Since last summer, two women have been working to re-energize the Tucson Festival of Books' volunteer program, which does much of the heavy lifting for the event.
Bill Finley Special to the Arizona Daily Star In her professional life, Bimi Huebner was an engineer who helped manage nuclear weapon systems for the United States Navy … perfect training, as it happened, for the job she does now.
Consider this: Next week’s Tucson Festival of Books, on March 4 and 5, will involve more than 300 authors, attract more than 100,000 people and cost more than $1 million to stage.She is helped by three part-time specialists in the months leading up to the event, but most of the lifting each year is done by community volunteers.
Huebner and Aronoff drew up a grid of volunteer slots they wanted to fill for next weekend’s festival. The total came to 2,400 slots, some 2,000 hours of time. It is impossible to measure how much volunteers mean to the book festival, but Aronoff said it is still fun to try. FOOTNOTESThe UA Poetry Center will host a celebration of life and legacy honoring the late Richard Shelton Saturday, March 4, at 6 p.m. It is scheduled for book festival weekend so Shelton’s out-of-town colleagues can attend while in Tucson. Shelton was an important part of the Poetry Center for almost 60 years. He authored 11 books of poetry and creative nonfiction. In 1974, he established the prison writing workshop program that continues today. Shelton died on Nov. 29 at the age of 89.
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