June 14th (TWO events!) at the Henry Miller Library: Jerry Cimino of the Beat Museum!

On Sundays from July through September 2015, the Henry Miller Memorial Library will host some of the country’s most accomplished authors, artists, journalists, and thinkers in its new “Under the Persimmon Tree” series!

June 14th features Jerry Cimino, founder and director of San Francisco’s inimitable Beat Museum!

Jerry will be presenting both an afternoon and evening session at The Henry Miller Memorial Library on June 14th:

4pm Session: “The Beat Generation in America”
Though they met in New York City, the Beat Generation gained international fame here on the west coast in 1957. How the Beat Generation influenced American culture and how that influence spread around the world.
Discussion and reading performance with Q&A.
This event is by donation. For more information and to reserve your spot, click here.
7:30 Session: “This is The Beat Generation”
In a multimedia performance, Jerry Cimino, The Director of The Beat Museum in San Francisco, will tell the story of The Beat Generation, how they met, lived, loved and wrote along with who they influenced and how they changed the world. Photos, stories, readings and movie clips.

 

This event is also by donation. For more information and to reserve your spot, click here.
The Henry Miller Memorial Library is located in the heart of Big Sur, 25 miles south of Carmel and ¼ miles south of Nepenthe restaurant on Highway 1.     Questions?  Call us! 831-667-2574.