Lecture: Geneva Authors Night

Join local authors Jan Regan and Katherine Bourbeau as they discuss their books about Geneva's past and present. Katherine Bourbeau wrote Never Sit on Stone Steps: An Irish-American Girlhood about her grandmother's life growing up on Geneva's South Main Street in the early decades of the twentieth century. Orphaned at 10 and raised by eccentric Victorian-age aunts, Mary Frances Carney's life is captured in the photographs that make up the book. Woven together with family stories, they vividly evoke the Irish-American culture and daily life of a young girl coming of age in the first quarter of the 20th century.
www.kbourbeau.com/stone-steps...
Jan Regan documented the Geneva experience during lockdown and the first summer of the pandemic in her publication #porchportraits: Pandemic and Protest in a Small American City. The book explores the city's residents through photographic portraits of many on their front porches during the first months of the COVID-19 lockdown. She captured images of outdoor celebrations, graduation parades, and the local protests that erupted in the summer of 2020.
www.janreganphotography.com/c...
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