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THE BASEBALL RELIQUARY AND THE 
ALLENDALE BRANCH LIBRARY PRESENT 
DODGERLAND: DECADENT LOS ANGELES AND 
THE 1977-78 DODGERS DISCUSSION AND BOOK 
SIGNING WITH MICHAEL FALLON 


Dodgers 1977 Opening Day Starting Lineup 


“Dodgerland is a fascinating study of Americanculture in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Among thecharacters marching across the pages are Tom Wolfe,
Hugh Hefner, Charles Manson, Jim Bouton, MayorTom Bradley, Frank Zappa, and, of course, the menwho bled Dodger blue, including imperfect heroessuch as Steve Garvey, Don Sutton, Reggie Smith, andGlenn Burke. All came for the American Dream. 
Not all of them made it.” – Peter Golenbock, author 
of The Bronx Zoo and Bums: An Oral History of theBrooklyn Dodgers

The Baseball Reliquary and the Allendale BranchLibrary present a discussion and book signing withMichael Fallon, author of the newly-published book,
Dodgerland: Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-78Dodgers (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), onSaturday, July 23, 2016, at 2:00 p.m., at the AllendaleBranch Library, 1130 S. Marengo Ave., Pasadena.
The program is free of charge, and light refreshmentswill be served. 

The 1977-78 Dodgers came close. Their toughlineup of young and ambitious players squared off withthe New York Yankees in consecutive World Series. 
The Dodgers’ run was a long time in the making afteryears of struggle and featured many homegrownplayers who went on to noteworthy or Hall of Famecareers, including Don Sutton, Steve Garvey, DaveyLopes, and Steve Yeager. Dodgerland is the story ofthose memorable teams as Chavez Ravine began tochange, baseball was about to enter a new era, andAmerican culture experienced a shift to the “me”
decade. Part journalism, part social history, and partstraight sportswriting, Dodgerland is told throughthe lives of four men, each representing differentaspects of this L.A. story. Tom 

Southern California, baseball, 
the Dodgers, gives an up-close

Lasorda, the vocal manager of

music, food, American social 
view of the team’s struggles

and cultural history, and more.
and triumphs; Tom Fallon, a

The program is supported, insuburban small-business owner, 

part, by a grant to the Baseballwitnesses the Dodgers’ seasons

Reliquary from the Los Angelesand the changes to California’s

County Board of Supervisors 
landscape – physical, social, 

through the Los Angeles 
political, and economic; Tom 

County Arts Commission. 
Wolfe, a chronicler of California’s 
ever-changing culture, views 

Date & Time: Saturday, July 23,

2016, 2:00 p.m.

the events of 1977-78 from his 

Location: Allendale Branch 

Manhattan writer’s loft; and Tom 

Library

Bradley, Los Angeles’s mayor

Address: 1130 S. Marengo Ave.,

and the region’s most dominant

Pasadena, CA 91106 

political figure of that era, gives

Information: (626) 744-7260 ordemographic, and economic pasadenapubliclibrary.netforces that affected the state at the For additional information, 
time. The “Boys in Blue” drew baseball’s focus inplease contact the Allendale Branch Library bythose two seasons, but the intertwining narratives tellphone at (626) 744-7260; visit the Allendale Brancha larger story about California, late 1970s America,Facebook page at facebook.com/allendalebranch; or

and great promise unrealized. visit pasadenapubliclibrary.net. 

a glimpse of the wider political,

Michael Fallon 


On the Marquee: Notes from the Sierra Madre Playhouse 
A PERFECT BEE 


Michael Fallon is a writer based in the Twin Cities 
of Minnesota. He was born and raised in the quiet,
suburban foothills of Southern California in the 
1970s and ‘80s. Since 1997, he has published hundredsof reviews, feature articles, essays, and profiles on all

sorts of subjects, including art,


By Artistic Director, Christian Lebano

The definition of a “bee” is a community socialgathering centered around an activity. The opening ofThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee providesa wonderful opportunity for all of our friends to gatherat the Playhouse. I’ve written that I hope that our localfriends will think of the Playhouse as an extension of theirliving rooms – come on down and plop into a red velvetseat and watch this very fun show.

We had a terrific invited dress rehearsal last night. The 
audience loved the show and the cast responded to theenthusiasm with great energy. A show like this one which 
is so dependent on the interactions between the cast andthe audience is so difficult to rehearse. You never reallyknow the show until you start putting it up in front of 
patrons.

There seems to be some confusion about the nature of 
this show – it is a musical comedy about a Spelling Bee. If 
you have ever seen the terrific documentary Spellboundabout the national bee that will give you an idea of whathappens in this show. All the kids in the bee are played by 
very talented adults. The humor is ripe and playful andsometimes a little off-color – that’s why we have said thatthe show may not be appropriate for kids younger than14 years old. This show won two Tony’s when it was on 

Broadway.

Robert Marra who did such a lovely job last year withAlways…Patsy Cline directs and Joe Lawrence, who isnew to the Playhouse, music directs. We have a wonderful 
design team and truly charming actors. I do hope you willmake plans to see this funny and ultimately heartwarmingshow. 

Putting a season together is about creating a mix

– Spelling Bee is about as different from The GlassMenagerie which preceded it as two shows can be. And 
the next show, Bee-luther-hatchee is as different from both 
as possible. I plan on announcing our 2016-17 season nextweek, but know that I try to bring in a variety of showsbecause I know that we are appealing to a wide range oftastes and not everything will appeal to everybody.
* * * 
We got amazing news yesterday about our LA CountyArts Grant. It was twice as high as any we’ve ever gotten!
I think this is a real testament to the work we’ve been 
doing at the Playhouse and our growing reputation. This 
money will be used to help us build our grant-writing anddevelopment functions.
This is your Playhouse. Please let me hear from you.
Please visit our website at SierraMadrePlayhouse.org orcall Mary at 626.355.4318 to purchase tickets. 

