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Robert Morgan Reads at Lees-McRae April 19

Award winning author, Robert Morgan Regional author Robert Morgan will give a reading from selections of his award-winning prose and poetry in the King-Shivell Art Gallery in the Cannon Student Center at Lees-McRae College on Thursday April 19, at 7:00 pm. The program is free and open to the public.

Morgan, a western North Carolina native, blends a deep understanding of Appalachian culture and American history with a gift for narrative, description and dialogue that brings his characters and their place and time to life. His works include Gap Creek, The Hinterlands, The Truest Pleasure, Brave Enemies and several books of poetry.

Morgan’s many literary awards include four NEA fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His books have won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the Association of Appalachian Writers Book of the Year and the James G. Hanes Poetry Award.

The program at Lees-McRae will feature readings by Morgan, a discussion of his newest work, a biography of Daniel Boone, and performances by local musicians of Appalachian music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The Avery County Arts Council, the Blue Ridge Folklife Institute and Friends of Mountain History are sponsoring the presentation. For more info, contact the Avery Arts Council at 828-898-4292.

Want To Go?

Date: Thursday, April 19
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Cannon Student Center, Lees-McRae College
Cost: Free