Two more lectures coming up in Big Read
Published 4:00 pm Tuesday, January 24, 2012
- <p>The eight-course Chinese New Year banquet, served buffet-style, was sold out at Happy Garden restaurant, Sunday, Jan. 22, the eve of the start of the traditional 15-day celebration. The banquet was held in conjunction with Fishtrap's Big Read, which centers around the book "The Joy Luck Club."</p>
ENTERPRISE – Fishtrap’s Big Read program continues in the coming weeks with two final evening lectures.
Thus far, the Big Read has drawn strong crowds for lectures ranging from a book discussion of “The Joy Luck Club” to a presentation about North America’s first Asian-American artist. (Unfortunatley, Greg Noke’s lecture this week about the Hells Canyon massacre was canceled due to bad roads.)
On Wednesday, Feb. 1, Amy Zahm, a licensed acupuncturist who brought Chinese medicine to Wallowa County five years ago, will discuss the ways that developments in Chinese medical theory and practice paralleled the development of culture and philosophy in China.
This presentation is scheduled at 7 p.m. at the Fishtrap Coffin House, 400 E. Grant Street in Enterprise.
Amy has a long history with Fishtrap, having taken a class from poet Kim Stafford when Stafford was the writer-in-residence in Wallowa County. Since that time she has become an expert in her field of Asian medicine, and since returning to the county has opened a successful acupuncture business.
The final lecture with archaeologist and art historian Dr. Chuimei Ho will take place , Feb. 8., at 7 p.m. in Toma’s conference room.
She will profile the lives of several Chinese women during the early days of Chinese immigration in the West.
Her presentation is particularly poignant since, on a recent visit to China, she and her husband found the home-village of many of the miners killed at the Chinese massacre in Hells Canyon.