Jeff’s Book Pics By Jeff Brown 


The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah in 1933 caught in a passionate love triangle thatFrance 1939.In love we find out who we want to threatens theirs bonds, their careers, and ultimatelybe.In war we find out who we are.. In the quiettheir lives. English Anthropologist Andrew 
village of Carriveau, Vianne Bankson has been alone in the 
Mauriac says goodbye to her 


field for several years, studyinghusband, Antoine, as he heads for 

a tribe on the Sepik River in thethe Front. She doesn’t believe that 

Territory of New Guinea with littlethe Nazis will invade France … 

success. Increasingly frustrated 
but invade they do, in droves of

and isolated by his research, 
marching soldiers, in caravans of

Bankson is on the verge of suicidetrucks and tanks, in planes that fill

when he encounters the famous 
the skies and drop bombs upon the

and controversial Nell Stone 
innocent. When a German captain

and her wry, mercurial husbandrequisitions Vianne’s home, she 

Fen. Bankson is enthralled byand her daughter must live with the

the magnetic couple whose eagerenemy or lose everything. Without

attentions pull him back fromfood or money or hope, as danger

the brink of despair. Set betweenescalates all around them, she is 

World War I and II and inspired byforced to make one impossible

events in the life of revolutionarychoice after another to keep her

anthropologist Margaret Mead, 
family alive.Vianne’s sister, Isabelle,

Euphoria is an enthralling 
is a rebellious eighteen-year-old

story of passion, possession, 
girl, searching for purpose with

exploration and sacrifice. 
all the reckless passion of youth.
While thousands of Parisians 

The Wonder Trail: True Stories 

from Los Angeles to the Endmarch into the unknown terrors of 

of the World by Steve Helywar, she meets Gäetan, a partisan

The Wonder Trail is the storythe Nazis from within France, and 
who believes the French can fight

of a trip from Los Angeles to 
she falls in love as only the young

the bottom of South America, 
can … completely. But when he

presented in 102 short chapters.
betrays her, Isabelle joins the

From Mexico City to Oaxaca; intoResistance and never looks back, 

ancient Mayan ruins; the jungles,
risking her life time and again to

coffee plantations, and remotesave others.With courage, grace

beaches of Central America; 
and powerful insight, bestselling

across the Panama Canal; by seaauthor Kristin Hannah captures

to Colombia; to the wild Easter 
the epic panorama of WWII and

celebration of Popayán; to the 
illuminates an intimate part of

Amazon rainforest; the Inca sites 
history seldom seen: the women’s

of Cuzco and Machu Picchu; 
war. The Nightingale tells the

to the Galápagos Islands; thestories of two sisters, separated by

Atacama Desert of Chile; and 
years and experience, by ideals,down to wind-worn Patagonia 
passion and circumstance, each 


at the bottom of the Western 
embarking on her own dangerous

Hemisphere; Steve traveled 
path toward survival, love, and

collecting stories, adventures, 
freedom in German-occupied, war-

oddities, marvels, bits of historytorn France--a heartbreakingly

and biography, tales of weirdos,
beautiful novel that celebrates the 

fun facts, and anything else 
resilience of the human spirit and

interesting or illuminating.Steve’sthe durability of women. It is a novel

plan was to discover the unusual,
for everyone, a novel for a lifetime. 

wonderful, and absurd in Central 

and South America, to seek and 

find the incredible, delightful 
Winner of the 2014 Kirkus Prize,the 

Euphoria by Lily King

people and experiences that 
2014 New England Book Award

came his way. And the book thatfor Fiction,and a finalist for the 

resulted is just as fun. A blend ofNational Book Critics Circle Award. 

travel writing, history, and comicLily’s novel is the story of three 

memoir, The Wonder Trail will 
young, gifted anthropologists 

inspire, inform, and delight. 

All Things Considered By Jeff Brown 

OZONE HOLE ON THE MEND, SAY SCIENTISTS. 

The troublesome tear in Earth’s protective blanket isgetting stitched up.A gaping hole in the ozone layerhad been opening up over Antarctica each springfor decades. And now there are signs that the slowprocess of healing has begun, according to a studypublished Thursday in the journal Science.Scientistscredit this progress to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, aninternational treaty that phased out chemicals thateat away at the ozone layer, which shields our planetfrom deadly levels of radiation.Chlorofluorocarbonswere commonly used as refrigerants and propellantsfor decades. “The healing of the Antarctic 
stratospheric ozone level is the most significantenvironmental success story of the 20th century,”
Michael Newchurch, an atmospheric chemist at 

the University of Alabama .The ozone layer in theatmosphere acts as a sort of sunscreen, blocking outharmful wavelengths of ultraviolet (UV) radiationthat disrupt the very cells of living organisms.Therewould actually be no life on the planet’s surface if wedidn’t have an ozone layer.”This is further evidencethat phasing out the CFCs and other ozone depletingchemicals is working to heal the ozone layer,”
David Doniger, director of the climate and clean airprogram at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
“The bad news is that we really messed up the ozonelayer,” he says. “The good news is that we can save theozone layer and we are restoring it by eliminatingthese manmade chemicals that are responsible forthe damage.” 

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