Writersand Readers Festival

Jamestown
Writers and Readers Festival
A community book fair for everyone
at
Jamestown Public Library
April 23 at 7:30 — Opening Talk and Reception
Jerry Neal (as) “Guglielmo Marconi:
The Development and Applications Which Enabled Wireless Technology to Change the World”
with Jerry Bledsoe
in the
Auditorium
April 24 — Festival Day
9:00 - 10:15 — Young Writers Read • Poetry by area students
9:30 - 2:00 — Conversation, Readings and Book Signing • 30 North Carolina authors
9:30 and 2:00 — Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns • Appalachian storyteller Orville Hicks
Panel Discussions
10:30 — Hiking, Nature, and Writing
11:30 — Writing About Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham
1:00 — Your Writing & Publishing Questions Answered
Expect to find a variety of books:
Novels • Mystery • Poetry • Biographies • Children's books • Cooking • Local history
North Carolina heritage • Appalachian folklore • Women’s history • Civil War history
Baseball • Travel and hiking • Bookbinding and conservation
Free • Door prizes throughout the day • Concessions on the lawn
Jamestown
Public
Library
• 200
West
Main
Street
• Jamestown,
NC
• (336)
454‐4815
• www.jamestownlibrary.info
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The
Jamestown
Writers
and
Readers
Festival
project
is
produced
by
Friends
of
the
Library
/
Old
Jamestown
School
Association
with
funding
through
the
Grassroots
program
of
the
NC
Legislature,
the
NC
Arts
Council,
Guilford
County,
City
of
High
Point,
and
the
High
Point
Area
Arts
Council.
Participating
Writers
Bios
are
available
at
www.jamestownlibrary.info
Carol
Andrews:
Children’s
picture
book
•
The
Giggle
Wind
•
Speckled
Angels
Ralph
E.
Lentz
II:
History,
photography
•
W.R
Trivett,
Appalachian
Pictureman:
Photographs
of
a
Bygone
Time
Fran
Andrews:
Regional
history
•
Trinity:
Birthplace
of
Duke
University
Jerry
Neal:
Personal
experience,
regional,
business
•
Fire
in
the
Belly:
Building
a
World­leading
High­tech
Company
from
Scratch
in
Tumultuous
Times
•
Built
on
a
Rock
Jerry
Bledsoe:
True
crime,
investigative
writing
•
Bitter
Blood
•
Death
by
Journalism
Libby
Bagby:
Plott
hounds
•
Lucky’s
Plott:
A
Plott
Hound
Tale
•
Tracking
Plott
Hound
History
Maggie
Bishop:
Mystery
•
Perfect
for
Framing
•
Mystery
at
Blue
Falls
Mary
Browning:
Genealogy
and
history
of
Jamestown
•
Historical
Places
In
&
Around
Jamestown,
N.
C.
•
Oakdale
Cotton
Mills
Tim
Pegram:
Hiking
in
NC
•
The
Blue
Ridge
Parkway
by
Foot:
A
Park
Ranger's
Memoir
Nora
Percival:
Autobiography
•
Weather
of
the
Heart:
A
Child’s
Journey
Out
of
Revolutionary
Russia
Robert
Reising:
Baseball,
biography
•
Chasing
Moonlight:
The
True
Story
of
Field
of
Dreams’
Doc
Graham
Doug
Butler:
Travel,
adventure
•
A
Walk
Atop
America
Alice
Sink:
Regional
interest
•
Hidden
History
of
the
Piedmont
Triad
•
Boarding
House
Reach:
North
Carolina's
Entrepreneurial
Women
Steve
Cushman:
Literary
Viction
•
Portisville
•
Fracture
City
Karen
Cecil
Smith:
Biography,
juvenile
historical
Viction
•
Orlean
Puckett:
The
Life
of
a
Mountain
Midwife
•
An
Old
Salem
Christmas,
1840
Julia
Taylor
Ebel:
Juvenile,
historical
Viction,
biographies
•
Jack
Tale
and
Mountain
Yarns
as
Told
by
Orville
Hicks
•
Dresses,
Dreams
and
Beadwood
Leaves
Joe
Watson:
Cooking
for
men
•
Cooking
Guide
for
Men:
As
easy
as
1­2­3
and
A­B­C
Liz
Lazarides
White:
Greek
cooking
•
Opa
Terry
Kirby
Erickson:
Poetry
•
Telling
Tales
of
Dusk
•
Thread
Count
Brett
Friedlander:
Baseball,
biography
•
Chasing
Moonlight:
The
True
Story
of
Field
of
Dreams’
Doc
Graham
Nancy
Gotter
Gates:
Mystery
•
Sand
Castles
•
Death
at
Play:
Murder
at
the
Reenactment
Orville
Hicks:
Mountain
storyteller
•
Jack
Tales
and
Mountain
Yarns
as
Told
by
Orville
Hicks
•
Orville
Hicks:
Mountain
Stories,
Mountain
Roots
Bill
Kaiser:
Civil
War
Viction
•
Bloodroot
Stephen
Kirk:
NC
non‐Viction
•
Travel
North
Carolina
•
First
in
Flight:
The
Wright
Brothers
in
North
Carolina
Patricia
Koehler:
Local
history
•
Oakdale
Cotton
Mills
Monique
Lallier
and
Don
Etherington:
•
Bookbinding
and
conservation
Linda
Willard:
Quaker
history
•
Quakers
in
Con[lict
•
Quakers
Preserved
Discussion
Panels
–
April
24:
10:30
Hiking,
Nature,
and
Writing
•
Doug
Butler
•
Tim
Pegram
Moderator:
Tom
Shepherd,
Piedmont
Environmental
Center
11:30
Writing
About
Field
of
Dreams’
Doc
Graham
•
Brett
Friedlander:
Author
•
Bob
Reising:
Author,
baseball
coach,
and
professor
•
Steve
Kirk:
Editor
and
author
Moderator:
Glenn
Deck
1:00
Your
Writing
&
Publishing
Questions
Answered
•
Sue
Falcone:
A
speaker
who
writes
•
Sheree
DeMao:
Author,
marketer
•
Laine
Cunningham:
Publishing
consultant,
editor
•
June
Read:
Traditionally
published
author
•
Lindy
Clark:
Cookbook
author
•
Gayle
Chandler:
Speaker,
author,
researcher
Moderator:
Kristen
Eikstein