2009.07.03
Book the Weekend
“Meet the Authors” on Saturday and Sunday July 4 and 5, 2009, at the Crafts in the Meadows festival. This annual event showcases local and regional writers. Authors will be available to talk about their work and sign copies of their books.
Ralph J. Lutts, an environmental historian and faculty member at Goddard College, is the author of "The Nature Fakers: Wildlife Science and Sentiment." He and his wife, Susan Moore, operate Dan River Books in Meadows of Dan. Available for signing on July 4th and 5th.
Sisters “Anne and Fran” have published their first children’s book "The Goat in the Roxy Theater." Anne Marie Ross Freemana is a part-time instructor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at Rockingham Community College. Fran Ross Sneada is a fifth grade teacher at John Redd Smith Elementary School in Collinsville Virginia. Available for signing on July 4th.
"A Guide to the Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail" by Joe Wilson has been a best-selling guide to the Crooked Road which travels through Patrick County. The book will be available for sale both days of the festival at the Mountain Meadow Farm and Craft Market booth.
Fred First is a physical therapist who practices part time at a clinic near Radford, Virginia, and teaches as adjunct faculty for the biology department at Radford University. He lives on the headwaters of the Roanoke River in a remote part of Floyd County Virginia with his wife Ann and yellow lab Tsuga. He is the author of "Slow Road Home, A Blue Ridge Book of Days" and "What We Hold In Our Hands: a Slow Road Reader." Available for signing on July 4th.
Dorothy Pratt author of "Kick Him to the Curb and Keep on Smilin’!" has been a professional singer/guitarist for twenty-eight years. She currently lives in Southwest Virginia with all her animals and remains happily single. Available for signing on July 5th.
After retiring from working thirty-two years in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District, co-author Libby Bondurant was ready to explore new avenues and considers creating the compilation of "Grazing Along the Crooked Road" with Betty Skeens a great adventure. Available for signing July 4th and 5th.
In 2003, Tim Pegram became the first person known to have backpacked the entire length of the Blue Ridge Parkway. His first book chronicling the journey "The Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot: A Park Ranger's Memoir" was released by McFarland & Company Inc. and published in July 2007. Available for signing on July 4th.
Donna Akers Warmuth grew up near Abingdon, Virginia, in the valleys of the Holston River and now lives in the mountains of western North Carolina. She has combined her love of history writing and Appalachian heritage by writing several books about the area. Available for signing on July 5th.
The Mayberry Presbyterian Church will be available on July 4th and 5th with their new cookbook, a collection of recipes from the congregation and past history of the church and preachers. They will also have the well-known biography of Robert Childress, "The Man Who Moved a Mountain" by Richard Davids.
Tom Perry, author of several books on the history of Patrick County grew up in Patrick County’s most historic community of Ararat. Perry founded the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace Trust Inc. to preserve 75 acres of the Stuart property and home place of James Ewell Brown Stuart. Available for signing July 4th and 5th.
"Meet the Authors" is aprt of the Crafts in the Meadows, an annual event taking place the weekend closest to the 4th of July. Other activities planned are music and a craft show featuring local artisans. For more information contact Sue Shelor at 276-952-5568 or 540-593-3279.
Where: Mountain Meadow Farm, 84 Concord Road in Meadows of Dan. , Virginia.
When: July 4 & 5, 2009, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
