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Today, writers conferences are held by several of the Club's branches, such as South Bay's East of Eden
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Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of
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celebrates California's great writers with the planting of trees. The first tree was planted for Joaquin Miller.
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