Book Crazed Teens Storm Schnitz!
Chaos reigned under the marquee Tuesday as precisely 794 book-crazed teenagers, high on fiction and spoiling for a lecture, stormed the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. They came from as far away as Corbett High School in the Gorge to hear Heidi Durrow talk about her Bellwether Prize-winning novel, and this year’s Everybody Reads book, The [...]
Heidi Durrow at Jefferson HS and Reynolds
On the afternoon before her lecture at the Schnitz, the 2012 Everybody Reads author Heidi Durrow returned to her alma mater for the first time since she graduated from Jefferson High School. “I have so many memories here,” she said as we walked through the auditorium. In the sunlit band [...]
1,000 Students at the Schnitz for Wes Moore
What does providing tickets and transportation to nearly 1,000 students to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall look like? Well, this was a calm moment… On last Monday night, eight buses were lining the streets around the Schnitz for our event with Wes Moore, the author of this year’s Multnomah Country Library “Everybody Reads” selection, The [...]
