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Brenda Nakamoto will give four readings in the month ahead on her new book, Peach Farmer's Daughter, including a 7:30 p.m. June 18 one at the Avid Reader in Davis.

The spotlight will soon fall on the creative works of two 嘿嘿视频 staff members:

Cody Sheehy鈥檚 documentary film on Mongolia, featuring 嘿嘿视频 scientists and musicians, will air on select PBS stations nationwide on June 15.

will broadcast Voices of Mongolia at 9 a.m. and noon.

Most people image Mongolia as a vast unspoiled landscape full of wildlife and nomadic herders, untouched by the modern world, according to writer-producer Sheehy. But that idyllic world has been turned upside in recent years by economic growth, especially the mining industry, and climate change, he said.

Sheehy is a program representative in the Department of Plant Sciences and also works as an associate producer for Sacramento鈥檚 PBS television affiliate, KVIE. 

Among the interview subjects are Cooperative Extension specialists Mel George and Ken Tate, and 嘿嘿视频 professors Ed DePeters and Frank Mitloehner of animal science. Original music by graduate students and the Davis Summer Symphony is also included.

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Brenda Nakamoto is scheduled to give four readings in Davis and Sacramento on her new book, Peach Farmer鈥檚 Daughter (Roan Press, 2011). The dates and locations are:

  • June 18鈥7:30 p.m., Avid Reader, 617 Second St., Davis.
  • June 24鈥6-8 p.m., Launch Party, ThinkHouse Collective, 1726 11th St., Sacramento.
  • July 12鈥擭oon-1 p.m., 嘿嘿视频 Bookstore.
  • July 16鈥4:30-5:30 p.m., Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, 1900 Alhambra Boulevard, Sacramento.

This is the first book for Nakamoto, a 22-year campus employee and executive assistant in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean鈥檚 Office. In Peach Farmer鈥檚 Daughter, she writes about her childhood as a sansei (third-generation Japanese-American) growing up on a peach farm in Gridley. The collection of stories focus on family, the land, farming and the ethnic melting pot of the Central Valley.

Nakamoto has participated in local writing workshops and taken classes in the 嘿嘿视频 Extension writing program. She penned Peach Farmer鈥檚 Daughter because she 鈥渞eally missed the farming life.鈥 As a mother of two young children and caregiver for her elderly father, the Davis resident felt drawn in recent years to her pastoral past.

鈥淚t was a time of both hope and regret,鈥 she said about her writing process. 鈥淲riting about peaches and family helped me, and it helped my dad, too, because he liked listening to drafts of my stories.鈥

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Clifton B. Parker, Dateline, (530) 752-1932, cparker@ucdavis.edu

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