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Join us for an inspiring evening with Scott Hoffman, winner of the James Beard M. F. K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, and his wife Mary Jo Hoffman, an aeronautical engineer-turned-artist.
In 2012, Steve Hoffman thought he was leaving ordinary life behind, moving with his wife and two children from Minnesota to a tiny winemaking village in southern France. His goal? To translate his lifelong love of France into an idyllic six-month escape.
However, reality didn't match his picturesque vision. The village was tired, locals uninterested, and the food not truly French. Life felt like a cultural puzzle. Everything that had worked before no longer did, forcing Hoffman to reorient himself. What did it mean to be a husband and father in this unexpected setting? Join us for a discussion of his memoir, A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France, where whimsy meets cultural exploration.
Joining Steve will be his wife, Mary Jo Hoffman, who has recently published a stunning book of photographs on the "art of noticing."
The Library was designed by the firm of Bull, Stockwell, and Allen. The architectural style is that of the 19th century railroad yard in Tiburon.
The site is part of the landfill of the 1890s done to create the railroad yard. Windows frame views of the marsh lands and Old St. Hilary's Open Space preserve.
The expanded library was designed by Brown Reynolds Watford Architecture and added approximately 9,000 square feet, bringing the total size of the library to about 19,500 square feet.
