Author Events

Meet Bestselling Author, Sally Fallon Morell

Monday, September 19 at 7pm
Calvert Library Prince Frederick

Do you care about the food your family eats?  Meet bestselling author of Nourishing Traditions and Eat Fat Lose Fat, Sally Fallon Morell at the Calvert Library Prince Frederick.  Calvert County Chapter of Weston Price Foundation joins up with Calvert Eats Local to host this nationally-known speaker.  Fallon will present a shortened version of her seminar on "Traditional Diets" covering the work of Dr. Weston A. Price and introducing the principles of healthy traditional diets and practical steps to change your diet for the better.  Fallon is the co-founder and President of the Weston A. Price Foundation, nutrition researcher, chef, journalist, homemaker and author.  Her cookbook, Nourishing Traditions “challenges politically correct nutrition and the diet dictocrats.”  Nourishing Traditions will be available for sale and signing.

Meet COL (retired) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH

Psychological Effects of Combat: Battlefront to Homefront presented by Dr. Ritchie and Nicole Johnson Starr Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7pm Calvert Library Prince Frederick

Combat veterans and their families are at high risk for mental health problems.  The numbers of servicemen and servicewomen diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has risen significantly over the past decade.  While the military once held an unofficial “don’t ask don’t tell” policy about mental health, now, not only is there conversation but the word “epidemic” is used and every family member is impacted.  Visit Calvert Library Prince Frederick on Tuesday, October 11 at 7pm for an engaging presentation on the “Psychological Effects of Combat:  Battlefront to Homefront.”  Speakers will include internationally-recognized expert, Dr. Elspeth Ritchie and passionate advocate, Nicole Johnson Starr.

Colonel (Ret) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, recently retired from the Army after serving the last five years of her career as Director of the Proponency of Behavioral Health Director at the Office of the US Army Surgeon General.  Currently, Dr. Ritchie is the Chief Clinical Officer, Department of Mental Health, for the District of Columbia.  She trained at Harvard, George Washington, Walter Reed, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and has completed fellowships in both forensic and preventive and disaster psychiatry. She is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Her assignments and other missions have taken her to Korea, Somalia, Iraq, and Cuba.  She has over 130 publications, mainly in the areas of forensic, disaster, suicide, ethics, military combat and operational psychiatry, and women’s health issues. Major publications include “The Mental Health Response to the 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon,” “Mental Health Interventions for Mass Violence and Disaster” and “Humanitarian Assistance and Health Diplomacy: Military-Civilian Partnership in the 2004 Tsunami Aftermath.” She is currently the senior editor on a forthcoming Military Medicine text on Combat and Operational Behavioral Health, the Textbook of Forensic Military Mental Health, and the Therapeutic Use of Canines in Army Medicine.

Nicole Johnson Starr grew up in a military family overseas, spending most of her childhood outside the United States, in Germany. After leaving home at 17, she joined the United States Air Force, immediately going overseas after training to serve with the 353rd Special Operations Group. Many years later, she joined the United States Army National Guard and has been serving with them since.  Throughout her life, she has witnessed trauma in the form of death, rape, and abuse; but it wasn’t until she went to Afghanistan with the 300th Battalion, in 2008, that she learned about PTSD. Since then, she has made it her life purpose to reach out to others, teaching about PTSD, how it affects the individual and family members. She is currently attending school with the intent to gain her Psy.D., and concurrently working to build a PTSD retreat for soldiers, firefighters and police, as well as their families. 

Some Past Events

Are you a budding writer wishing to meet published authors? Have you always wanted to own a signed copy of your favorite local author’s books? Come learn of the trials and tribulations authors in our community have faced in finding the path to getting their works published and share your own stories. We are offering a day of featured speakers, panels, exhibitors and book selling and signings as we celebrate The Writer’s Journey.

Bonus: Locally written books make great holiday gifts!

Saturday, November 20, 2010
All Day
Calvert Library
Prince Frederick

Peter Abresch Peter Allen Michael Buckley Helen Carson Kevin Clark Gary Clites Brenda Coleman Jack D’Ambrosio Edward Finch Preston Ford Jon Franklin Vince Gisriel, Jr. Pete Hurrey W. Michael Kelley Caldwell Lee Zachary Lindner Ray Charles Lockamy Margaret Mann Ron Miller Diana Pessagno Don Phillips Danny Queen Connie Reeves Elisavietta Ritchie Elpeth Cameron Ritchie Lucia St. Clair Robson Shannon Marie Sharpe Donald Shomette Richard Stack Stavros Janie Suss C. G. Sweeting Christine Trent Faith Tydings Daryl Urnosky Kathi Wallace James Ward Naomi Watkins Delphine Siggers Williams Hilda Wren Pershail Young

Meet Author Mildred Muhammad Author of Scared Silent will share her experience as a survivor of domestic violence. Tuesday, November 3, 2009 7:00 - 8:30pm Calvert Library Prince Frederick
Authors by the Bay, featuring Libby Cataldi Libby Cataldi, Author of Stay Close Sponsored by the Calvert Library Foundation This is a ticketed event. Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:00 - 3:30pm Calvert Library Prince Frederick
Meet the Authors Author of Apollos and Family Sins, Jack D’Ambrosio , Pete Hurrey, author of The Grease Monkey Gourmet, and Kevin Clark, author of The Smell of Baseball will be at the Calvert Library Prince Frederick to sell and sign their books. Perfect holiday gifts for your favorite man! Wednesday, December 9, 2009 7:00 - 8:30pm Calvert Library Prince Frederick