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Community Ink: Local Author Series
This community-focused series is designed to spotlight and celebrate the literary talent of Western Pennsylvania. This platform creates space for local authors to share their work, discuss their creative process, and connect directly with readers. These events feature book readings, lectures, signings, and Q&A sessions, fostering an intimate and interactive atmosphere. We've hosted authors like Marie Benedict, Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel, Andy McPhee, and Clare Beams to name a few.
Our hope with Community Ink is to strengthen ties between authors and their local audience; showcase writers across genres, from fiction and poetry to memoirs and academic works; offer insights into the writing process, publishing journey, and the power of storytelling while providing visibility and encouragement for authors to thrive within their community.
Pittsburgh has an incredible baseball history with great players, teams, and historic moments, but few realize that Pittsburgh has often been in the lead in ballpark design and development. Local author, Mark Fatla, will join us to discuss his book, Pittsburgh's Historic Ballparks. The book's photographs chronicle the nine ballparks that hosted major league baseball in Pittsburgh between 1876 and the present, including the Negro Leagues, including the design and construction phases, the major changes as parks expanded and aged, and eventually, their demolition. Fatla's book also contains rare glimpses of behind-the-scenes areas.
Note: This program occurs after the library is closed - please park in the back or side lots and enter the building through the doors on the far right in the back.
As a young attorney, Mark authored more than 200 Federal Court opinions, including several in one of Pittsburgh’s most important civil rights cases. As Executive Director of several community development non-profits over a 25 year career, he wrote hundreds of grant proposals and reports. As a freelancer, he has written feature cover stories for the Pittsburgh City Paper, as well as alternative weekly newspapers in Baltimore and Cleveland. Pittsburgh’s Historic Ballparks is his first book, published in 2023 and he is currently working on the sequel, “Pittsburgh’s Historic Stadiums and Arenas”, due to publish in 2025. He has presented at national and regional conferences, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Main Street Center and others. He is a lifelong baseball fan and lives on Northside in an 1870 house just a short walk from the site of 4 of the historic ballparks he’ll discuss.
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Adults Only
Adults 21+ only please.
After Library Closes
This program occurs after the library closes.
Registration
Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (SCL).