Serving Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and other towns of the North Carolina High Country
Founded 05-05-05
April 05, 2007 issue
Story by David Brewer
On Saturday, April 14, Blue Ridge Wine Festival attendees and members of the public are invited to meet and have books signed by several members of the High Country Writers at the Green Park Inn from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Honored authors include Bart Bare, author of new fantasy novel Satan's Bargain;
Maggie Bishop, author of Appalachian mystery Murder at Blue Falls; Judith Geary, author of award-winning historical fiction novel Rome, Getorix: The Eagle and The Bull and Schuyler Kaufman, author of High Country mystery Dear Mouse….
Nora Percival, 92-year-old matriarch of the HCW group, will bring her memoirs, Weather of the Heart: A Child's Journey out of Revolutionary Russia and Silver Pages on the Lawn. Peggy Poe Stern will bring her books Mountain Talk, The Hills of Home, When Robins Weep and Tamarack.
Frances Van Landingham will present her new cookbook Puttin' up Vittles on Nowhere Road, based on her popular memoir Back on Nowhere Road and Children Will Play, a book of traditional games. Mountain lore writer Donna Warmuth will bring along several books including Legends, Stories, and Ghostly Tales of Abingdon and Washington County, Virginia and books on Blowing Rock and Boone, both from the Images of America series from Arcadia Publishing.
High Country Writers, the regional writers organization, meets the second and forth Thursday of each month at the Watauga County Public Library from 10:00 a.m. to noon. HCW sponsors speakers monthly and occasional special programs. For more info, click to highcountrywriters.tripod.com or call HCW president Wendy Dingwall 828-297-7127.