TO OUR MEMBERS, GUEST AUTHORS AND

FRIENDS: The LSD Board is planning a full season

of literary luncheons in 2022

Membership renewals will be mailed mid-June

and must be received by August 5

Award-winning Historian and Professor, Vasser College

THE BARBIZON

The Hotel That Set Women Free

 February Guest Author

Michaela Carter 

Poet , Painter and Novelist is the author of

LEONORA IN THE MORNING LIGHT

one of “the most anticipated books of 2021.”

March Guest Author

JULIA SWEIG

Senior Research Fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs

LADY BIRD JOHNSON: Hiding in Plain Sight

                                  April Guest Author

MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD

New York Times Bestselling author of SEATING ARRANGEMENTS

 

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT OUR 2022 SEASON

Guest Author Alice Hoffman chats with

President Nancy Cunningham at Thunderbird Country Club

prior to the first luncheon of our 2020 Season

Donna Martin (below) prepares for LSD Luncheon at Toscana with Elizabeth Letts

(CLICK ON OUR SCRAPBOOK FOR MANY MORE MEMBER PHOTOS)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Douglas Smith, Historian, with his mother and LSD Sponsor, Annette Smith prior to his talk on THE RUSSIAN JOB: HOW AMERICA SAVED THE SOVIET UNION FROM RUIN .

(Rancho Mirage Library, November 12, 2019)

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Founding Sponsor Jean Viereck, Patron Fran Muir and Dr. Douglas Smith

                      Library Benefactor Libby Hoffman with Douglas Smith

                      

      LSD President Nancy Cunningham with Dr. Douglas Smith                                       

Memories of LSD Meetings and Members

See Scrapbook for additional member photosJS

 Guest Author Whitney Scharer (center) with students from Palm Desert High School preceding  her luncheon presentation on THE AGE OF LIGHT.  

Below: Authors table with Whitney Scharer at April, 2019 luncheon at La Quinta C.C.