Author Joe Heywood
Fans of the “Woods Cop” mysteries have a new installment of the series to read this fall. Force of Blood chronicles the further adventures of Grady Service, a fictional detective with the enforcement division of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in the Upper Peninsula. Author Joe Heywood of Portage spends a lot of time riding around the U-P with real D-N-R officers. Editor of the online literary magazine The Smoking Poet Zinta Aistars talked with Heywood for a preview.
Heywood will talk at Kazoo Books on Parkview Avenue October 21 beginning at 7 p.m. His interview with Zinta Aistars will also appear in the December issue of The Smoking Poet.
Other Events
A program called “WomenFolk and Blues” will be presented by musician Patricia Pettinga at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum on October 21. Designed to entertain and inform, the show will feature songs and biographical facts about Ma Rainey, Maybelle Carter, Malvina Reynolds, Sippie Wallace and others starting at 7 p.m. in the Stryker Theatre.
Crawlspace Eviction’s October improv comedy show is called “Febrezy Does It.” It’s October 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. at Farmers Alley Theatre in downtown Kalamazoo.
Visitors to the Air Zoo in Portage on October 22 will have the chance to learn about birds and how they fly. “Super Science Saturday: Natural Flyers” will be presented at 11 a.m. and at 1 and 3 p.m.
“Spooky Science Saturday” is from 11 a.m to 5 p.m. October 22 at the Kingman Museum in Battle Creek. Hayrides, interactive science stations and giveaways are all included.
An afternoon of music and poetry starts at 3 p.m. on October 23 in Kellogg Community College’s Davidson Visual and Performing Arts Center Auditorium. The event, titled “Schubertiade” is in honor of early nineteenth century Austrian composer Franz Peter Schubert.
Residents in Kalamazoo and Portage will celebrate “Food Day” on October 24, with events at Gorilla Gourmet, People’s Food Co-op, KVCC, Tabitha Farm Urban Homestead and Community Garden, and Fire Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative.
The annual “Holiday Card Walk” will be held at Celery Flats Historical Area in Portage starting in November. Groups, clubs, organizations, and families are invited to participate by submitting winter holiday-themed 4 feet by 8 feet plywood cards.
