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Poets Jane Smiley, Judy Bebelaar, Carmela Lanza and Maija Devine will read their work while participating in the Abroad Writer's Workshop in Como, Italy

Author Reading and Book Talk at East Bay Booksellers with Jonestown massacre survivors as authors And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of People’s Temple from High School to Jonestown is the only book about the Jonestown tragedy that tells the story of the children. The book's author, Judy Bebelaar, who taught the Temple teens in San Francisco will read from her book. The reading also includes authors Deborah Layton and Julia Scheeres.  Layton, who wrote Seductive Poison,  escaped from Jonestown…

In Recognition of the 40th Anniversary of Jonestown, the California Historical Society will host an OPEN HOUSE in San Francisco for survivors, family members, and the public who are invited to spend time together in the California Historical Society’s gallery.

Judy Bebelaar,  bay area poet and author, joins fellow poets at Lyrics and Dirges, a monthly reading series. Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series that features a mix of prominent, emerging, and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community that lives in the Bay Area. Every third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. Join us on July 17th, 2019 for a wonderful night…

In September 1976, Reverend Jim Jones chose San Francisco’s Opportunity II High, a public alternative school where Bebelaar and Cabral taught, as the one he wanted the Peoples Temple teenagers to attend. And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown introduces 28 of those Temple teenagers and focuses on the fifteen Bebelaar and Cabral knew best of those who attended the small school until their sudden departures to Jonestown in the spring and summer of 1977. Most never returned.