Look for Betty MacDonald with Seattle author

The Port Townsend Public Library hosts award-winning author Paula Becker to talk about her recently published biography on Betty MacDonald, whose best-selling 1945 memoir, “The Egg and I,” was based on her life in the Chimacum Valley.

The Seattle writer and historian is set to talk about “Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, The Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and I” beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 19 at the library, 1220 Lawrence St.

An expert on the history of world’s fairs, Becker is also the co-author of “The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Its Legacy” and “Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington’s First World’s Fair,” and she is featured in the documentary films “When Seattle Invented the Future: The 1962 World’s Fair,” which aired on PBS stations nationwide; “Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington’s Forgotten World’s Fair,” which aired on Seattle’s KCTS-TV; and “Structural Engineers of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair,” which she narrated.

Becker has written for HistoryLink.org since 2001 and is a staff historian. Her essays on the site, more than 300 in total, document all aspects of Washington state history.

Ride the trails with equestrian author

Equestrian author and avid trail rider Kim McCarrel is to talk about her latest book, “Riding Southwest Washington Horse Trails,” at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18 at the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave., Port Hadlock.

McCarrel began writing horse trail guidebooks in 2001 and has since explored, mapped and published written descriptions of trails and horse camps throughout Oregon and southwest Washington.

Her books, which have been called “must-haves” for trail riders, focus on the trails between the coast and the crest of the Cascades, and from Olympia to the Oregon border.

McCarrel resides in Bend, Oregon, with her husband, Steve, two Portuguese water dogs and her two Tennessee walker mares, Jane and Tex.

The presentation is cosponsored by the Buckhorn Range Chapter of the Back Country Horsemen of Washington.

PT Songlines hosts concert, participatory sing

The PT Songlines choir hosts its Winter Concert and Participatory Sing at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 14 in the Cotton Building, 607 Water St.

The audience is invited to join in on easy-to-learn rounds and layered songs. All proceeds are to be donated to strengthen the work of Dove House Advocacy Services, which provides confidential crisis intervention and advocacy services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and general crime.

Suggested donation is $12; no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Community members are also invited to join the next Songlines singing season, which meets at 7 p.m. on Tuesday nights starting Feb. 7 at the RoseWind Common House. For more information, contact Gretchen Sleicher at 643-1595 or gsleicher@igc.org.