A walking tour celebrating Adriana Janovich's new book, visiting some of the strange and wondrous Spokane sites it features, starting at the Central Library and ending at Auntie's Bookstore.
Meet in the Events Room of Central Library and take a walk with celebrated author Adriana Janovich. Her latest title is Secret Spokane: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Bring good walking shoes and make sure to arrive in Events A on time. A few sites highlighted in the book will be visited, and the tour will end at Auntie's Bookstore with an author signing.
About the book:
Easygoing and eclectic Spokane is the second-largest city in Washington state, and it’s growing. The secret is starting to get out: The Lilac City—birthplace of Father’s Day, childhood home of crooner Bing Crosby, host of the longtime Lilac Bloomsday Run, and home of Hoopfest, the world’s largest three-on-three outdoor basketball tournament—is a lot of fun. And a little bit haunted.
Its distinctive neighborhoods radiate from the Spokane River, complete with waterfalls, in the heart of the city. Half of its downtown buildings are historical, lending themselves to ghost signs and ghost stories. Secret Spokane explores some of these stories and many others, too.
Find out what life was like for a wealthy Spokane family in the early 1900s at the Campbell House. See where Charles Manson’s mother is buried. Sip a cocktail named for Veronica the—friendly?—ghost at The Bad Seed. Meet Spokane’s marmots and gang of wild South Hill turkeys. Visit the park that helped Spokane make history in 1974 as the smallest city to ever host a World’s Fair. And fall in love with the quirky and unpretentious arts, culture, and culinary capital of the Inland Northwest.
About the author:
Adriana Janovich explored Spokane as the food editor for the Spokesman-Review newspaper from 2013 to 2019. Before that, she was a reporter at newspapers throughout Washington state. Today, she serves as associate editor of Washington State Magazine. She holds a master’s degree in specialized journalism from the University of Southern California, where she was an Annenberg Fellow.
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AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Local History | Learning & Lectures | Health & Fitness | Food, Home & Garden | Book & Film Discussions | Arts & Culture |
| Mon, Apr 13 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Tue, Apr 14 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Wed, Apr 15 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Thu, Apr 16 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Fri, Apr 17 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Apr 18 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Apr 19 | 12:00PM to 4:00PM |
COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY
66 public computer stations
MEETING & STUDY ROOMS
300 person capacity nxʷyxʷyetkʷ Hall (pronounced: inn-whi-whi-ettk, a Salish word meaning Life in the Water)
256 capacity combined event space on the 1st floor
34 person capacity maker studio
2 conference rooms
2 reservable co-working spaces in the Business Lab
5 study rooms
Media Studios – production studio, recording studio, and video studio
SERVICES
Friends of the Library used book store
New Leaf Café
Business Lab with Coworking Space
Computer Lab (Faxing, copying, scanning, printing)
Inland Northwest Special Collections
KYRS Radio
Shimmer (public art) by John Rogers
River Rumpus Children’s Playspace
Serenity Room