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SUMMARY:March First Friday: Book Signing with Diana Pabst Parsell
DESCRIPTION:Teri Ann's will host author Diana Pabst Parsell for a book sign
 ing event during March First Friday.\nDiana Parsell is a graduate of Marie
 tta High School (1970) and Marietta College (1974).\n\nDiana is the author
  of an acclaimed biography describing the life and globetrotting travels o
 f 19th-century journalist Eliza Scidmore\, who left a major legacy in Wash
 ington\, D.C.\, as the visionary and chief champion of efforts to plant Ja
 panese cherry trees along the Potomac.\n\nThe book\, Eliza Scidmore: The T
 railblazing Journalist Behind Washington’s Cherry Trees (Oxford Universi
 ty Press\, 2023)\, has been featured by NBC’s “Today” Show\, Wall St
 reet Journal\, Japanese TV\, National Geographic and other media. A Japane
 se documentary on Scidmore is now in the works. The book was named a final
 ist for the 2024 biography award of the Society of Midland Authors\, repre
 senting writers from 12 states in the Midwest.\n\nEliza Scidmore was born 
 on the American frontier just before the Civil War and rose from modest be
 ginnings to become one of the most highly accomplished women of her day. A
 t a time when few Americans traveled much beyond their own backyards\, she
  took to the road writing about little-known places. Her works included po
 pular guidebooks on Alaska\, Japan\, Java\, China and India\, and hundreds
  of articles for leading magazines and newspapers.\n\nMarietta native Dian
 a Parsell has been a resident of the Washington\, D.C.\, area for more tha
 n 45 years. She and her husband\, Bruce\, an economist and retired intelli
 gence analyst\, lived in the late 1990s in Indonesia during his job postin
 g at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta. Their most interesting assignment during
  that period was escorting the late President Jimmy Carter and his wife\, 
 Rosalynn\, to Bali in June 1999\, before the couple went on to Jakarta to 
 monitor Indonesia’s groundbreaking democratic elections.\n\nToday\, Dian
 a and Bruce reside in Falls Church\, Va.\, six miles outside Washington. I
 n an outgrowth of her extensive book research at the Library of Congress\,
  Diana volunteers as a docent for public tours of its historic Jefferson B
 uilding.
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LOCATION:Teri Ann's\, 290 Front Street\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, United S
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