Stillpoint: A Center for the Humanities & Community

Stillpoint: A Center for the Humanities & Community is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting a sense of community through the humanities. We work toward this through a small number of events each year, including poetry readings, writers workshops, author talks, music programs and other forums for experiencing and understanding the meaning of community in our lives.


Saturday, October 9, 2010

Fall Literary Event


Sunday, October 17th, 4:00 - 5:30
Academy of Chinese Martial & Cultural Arts
1750 38th St., Boulder
(between Arapahoe & Walnut on 38th)

Local Authors Read Their Work ~ Colorful Colorado Characters and Places

Charmaine Getz - Charmaine’s book, Weird Colorado, highlights unusual, wonderful and quirky spots in our state;

Dick Kreck - Sometimes referred to as Dr. Colorado, Dick will read from his most recent book, Smalldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family.

The event is free and open to the public. Join us!

About the Authors
• Charmaine Getz is a journalist with a zest for the strange, the unusual and the quirky. Weird Colorado gives the scoop about where to find the pleasurable odd attractions -- and the stories behind them -- that the Tourism Bureau doesn't know about and wild Colorado history you didn't learn in school.

Dick Kreck was born in San Francisco, grew up in Glendale, California, and earned his BA in Journalism from San Francisco State College. He worked as reporter and copy editor at the San Francisco Examiner and the LA Times. Dick joined The Denver Post in 1968 and held various jobs there. He wrote a city column for The Post for 18 years and covered television and radio before he retired from the paper in June 2007.

His books include Colorado's Scenic Railroads (1997); Denver in Flames (2000); Murder at the Brown Palace (2003), which was on the Denver Post best-seller list for 22 weeks; and Anton Woode: The Boy Murderer (2006); and Smalldone: The Untold Story of a Denver Crime Family (2009).