Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a new memoir that recounts her childhood in Baltimore's Little Italy and her path to political power. Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters, which is detailed in an article in today's Sun, will probably trigger lots of memories for people who lived through that era. Pelosi says she also hopes the memoir will encourage women and girls who ask her for advice and guidance.

To hear the San Francisco congresswoman's own words, mark Sept. 23 on your calendar. That evening she will read from her book and sign copies at the Enoch Pratt's Central Library in downtown Baltimore. The program, which begins at 7 p.m., is free to the public.

The Central Library is a fitting site for Pelosi, who writes about her time in the Mencken Room. The memoir also notes that her first public position was on San Francisco's library commission.