J. Don Cook to Read at Norman Depot
Photojournalist J. Don Cook will read from his latest book, Shooting from the Hip, at the Norman Santa Fe Depot Friday, September 9, from 6:30 - 9:00pm in conjunction with the 2nd Friday Circuit of Art. Cook will be available to sign books throughout the evening. Light refreshments will be served and music will be provided by Arabesque. The reading is free and open to the public.
Cook, a resident of Oklahoma City, is an award-winning photojournalist, artist, poet, and business entrepreneur. Nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize and named News Photographer of the Year seven times by the Oklahoma Press Association, his photographs have appeared in such magazines as National Geographic and Time.
In this heartfelt tribute to the spirit and people of Oklahoma, one of the state's most distinguished photojournalists shows that he is equally talented as a photographer and writer. Showcasing black-and-white photographs and fifty short essays, Shooting from the Hip portrays Oklahoma's people, animals, lifestyles, landscapes, and weather in all their diversity. Cowboys, kids, tornados, trucks, rattlesnakes, fiddlers—J. Don Cook has seen them all, and through his poignant essays, he allows us not only to see them but to understand them as he does.
"Plunge into this wonderful book and be delighted by the luminous images of J. Don Cook. Some will make you cry; some will make you smile, but you will be moved."
—James Garner
The Performing Arts Studio is offering its second Dutch Oven Cooking Workshop on September 10, 2011, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. at the historic Santa Fe Depot. Participants will learn the basics of Dutch oven cooking to create cobblers, main dishes, breads and other foods in a camp setting or in the backyard. 
