For the Love of Guinea
by Darcy Williamson
Party and Book-Signing
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Foresters Bar in Downtown McCall
5:30 – 7:30 pm
When Darcy left McCall in 1980 for adventures in an African diamond mining camp, her going-away party was held at Foresters.
Over forty years later, she’s mined her own journals and memory to tell a multitude of colorful African tales.
We’ll have books for sale and tapas to share. Join us to celebrate the publication of For the Love of Guinea and get yours personally signed. The bar will be open for drinks to purchase.
For the Love of Guinea by Darcy Williamson
By the time I had reached the age of thirty, my life had been akin to a branch blown into a fast-flowing stream. It would float freely for a time before getting hung up on a pile of debris or captured in an eddy where it spun in circles until storms rose the water high enough to again serge downstream. The journey was meant to take me to open water. But again, and again my life became snagged, beached, and caught in eddies.
There are many challenges in the river of life. We are pushed along by its current, hoping to be carried by the flow, making plans, making choices, wanting control. Yet, how many plans worked out as we had expected? How many choices had we believed to be right, turned out wrong? And how much control does one really have? Spending three months in a West African diamond exploration camp in 1980, answered many of these questions. At the end of the adventure, I returned home a changed person.
