"A Spooktacular Halloween" at Haney Heritage, Salmon Arm

What are your plans for this weekend?  Try a spooky trail walk and a new book!  Haney Heritage offers a spooky trail walk for both little people,

                                                               and young adults:

Spooktacular - October 27 & 28                               

For two nights the village transforms into a scary attraction for the annual Spooktacular. With the terrifying spook trail and haunted house, there will be menacing creatures around every dark corner. This popular event has been a crowd pleaser for years and always brings something new. For the little spooks, enjoy the Story Book Trail, the Coloring Room and more.

Gates open at 5:00pm. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

New Book - A Spooktacular Halloween

Local author, Kay McCracken and local children's book illustrator, Bob Beeson collaborated on this new book.  The book will not only be sold at the event, but also acted out!  A Spooktacular Halloween is a story set at R.J. Haney Heritage Village and Museum's annual two-night Halloween Spooktacular. Author Kay McCracken (as Mrs. Orangebottom, a character from the book) and local historian, Dave Harper will read and act out the story.

Orangebottom

Books are for sale at the event (and at bookstores and other venues around

town) for $5.00 with $1.00 from every book sale donated to the Literacy

Alliance of the Shuswap Society (LASS).

Author Background - Kay McCracken

Local author Kay McCracken wrote the best-selling memoir A Raven in My Heart:

Reflections of a Bookseller. In 2003, McCracken co-founded Word on the

Lake...a festival for readers and writers; she continues to serve on the

board of the Shuswap Association of Writers (SAW). Her memoir workshop was

well received at Word on the Lake and at an event for the Literacy Alliance

of the Shuswap Society (LASS). She continues to turn out a monthly column

³Write On² for the Monthly edition of the Friday AM. She's a founding member

of Gracesprings Collective, and is an active member of the Federation of BC

Writers, having acted as a board member and regional rep for six years.

McCracken loves living in the diverse and friendly community of Salmon Arm.

Biographies of McCracken and Beeson

Spooky reading to you all!  Check the Alexandria reference link to the right to see what Halloween'ish books you may want to sign out and Nettrekker to see what web sites this database suggests.  Ms. M.