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SUMMARY:Sunday with Friends: Ed Morgan
DESCRIPTION:Meet Ed Morgan\, an Abingdon writer\, naturalist\, and former mayor\, as he discusses his new book\, “Notes on the State of Southwest Virginia.” \nIn 2015\, Morgan was astonished to realize that Southwest Virginia was the most biodiverse location in the nation. He immediately asked himself how this was possible and why he did not know about it. “Notes on the State of Southwest Virginia” is a series of essays and memoirs exploring those two questions. The title of his book is a homage to Thomas Jefferson who was one of the first people to examine the biodiversity of Virginia in his 1785 publication\, “Notes on the State of Virginia.” Morgan writes about the scientists\, professionals\, and amateurs\, who have studied the biota of our region and its supporting ecosystems along with government officials and private citizens who have worked to preserve this bounty. \nMorgan describes himself as an amateur naturalist with a broad knowledge of Southwest Virginia\, the region where he has lived for 75 years. He is writing for the non-scientist\, like himself\, who possesses a keen interest in nature and would like the opportunity to experience the region’s hidden riches. While his book focuses on Southwest Virginia\, many of the events and topics examined apply to the Appalachian region as a whole. \nThere will be book sales and signings following the author presentation. This event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.wcpl.net/event/sunday-with-friends-ed-morgan/
LOCATION:Abingdon Library\, 205 Oak Hill Street\, Abingdon\, VA\, 24210\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sunday with Friends: Martin Haworth
DESCRIPTION:Meet Martin Haworth\, Scottish novelist and outdoorsman\, whose love of history has led him to write the Z-Rod trilogy of novels\, which takes the reader through an epic tale of 6th Century Scotland. It’s based on real historical events\, set during the time when the Picts\, the ancient people of Scotland\, encountered the arrival of Irish monks. The result was a clash of cultures. \nHaworth worked in community and church development with an Iron-age Filipino tribe\, providing him an in-depth understanding of primary religious beliefs and practices. Recently he has established a business\, Roaming Scotland\, which leads groups on hikes throughout Scotland and helps connect visitors to Scotland’s landscapes and ancient history. His business has arisen from a fusion of these experiences and interests. \nThere will be book sales and signings following the author presentation. This event is free and open to the public. \nSunday With Friends is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
URL:https://www.wcpl.net/event/sunday-with-friends-martin-haworth/
LOCATION:Abingdon Library\, 205 Oak Hill Street\, Abingdon\, VA\, 24210\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Silas House
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of Silas House is a Sunday with Friends special free program that will take place at the ballroom of the Martha Washington Inn & Spa. \nSilas House is among the most highly acclaimed Appalachian writers\, who has written nine novels\, poetry\, plays\, and a variety of non-fiction. The event will be part of his national book tour on the publication of his newest novel\, The Tulip Poplars\, to be released in mid-October. \nHe says about The Tulip Poplars that he “wanted to write about Appalachia in a new way\, populated not only by farmers and miners but also by teachers and rectors\, black folks\, queer folks\, Hispanic folks\, etc. I wanted to show it in its full complexity.” \nHis first full-length book of poetry\, All These Ghosts: Poems\, expresses in poetic form his touchstone subjects: the loss of rural America as he once knew it\, wild places\, stories from a lingering past\, and the abiding connection to family\, friends\, and fellow artists. \nDead Man Blues (published under S.D. House) is set in the rural community of Shady Grove on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. The main character\, Dave Hendricks\, once a pillar of the community\, has lost his wife and his job and has retreated to a houseboat on the lake. After two bodies are found on the lake\, Hendricks is forced out of seclusion to help law enforcement with the investigation. \nThere will be book sales and signings after the event. \nThe Sunday with Friends author series is sponsored by the Friends of the Washington County Public Library.
URL:https://www.wcpl.net/event/a-celebration-of-silas-house/
LOCATION:Martha Washington Inn\, 150 West Main Street\, Abingdon\, VA\, 24210\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sunday with Friends: Emilee Hackney
DESCRIPTION:Emilee Hackney was a teenager\, two-and-a-half weeks away from marrying an aspiring pastor in rural Appalachia\, when police seized the man’s phone\, scrolled through his pictures\, and arrested him on child pornography charges. \nAfter that shocking episode\, Hackney’s life continued to shift in unforeseen ways. She went from making sandwiches at Subway while attending a local community college to starting over at Harvard University as a transfer student. While there\, her life devolved into loneliness and dislocation\, and she found herself trading sex for money beyond the campus confines. \n“I look back now and I think\, Oh my gosh\, I just got away by the skin of my teeth\,” says Hackney\, 29\, author of “All That’s Unseen\,” her newly released first book detailing those experiences\, which debuted at #12 on the New York Times combined print and e-book nonfiction bestseller list. \nThe memoir is an account of escaping religious extremism and redefining herself apart from the mountains that raised her and the elite society to which she fled. Her life’s work became fusing her past as an eighth-generation Appalachian with her future in a broader world. \n“Finally\,” writes The New York Times Book Review\, “we have an Appalachian memoir worthy of its origins.”
URL:https://www.wcpl.net/event/sunday-with-friends-emilee-hackney/
LOCATION:Abingdon Library\, 205 Oak Hill Street\, Abingdon\, VA\, 24210\, United States
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