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November 2018
In Recognition of the 40th Anniversary of 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.
Find out more »Open House: For Friends And Family Of Those Who Perished in Jonestown
This event is for friends and family of Jonestown survivors. Author Judy Bebelaar will read from And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers From People's Temple to Jonestown. Open House for friends and family of those who perished in Jonestown, and the public. Details: Judy Bebelaar and Jannie Dresser will be at a book table for And Then They Were Gone. There will be no book sales, but come to the table to find out about the book!
Find out more »December 2018
Jonestown book authors read at Book Passage San Francisco
Reading from And Then They Were Gone
Find out more »March 2019
AWP Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
“Turning Tragedy into Hope: Teaching Transformation Through Writing Panel presentation moderated by Judy Bebelaar
Find out more »June 2019
Jonestown book Wins Nonfiction Authors Association Silver Award
And Then They Were Gone, a book about Jonestown teenagers, wins the Nonfiction Authors Association Book Award (Silver Winner) prize.
Find out more »Jonestown book receives Northern California Book Award Nomination
And Then They Were Gone, Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in General Non-Fiction as one of the best works by a northern California author published in 2018.
Find out more »July 2019
Lyrics and Dirges Poetry Reading at Pegasus Books
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…
Find out more »Jonestown author reads at Books Benicia
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.
Find out more »December 2020
Jonestown author reads from And Then They Were Gone at SF Public Library
Judy Bebelaar, bay area poet and author of Jonestown's book And Then They Were Gone will read from her book. The book tells the story from the perspective of the teachers who knew, loved, and lost many students who died. The book provides the social context for understanding Opportunity High, People’s Temple, and Jonestown as part of the complex decade of turbulent cultural change. The murder-suicides in Jonestown on November 18, 1978, constituted the largest mass death of American…
Find out more »April 2021
Jonestown Zoom book discussion at Berkeley Public Library
Bay Area poet and author Judy Bebelaar will read and discuss her book about Jonestown. And Then They Were Gone tells the story of the teenagers of People's Temple.
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