Sites
of the Month for August 2003
Children’s
Programs at PLS Libraries
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Farmers’
Markets
http://www.cafarmersmarkets.com/
Take advantage of the beautiful produce of summer and find a farmers’
market in your area on this website from the California Federation
of Certified Farmers’ Markets. Also includes shopping tips
and recipes.
http://www.seasonalchef.com/
Informative articles on cooking with the produce from California
farmers’ markets with advice on what’s in season.
http://www.localharvest.org/
Search this national database of farmers’ markets and family
farms for locally grown foods in your area.
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Fairs
State
and County Fairs in California
A
chronological list of links to California fair sites.
Sonoma
County Fair
July 22 - August 4, 2003
http://www.sonomacountyfair.com/
Santa
Clara County Fair
August 1 - 3, 2003
http://www.thefair.org/
Napa
Town and Country Fair
August 6 - 10, 2003
http://www.napavalleyexpo.com/
San
Mateo County Fair
August 8 - 17, 2003
http://www.sanmateocountyfair.com/
California
State Fair
August 15-Sept. 1
http://www.bigfun.org/
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Travel
http://www.lonelyplanet.com
Create mini-guides for destinations worldwide and check out the
Thorn Tree for travelers’ comments.
http://travel.state.gov
State Department travel warnings, public announcements and consular
information sheets.
http://frommers.com/
A nice site for travelers on a budget.
http://www.plsinfo.org/reads/for_kids/kids_place/places_to_go.htm
Places to go in or near San Mateo County
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Historical
Events and Birthdays
This month we acknowledge the birthdays of writers and illustrators
of children's books and and a a publisher.
August
1
1770 - William Clark
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/clark.htm
August
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1920 - P. D. James
http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,96554,00.html
August
4
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/wallenberg.html
August
5
1930 - Neil Armstrong
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/armstrong.html
1957 - American Bandstand debuts nationally
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-2034/
August
6
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson
http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/
August
7
1940 - Garrison Keillor
http://www.mindspring.com/~celestia/keillor/index.htm
August
9
1930 - Betty Boop
http://www.toonopedia.com/boop.htm
August
11
1921 - Alex Haley
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/haley_a.htm
August
13
1860 - Annie Oakley
http://www.cowgirls.com/dream/cowgals/oakley.htm
1926
- Fidel Castro
http://abcnews.go.com/reference/bios/castro.html
August
15
1888 - Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
http://www.btinternet.com/~britishempire/empire/biography/lawrence.htm
1969 - Woodstock
http://www.woodstock69.com/
August
16
1902 - Georgette Heyer
http://www.abfar.co.uk/bibliogs/gh_bib.htm
August
19
1848 - First report of the gold discovery in California
published in the New York Herald
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/albertson.html
1883 - Coco Chanel
http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/WOW/v1041/hyper/chanel.html
August
20
1886 - Paul Tillich
http://www.btinternet.com/~drakegroup/cap01/CAP/paul_tillich.htm
August
22
1831 - Nat Turner led an uprising of blacks against
slavery.
http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00711.html
August 23
1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I
Have a Dream" speach in Washington , D.C.
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_167.html
August
25
1836 - Bret Harte
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/harte.html
August
26
1920 - The 19th Amendment giving women in the U. W.
the right to vote is proclaimed.
http://www.umkc.edu/imc/suffrage.htm
August
27
1899 - C. S. Forester
http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/13/1300/
August
28
1828 - Leo Tolstoy
http://www.ltolstoy.com/about.html
August
31
1908 - William Saroyan
http://members.aol.com/kalinian/pamphlet/william.html
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