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Chris Goldman posted a blog postAuthor Becca Stevens to Speak in Asheville
The Rev. Becca Stevens is the founder of Magdalene & Thistle Farms, a community for women who have survived prostitution and addiction. She was named one of 15 Champions of Change by the White House. The Reverend Becca Stevens is an Episcopal priest serving as Chaplain at St Augustine's at Vanderbilt University. Thistle Farms employs 40 residents and graduates of Magdalene, and houses a natural body care line, a paper and sewing studio and the Thistle Stop Café. Magdalene is the two-year…See More
Chris Goldman posted an eventMinistry & Mission Conference Featuring Author Becca Stevens at First Baptist Church, Asheville
May 3, 2014 from 8:30am to 4pm
The Rev. Becca Stevens is the founder of Magdalene & Thistle Farms, a community for women who have survived prostitution and addiction. She was named one of 15 Champions of Change by the White House. The Reverend Becca Stevens is an Episcopal priest serving as Chaplain at St Augustine's at Vanderbilt University. Thistle Farms employs 40 residents and graduates of Magdalene, and houses a natural body care line, a paper and sewing studio and the Thistle Stop Café. Magdalene is the two-year…See More
William Roy Pipes posted a blog postDoodlebug, Doodlebug, Your House is on Fire
Doodlebug, Doodlebug, Your House is on Fire is an Appalachian novel. The author, William Roy Pipes, author of Darby, Hanging Dog, the sequel to Darby, and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, puts his love and knowledge of the Appalachian Mountains and the people live there into an intriguing romantic murder mystery involving a three year old boy, the only witness to the murders of his family, murdered by a gang out of Mexico. This gang was searching for distant cousin suspected of stealing a large…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a blog postPoets Patrick Bahls and Rick Chess at West Asheville Library, Apr. 22
Personal Meaning-Making: The Poetry of Patrick Bahls Tuesday, April 22, 7 p.m., West Asheville Branch Library, 942 Haywood Rd., 250-4750West Asheville resident Dr. Patrick Bahls, Associate Professor of Math and Honors Program Director at UNC Asheville, and his colleague, Dr. Rick Chess, Professor of Language and Literature and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at UNC Asheville, present an evening of poetry. Dr. Bahls began writing poetry some years ago as “a means of reflection and…See More
City Lights Bookstore posted eventsSallie Bissell Returns with a New Mary Crow Novel
May 9, 2014 from 6:30pm to 8pmWally Avett’s Murder in Caney Fork
May 3, 2014 from 3pm to 4:30pm
Rob Neufeld posted a blog postBobby Norfolk starts storytelling, June 28
Bobby Norfolk Throws First Pitch for Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Diversityat Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch 2014from press release June 28 eventBobby Norfolk, three-time Emmy Award-winner is the lead storyteller for the fifth season of Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch--Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Diversity, June 28 in the Rhino Courtyard of Pack Place. The stories begin at 10:30 a.m., rain or shine, and are free to the public. Entrances to the Rhino Courtyard are from Biltmore Avenue under…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionInez and Annie Daugherty and African American history
The Daughertys of Black Mountain spanned racial historyby Rob Neufeld “The children in Cragmont (an African American neighborhood in Black Mountain) and High Top Colony, where my family lived, walked to school in groups,” Daugherty recalled about her 1920s childhood in a talk she had with me in 2005. “White children rode the bus,” she revealed. “They sometimes threw things at us and called us ugly names, but my mother told me, ‘You know who you are. Those names do not…See More
Sue Diehl posted an eventMONTREAT COLLEGE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY LUNCHEON at Montreat College, Gaither Fellowship Hall, Montreat, NC
June 21, 2014 from 12pm to 2:30pm
Pamela Duncan, author of Moon Women, Plant Life, and The Big Beautiful, will be the speaker at the Montreat College Friends of the Library Annual Luncheon on Saturday, June 21, 2014, in the Gaither Fellowship Hall.See More
Rose Senehi posted eventsBOOK SIGNING & Meet & Greet Author Rose Senehi
May 3, 2014 from 12pm to 2pmBOOK SIGNING & Meet & Greet the Author
May 2, 2014 from 1pm to 3pm
Jerald Pope posted an eventIt ain’t for wimps: readings on aging at Monte Vista Hotel
April 17, 2014 from 6pm to 7pm
Increased life expectancy brings with it increased opportunities, problems, and responsibilities. Both the aged and the pre-aged will find much to ponder at the Black Mountain Authors Guild’s reading at the Monte Vista this Thursday at 6 pm. Four local writers will share their thinking on the subject: Danielle Laverty will read her essay on aging that won the Black Mt. Public Library contest, Nancy Werking Poling will read from her current and published fiction, and James and Cannan Hyde will…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionAsheville Wordfest May 2-4, 2014
Asheville Wordfest 2014(Photo top right, Laurey Masterton from Asheville Chamber of Commerce; 2nd photo, Laura Hope-Gill from www.thehealingseed.com) A webpage in progress!Asheville Wordfest, an annual…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionFiddler of the Mountains by Eva Nell Mull Wike
Fiddler and His FamilyFiddler of the Mountains: Attuned to the Life and Times of Johnny Mull by Eva Nell Mull Wike (Donning Company hardcover, Nov. 2013, 96 pages, $25)See other new WNC books Wike, author of the…See More
Ron Rash Returns!
Event Details
Time: November 9, 2012 from 7pm to 8pm
Location: Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
Street: 55 Haywood Street
City/Town: Asheville, NC 28801
Website or Map: http://www.malaprops.com
Phone: 828-254-6734
Event Type: reading, and, booksigning
Organized By: Malaprop's Bookstore Cafe
Latest Activity: Nov 1, 2012
Event Description
Join us as we celebrate the paperback release of The Cove! Ron Rash, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Serena, returns to the Appalachian milieu in The Cove, to tell a tale of love and the dangerous notions of patriotism during wartime. "Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true; The Cove solidifies his reputation as one of our very finest novelists."--Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls.
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