https://rossmoor-hcc.com/events Rossmoor History & Culture Club upcoming events Rossmoor History &amp; Culture Club Wild Apricot - membership management software and more en Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:03:17 GMT Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:03:17 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT <blockquote> <p align="center"><font face="Helvetica Neue" color="#9E0B0F" style="font-size: 24px;"><strong>SPEAKER: Alka Joshi, International<br> Best Selling Novelist</strong></font></p> </blockquote><img src="https://rossmoor-hcc.com/resources/Pictures/joshi2.png" alt="" title="" border="3" align="left" style="border-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 8px;" width="173" height="116"> <p style="line-height: 24px;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#000000">Alka Joshi weaves stories of India with traditional life, the arts and the power of travel and fragrance to seduce, tease and entice - as do her characters. They face the pivoting culture of 1950s India and Europe while the British live in the shadows of change and their strained awarene</font><font><font color="#000000">ss. Tales of&nbsp;</font><span style="">valiant strength, and characters that become friends, deliver a glimpse of India’s magic.</span></font></font></p> <p style="line-height: 24px;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">The Henna Artist was devoured by many book clubs including Reese Witherspoon’s. It has been translated into more than 20 languages and is being made into a Netflix series starring Freida Pinto. Readers have avidly consumed Joshi’s subsequent books.</font></p> <p style="line-height: 24px;"><img src="https://rossmoor-hcc.com/resources/Pictures/joshi1.png" alt="" title="" border="3" align="right" width="167" height="95" style="margin: 8px; border-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></p> <p style="line-height: 24px;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">Alka Joshi received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. A former advertising copywriter and marketing consultant, Alka was born in the Indian state of Rajasthan and came to the US as a child. She breathes life into her charact</font><span style=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">ers from the Monterey peninsula.</font></span></p> https://rossmoor-hcc.com/event-6421003 https://rossmoor-hcc.com/event-6421003 Tue, 01 Dec 2026 18:00:00 GMT <p><font face="MS Gothic" color="#000000">On Decemberﾊ1 at 10 am in the Fireside Room HCC welcomes Supervisory Interpretive Park Ranger Hilary Grabowska.ﾊ In full uniform Hilary will give an in-depth presentation on the often overlooked history of Port Chicago.ﾊ Registration is open now, and we encourage both members and non-members to register to do so by clicking <a href="https://rossmoor-hcc.com/event-6740851" target="_blank"><strong><font style="font-size: 18px;">here</font></strong></a></font></p> <p><img alt="hillary grabowska from www.nps.gov" src="data:image/jpeg;base64,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" data-csiid="fC9-avv2MK-r0PEPkcWBoAw_3" data-atf="1"><font face="MS Gothic" color="#000000"><strong><font style="font-size: 18px;"><br></font></strong></font></p> <p><br></p> <p data-sfc-cp="" data-sfc-root="ep" data-sfc-cb="" data-hveid="CAIIAAgBCAYQAg" data-copy-service-computed-style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; 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