Going, going, gone? How the Sierra Obtained its Beauty

Oct 26, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Rocklin Campus S 111 (Sewell Hall)
5000 Rocklin Rd., Rocklin, CA 95677

$5 General, $2 Student and Senior, Museum members free

Jennifer Skillen, jskillen@sierracollege.edu, (916) 660-7926

A two-day event at Sierra College/Rocklin Campus focusing on the rise and fall of glaciers in the world and the unveiling of California Glaciers by Tim Palmer – a new book published by Heyday and Sierra College Press.

Fri. Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.: How the Sierra Obtained its Beauty - A lecture… Show more by Dick Hilton – SC Natural History Museum lecture series, Sewell Hall 111

Sierra College professor Dick Hilton will demonstrate through graphic illustration, lecture and photographs how the present Sierra Nevada got its peaks, valleys and thousands of crystal clear lakes.

Sat. Oct 27: California Glaciers by Tim Palmer

A new book published by Heyday and Sierra College Press
Illustrated lecture by author/photographer Tim Palmer
Reception for author and our guests – book sales and signing
Special activities at the museum during the day

6 p.m.: SC Friends of the Library will host a private reception for Tim Palmer

Special guest list (special invitees – selected by sponsors of the event)
Formal delivery of 100 special imprints – Friends of the Library Special Edition
Meet/greet and book signings with Tim Palmer

7:30-8:30 p.m.: Tim Palmer Lecture, Sewell Hall 111
8:30-9:30 p.m.: Reception and Book Signing

Sewell 110
Hallways of Sewell
Information tables – (SC Press, Natural History Museum, Friends of the Library, Heyday)
Large poster-sized prints of selected photographs by Tim Palmer (California Glaciers)
Large poster-sized prints of before-and-after glaciers

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