Save the Date for our Annual Meeting for 2024
Our annual meetings are always open to guests who are interested in our organization or our guest speakers!
Annual Meeting November 2023
E.P. Foster Library Topping Room, 651 E. Main St. Sunday November 5, 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Our annual meetings are always open to guests who are interested in our organization or our guest speakers!
As this year marks the 150th Anniversary of Ventura County, the guest speaker for our annual meeting was Deborah Holt Larkin, author of a memoir of Ventura County’s own trial of the century in the 1950’s — A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California’s Most Notorious Killers.
Deborah Holt Larkin was ten years old when her father, the court reporter for the Ventura County Star-Free Press, was immersed in the trial of Olga Duncan’s killers taking place at the Ventura County Courthouse (now Ventura City Hall).
Larkin’s memoir tells the story of this stranger-than-fiction murder case, and the influence of her reporter father’s work in her early life.
Her talk for our meeting will concentrate on her father, Bob Holt. Some of our members will remember his deadline reporting and whimsical columns from his 34 year career with the Ventura Star-Free Press.
Larkin will also speak about the case at the Atrium of City Hall on November 4 at 10:00 am.
Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
A brief business meeting for Ventura Friends of the Library will follow to elect the Board of Directors for the coming year and to pass some bylaw changes in our continuing effort to bring our 54 year old bylaws into the 21st century. To see the proposed bylaw changes, see Ex Libris Fall 2023, page 3 (188 downloads ) .
This is event is part of the celebration of the
150th Anniversary of Ventura County!
