GFO's Writers' Forum Meets February 12th

Hello Aspiring Writers,

The Writers' Forum will meet on Saturday, February 12th, from 11:45 a.m.
until 1:45 p.m. at the Genealogical Forum of Oregon. We meet the second Saturday of each month.

Everyone is welcome, whether you have participated before or not. This is your chance to get started writing or improve your writing, whether you are writing for yourself, for others, or plan to enter the GFO writing contest this year.

We learn about good writing techniques -- write and read what we write to each other. Without exception, everyone who has participated in this group over the last six years writes better than they did when they started.

This year we are working with Roy Peter Clark's Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer published by Little, Brown and Company in 2006.
Each year we work with a book, but this particular book is making more difference In our writing than any other book we've worked with. We'll be working with Now we are working more specifically on language and in December we will be working with Tool 20 Workshop: "Choose the Number of Elements with a Purpose in Mind."

Bring your lunch if you would like.

Peggy

GFO Illinois Group Meeting Saturday 2/12/11

Two special programs are planned.

The Illinois Interest Group (9:30-11:30 a.m. in the Higgins Room) will have a presentation on the ³Thoughts and Antics of Abe Lincoln² -- Abe liked to tease, to write doggerel, to pull tricks to amuse his friends, and more.
We¹ll talk about a number of such events, and how they made Abe the man he was.
The discussion leader will be Kristy Gravlin of Illinois, and with Lincoln heritage.
All are welcome to join the group.

The Monthly Meeting of GFO (2:00-3:30 p.m. in the Library Room) The topic will be ³The Life of Abraham Lincoln² -- A completely different program about the life history of the 16th president, this is a ³time line² approach with as many lesser known events as could be found.
Even if you know Lincoln pretty well, you are likely to learn new things about him.
The discussion leader will be Duane Funk who researches family in Illinois.
Again, all are welcome to join the group.

If you know someone who would be interested in hearing about Lincoln¹s life, bring them along...
even if they are not members, and/or genealogists.

Hoping to see you there!
Kristy and Duane

GFO Heritage Scrapbooking Meeting

Want to get your old photos into a safe place and have fun doing it? If so then join us on Feb. 6 from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Higgins Room of GFO.
Bring you album, old photos (or copies) and papers and we'll provide some of the tools to help you. Or bring your laptop and do some digital scrapbooking (did Santa bring you a new scrapbooking program?)

Please let me know if you wish to join us or have any questions. Hope to see all you Super Bowl widows/widowers there!

Regards,
Bonnie LaDoe
bladoe@aol.com