Soul of a People Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Time: Noon-1:00 PM Place: Conference Rooms Join us for a talk and book signing for David Taylor's Soul of a People. His book explores the lives and experiences of a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and offers a glimpse of America at a turning point. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with the larger picture of their subjects. This book illuminates what it felt like to live that experience, how going from joblessness to reporting on their own communities affected artists with varied visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame, humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also revealed is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the way for, the political movements of the following decades, including the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, and the Native American rights movement. This event is part of the Virginia Literary Festival. ________________________________ MLK Revealed Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Time: 6:00 PM-7:00 PM Place: Lecture Hall A discussion on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound on His Trail about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the largest manhunt in American history, and Nick Kotz, author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America chronicling the roles of President Johnson and Dr. King in the passage of the 1964, 1965, and 1968 civil rights laws. The discussion will be moderated by Edward L Ayers, president of the University of Richmond. This event is part of the Virginia Literary Festival. ________________________________ Writers Workshop: Nonfiction Thursday, October 14, 2010 Time: 8:30 AM-Noon, Fee. Reservations required. Please call 804-692-3900 or click here <https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=37075> to purchase tickets. A half-day of insightful guidance and hands-on instruction for writers of articles, essays, and nonfiction books featuring authors James Campbell, Dean King, Charles Slack, Jason Tesauro, and Logan Ward, with special guest Hampton Sides. This event is part of the Virginia Literary Festival. ________________________________ Book Launch and Signing: Secretariat's Meadow Thursday, October 14, 2010 Time: 6:00 PM-7:00 PM Place: Lecture Hall Join us for a talk and signing by co-authors Kate Chenery Tweedy and Leanne Meadows Ladin as they give us the complete story of Secretariat's birthplace and the Chenery family who raised and raced him. Secretariat's Meadow: The Land, The Family, The Legend reveals an intimate picture of Meadow Farm from the viewpoint of Kate Chenery Tweedy, daughter of Penny Chenery (Tweedy) and granddaughter of Meadow Stable's founder Christopher T. Chenery. The book tells not only Secretariat's story, but the story of an enduring piece of land where an empire built on broodmares eventually produced the legendary winner of the Triple Crown. The event is sponsored by Robertson and Martin Financial Consulting Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC. This event is part of the Virginia Literary Festival. ________________________________ From the Heart Friday, October 15, 2010 Time: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM Place: Jepson Alumni Center, University of Richmond, 101 College Drive, Fee. Reservations required. Please call 804-692-3900 or click here <https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=37075> to purchase tickets. A live literary discussion and seated luncheon with best-selling authors Adriana Trigiani, Jeannette Walls and Josh Weil. Three of Virginia's most beloved and highly acclaimed fiction writers discuss their works. Author of the Big Stone Gap trilogy, Trigani wows audiences with her humor. Walls does it with her poignant stories. Weil, whose dark Appalachian tales have brought him critical kudos, is the new voice on the block. Journalist Lisa LaFata Powell will moderate the discussion, which promises to be not only lively but heartfelt. ________________________________ Virginia Arts & Letters Live Friday, October 15, 2010 Time: 7:00 PM-9:00 PM Place: Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, FEE. For more information, contact CACGA at 804-261-ARTS (2787), or James River Writers at 804-433-3790. Virginia actors read short stories by Virginia writers, accompanied by Virginia musicians. Pat Carroll is the guest host and this year's production is directed by Irene Ziegler. This event is co-produced by James River Writers and the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen in association with the READ Center. This event is part of the Virginia Literary Festival. ________________________________ Closed Saturday, October 16, 2010 Closed all day for Literary Awards event ________________________________ Unite or Die!: How Thirteen States Became a Nation Saturday, October 16, 2010 Time: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Place: Main Branch, Richmond Public Library, 101 East Franklin Street, 804-646-4550 Cardozo Award-winning author Jacqueline Jules, author of Unite or Die!: How Thirteen States Became a Nation will read and discuss her book that delightfully depicts how the constitution was created. This is a perfect program for elementary school children. This event is part of the Virginia Literary Festival. ________________________________ 13th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration Saturday, October 16, 2010 Time: 7:00 PM Place: Lobby, FEE. Reservations required. Please call 804-692-3900 or click here <https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=37075> to purchase tickets. Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani will host this year's fabulous literary event featuring the best writing about Virginia or by Virginia authors. Awards will be given for best works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary lifetime achievement. Other awards include the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the People's Choice Awards, and the Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children's Literature. ________________________________ Sitting In and Speaking Out: Student Movements in the American South, 1960-1970 Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Time: 7:00 PM Place: Bacot Reception Room, St. Catherine's School, 6001 Grove Avenue, 804-288-2804 Jeffrey Turner will discuss Sitting In and Speaking Out, his book examining student movements in the South. Examining the activism of both black and white students, he shows that the South responded to national developments but that the response had its own trajectory. Based on primary research at more than 20 public and private institutions in the deep and upper South, including historically black schools, Sitting In and Speaking Out is a wide-ranging and sensitive portrait of southern students navigating a remarkably dynamic era. Turner holds the Abby Castle Kemper Master Teaching Chair in History at St. Catherine's School. The talk is presented by St. Catherine's School and the Library of Virginia. Books are available for sale at the event, or in advance at the Virginia Shop at the Library of Virginia: www.thevirginiashop.org <http://www.thevirginiashop.org/> or call 804-692-3976. --------------- The Library of Virginia is located in historic downtown Richmond at 800 East Broad Street. 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