Saturday, December 6th, 2014; 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through The History Press at 866-457-5971 or www.historypress.net The History Press, based in Charleston, South Carolina, brings a new way of thinking to history publishing by producing regional history titles by excellent historians and striving to make these books available to a wide audience. Remarkable Women of Stockton By Mary Jo Burkholder 144 pages/ softcover Available: March 2014 End
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