April 14, 2023
Join us Friday Evening after the Opening Reception
6:45pm-7:30pm Author: Mindy Hardwick
Cannon Beach Library-31 N Hemlock Cannon Beach
7:45pm-9:00pm Musicians/Fisher Poets: Jon Broderick and Jay Speakman
MacGregor's Whiskey Bar

Mindy Hardwick is an author and educator whose stories are often set in the Pacific Northwest celebrating art and community. Mindy's middle grade novel, Some Stories Are Not Seen, is based on a fictional Cannon Beach and was inspired by her volunteer work with the Haystack Rock Awareness Program. Her newest book, The World Is a Sniff, is a dog story for middle grade readers but all dog lovers will enjoy hearing about Stormy's "tails from the beach" including meeting the Cannon Beach elk. Mindy also writes small town contemporary romance and published a memoir about teaching a poetry workshop to teens in juvenile detention. In her day job, Mindy works as an on-line high school English teacher which allows her to spend a lot of time at her home in Cannon Beach where she can often be found walking on the beach and dreaming new story ideas. ​

Jay Speakman packs about three dozen harmonicas and plays most of them during show. He’s a bluesman, he’s a cowboy, he’s a gypsy, he’s a heavy loaded freight train going up a steep hill, he’s heavy traffic on El Camino Real. He writes lyrics that take listeners downeast to the mackereling and and lobstering grounds off the Maine coast, to the harbors and halibut grounds of the Gulf of Alaska.
Jon Broderick's guitar and occasional old-time banjo playing keep the sound friendly and back porch. With melodies both manouche and American, his songs travel from the mudflats of Bristol Bay, through southeast Alaska’s narrow channels, clear to the bistros of the Silicon Valley.
Speakman and Broderik can keep fans tapping their feet and smiling all evening.