An Evening with Russell Shorto
6 pm – 9 pm September 15, 2023
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto
The Festival of Books is hosting a Keynote Author Reception, An Evening with Russell Shorto, and you are invited!
Join us in the wonderful Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Loretto for an author keynote reception and fundraiser with Russell Shorto, best-selling author of Small time: A story of my family and the mob.
Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, live music with pianist, Robin Malloy, a raffle, and more!
Proceeds support our fundraiser to raise $6000 to support Dolly Parton’s Imagination Libraries in Bedford, Cambria, and Somerset Counties. That money will put books in the hands of 230 children across our region!.
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with thanks to our sponsor
A look back at our
Friday Keynote & Author Reception
2021 with Annette Dashofy
Annette Dashofy is the USA Today best-selling author of the Zoe Chambers mystery series about a paramedic and deputy coroner in rural 
Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance Township. Her latest release, Death by Equine, is a standalone about a veterinarian at a second-rate thoroughbred racetrack seeking the truth about her mentor’s mysterious death. She and her husband live on ten acres of what was her grandfather’s dairy farm in Washington County with their very spoiled cat, Kensi.
Annettes’ latest book is Death by Equine, a standalone mystery where veterinarian Jessie Cameron’s mentor is killed by one of his 
equine patients, she suspects the death is anything but accidental. Her search for answers is thwarted by everyone from well-meaning friends to
the police. Undaunted, she discovers illegal activities and deceit perpetrated by the man she considered a father figure. Too late, she realizes that her quest for the truth has put her in the crosshairs of a devious killer desperate to silence her.
Annette also presented “The Allure of Mystery” for the 2020 Virtual Festival of Books. You can view her presentation below.