Linda Schuyler to share Degrassi memories at Beaches Bookfest this afternoon

The Beaches Bookfest continues this afternoon (Sunday, March 8) with a presentation by Linda Schuyler (co-creator and producer of the Degrassi TV show franchise).

She will be reading from her memoir The Mother of All Degrassi: A Memoir, at 2:30 p.m. today at the Beach Starbucks, 1960 Queen St. E.

Schuyler will share her personal stories about the grit and determination necessary to make it as a woman and entrepreneur in the burgeoning independent Canadian television industry of the early 1980s.

The five-week-long Beaches Bookfest is a free-to-attend authors series taking place on Sundays at the Starbucks in the Beach. The bookfest opened on March 1. Following a reading by the authors, there will be a question-and-answer session with the audience.

After this afternoon’s session with Schuyler, the remaining Beaches Bookfest events are:

Sunday, March 15 – Brett Popplewell, author and associate professor of journalism at Carleton University, will read from his award-winning national bestseller Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past.

In the book, Popplewell embarks on a six-year journey to uncover the life of Dag Aabye, an 81-year-old marathon-running hermit living in a school bus in the British Columbia wilderness. Critics have called the book Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods.

Sunday, March 22 – Royal historian and author Carolyn Harris will reading from Raising Royalty: 1,000 Years of Royal Parenting. The book examines how royal parents raised their children over the past 1,000 years.

Sunday, March 29 – Author Muriel Lennox, who has spent a lifetime working with and writing about horses, will read from her best seller Northern Dancer: The Legend and His Legacy.

The book tells the story of a legendary racehorse dismissed for his small size. Not only did Northern Dancer horse win the 1964 Kentucky Derby in record time, but his descendants today dominate horse racing all over the world. Do you want to know why there is a street named Northern Dancer Boulevard in the Beach? Find out about this famous racehorse’s connection to the community.

All ages are welcome to attend the Beaches Bookfest, and all presentations are free. However, seating is limited in the Starbucks at Queen Street East and Kenilworth Avenue.

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