On February 6, Medora’s Book Club explores The Life and Times of Hannah Craft, a novel that pieces together the story of America’s First Black Woman Novelist, Hannah Crafts. In 1857, a young black woman escaped enslavement from a North Carolina plantation, fleeing to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a

Join Simon Kerry for a presentation on his new publication, Miss Chase: Santa Barbara's Trailblazer, chronicling the life, prescience, importance and legacy of Pearl Chase and her work in Santa Barbara and beyond. Pearl Chase’s strength of personality, maturity, intelligence and leadership qualities formed the bedrock that enabled her to look outwards and achieve so