https://rossmoor-hcc.com/events Rossmoor History & Culture Club upcoming events Rossmoor History &amp; Culture Club Wild Apricot - membership management software and more en Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:52:10 GMT Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:52:10 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ﾊ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 nonmembes to registerto 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><img src="https://rossmoor-hcc.com/resources/Pictures/campus-page.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0"> <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; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 12px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);"><font face="Google Sans, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;">The Port of Chicago, operated by the <span data-sfc-cp="" data-sfc-root="ep" data-sfc-cb="" data-sfc-inited="2" data-copy-service-computed-style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);"><a data-ved="2ahUKEwiD4uje4KeVAxVvCjQIHYYhGaUQy_kOegoIAggACAEIBhAF" data-hveid="CAIIAAgBCAYQBQ" href="https://www.iipd.com/" data-copy-service-computed-style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(26, 13, 171); border-bottom: 0px rgb(26, 13, 171);"><u>Illinois International Port District (IIPD)</u></a></span>, is North America's largest inland port and a vital tri-modal freight hub. Located</font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <img src="https://rossmoor-hcc.com/resources/Pictures/port%20chicago%20monterrey.jpeg" alt="" title="" border="0" align="right" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <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; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 12px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);"><font face="Google Sans, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;on Chicago's Southeast Side, it links Great Lakes shipping to the Mississippi River system.How did i ge here? 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