Rainforest adventure more than brothers expected

AT BOOKWORKS: Joan Schweighardt will sign “Before We Died” at 3 p.m. today.

In 1908 two IrishAmerican brothers leave their jobs on the docks of Hoboken, N.J., to make their fortune tapping rubber trees in the South American rainforest.

They expect to encounter floods, snakes, malaria, extreme hunger and unfriendly competitors, but nothing prepares them for the psychological hurdles that will befall them.

David Holtby will talk about “Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico” at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12.

More than 14,000 New Mexicans served in uniform during World War I, and thousands more contributed to the American homefront. Yet today in New Mexico, as elsewhere, the Great War and the lives it affected are scarcely remembered. “Lest We Forget” confronts that amnesia. The first detailed study to describe New Mexico’s wartime mobilization, its soldiers’ combat experiences, and its veterans’ postwar lives, the book offers a poignant account of the profound changes these Americans underwent both during and after the war.

Dos Gatos Press publisher and editor Scott Wiggerman and David Meischen will present a free monthly poetry writing workshop featuring writing prompts from their Wingbeats Anthologies at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13. Bring writing tools.

Bookworks Book Club will discuss “My Life on the Road” by Gloria Steinem at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14.

Bookworks is at 4022 Rio Grande NW. Call 344-8139.

OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER:

Thelma Giomi will sign and read from “Church of My Heart” at

1 p.m. today. The book is the collected writings of Debra Giomi’s spiritual experiences at the Petroglyph Park.

The Open Space Visitor Center is at 6500 Coors NW. Call 897-8831.