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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 21\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nFree Registration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host a panel discussion and book signing for the anthology All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels on Thursday\, September 21\, at 5:00 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance.\nThe panel discussion will include editor Susan Cushman and contributing writers Cassandra King\, Wendy Reed\, and Nancy Dorman-Hickson. \nAbout All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels\n“All Night\, All Day is an inspirational collection of personal essays\, stories\, and poems by outstanding women authors who write about the appearance of the divine in their lives. Some of these angels come to save a life or change a flat tire. Some appear to warn people\, tell them what to do\, suggest more vegetables and maybe better shoes… In this stunning anthology which explores so many heartwarming brushes with celestial beings\, all these angels are messengers come to assure us we are not alone\, and we are loved.”—Margaret McMullan\, award-winning author of Where the Angels Lived \nThere is something mystical about holding the hand of a person who is “crossing over.” It can be heartbreaking\, of course\, but also very holy and beautiful. Some of the pieces in this collection share the experience of personal loss when a loved one dies. Often the presence of an angel or another mystical experience is shared. But not only in death—there are also stories here of the way the mystical world interacts with us in daily life. And not only angels\, but also mothers\, fathers\, sisters\, grandfathers\, friends\, and even a homeless man and a dog. \nABOUT THE EDITOR AND AUTHORS\nThis is Susan Cushman’s fourth anthology to edit. She is also the author of two novels\, two memoirs\, and a short story collection. Pat Conroy and Cassandra King are her two favorite authors and inspired her to write. Enough said. \n  \n  \nCassandra King (Conroy) is the author of five best-selling novels and two nonfiction books. Her latest book\, Tell Me a Story\, a memoir about life with her late husband Pat Conroy\, was named SIBA’s 2020 non-fiction Book of the Year. A conversation with Cassandra at her home in 2018 about angels—and particularly about the one that visited Pat as he was dying—was the inspiration for this book. \n  \nWendy Reed is an Emmy-winning writer and producer\, whose work include documentaries and the long-running series Bookmark with Don Noble and Discovering Alabama. She is the author of An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone and Other Stories and the co-editor of All Out of Faith and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality. \n  \nAfter almost twenty years as a features editor at Southern Living magazine\, Nancy Dorman-Hickson now freelances in Birmingham\, Alabama. She co-authored Diplomacy and Diamonds\, the best-selling memoir of Joanne King Herring who was portrayed by Julia Roberts in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War. She is working on a memoir which draws from her rural childhood in the 1960s and 1970s in Mississippi. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Susan Beckham Zurenda
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 19\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nLocation: Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen Street) | please call The Center to reserve your seat: 843-379-7025 \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and NeverMore Books will host an evening with novelist Susan Beckham Zurenda\, author of The Girl from the Red Rose Motel\, on September 19\, at 5:00 p.m. Zurenda will be joined in conversation by bestselling author Cassandra King\, author of Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy. Free and open to the public\, this special event will be held at The Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT The Girl from the Red Rose Motel\nImpoverished high school junior Hazel Smalls and privileged senior Sterling Lovell would never ordinarily meet. But when both are punished with in-school suspension\, Sterling finds himself drawn to the gorgeous\, studious girl seated nearby\, and an unlikely relationship begins. Set in 2012 South Carolina\, the novel interlaces the stories of Hazel\, living with her homeless family in the rundown Red Rose Motel; Sterling\, yearning to break free from the expectations of his wealthy parents; and recently widowed Angela Wilmore\, their stern but compassionate English teacher. \nHazel hides her homelessness from Sterling until he discovers her cleaning the motel’s office one morning when he goes with his slumlord father to unfreeze the motel’s pipes. With her secret revealed\, their relationship deepens. Angela\, who has her own struggles in a budding romance with the divorced principal\, offers Hazel the support her family can’t provide. Navigating between privilege and poverty\, vulnerability and strength\, all three must confront what they need from themselves and each other as Hazel gains the courage to oppose boundaries and make a bold\, life-changing decision at novel’s end. Gripping and richly drawn\, The Girl from the Red Rose Motel explores the complex bonds between adults and teenagers and the power of the families we both inherit and create. \nInspired by the author’s experiences teaching in a South Carolina high school\, the novel is also an unflinching\, authentic look at the challenges faced by America’s public school teachers and the struggles of the thousands of homeless children in motels who live\, precariously and almost invisibly\, amid the nation’s most affluent communities. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nSusan Zurenda taught English for 33 years on the college level and at the high school level to AP students. Her debut novel\, Bells for Eli (Mercer University Press\, March 2020; paperback edition March 2021)\, has been selected the Gold Medal (first place) winner for Best First Book—Fiction in the 2021 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards)\, a Foreword Indie Book Award finalist\, a Winter 2020 Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance\, a 2020 Notable Indie on Shelf Unbound\, a 2020 finalist for American Book Fest Best Book Awards\, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2021. \nShe has won numerous regional awards for her short fiction. She lives in Spartanburg\, SC. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
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SUMMARY:An Evening with T. M. Brown\, author of The Last Laird of Sapelo\, in conversation with Bren McClain
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday September 12\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \n“A heart-wrenching and beautiful story of a man and his family brought to its knees by the Civil War. . . . historical fiction at its finest.”–Patti Callahan Henry\, New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist T.M. Brown\, author of The Last Laird of Sapelo\, in conversation with Willie Morris Award-winning novelist Bren McClain. This free event will be held on Tuesday\, September 12\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please register in advance at 843-379-7025. \nAbout The Last Laird of Sapelo\nThe Last Laird of Sapelo is based on the tragic story of Randolph Spalding\, the youngest son of Georgia’s most well-known antebellum-era coastal planter and influential political figure\, Thomas Spalding. Following his father’s death in 1851\, Randolph parlays his father’s fame and gifted landholdings on Sapelo Island\, hobnobbing from Charleston to Savannah to Milledgeville and ultimately failing to thwart Georgia’s decision to follow South Carolina into secession by early 1861. \nWithin weeks after the assault on Fort Sumter\, Lincoln’s naval blockade threatens the entire southern coast. Colonel Randolph Spalding\, now a reluctant commander of militia\, faces a storm of life-altering events in the months that follow\, imperiling his family’s legacy\, livelihood\, and lands. He ultimately must decide between supposed justice and saving the life of a slave who exacted revenge for the murder and rape of two children on Sapelo Island. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAuthor T. M. Brown went back to school after a thirty-year sales and marketing career; his lifelong love for history\, teaching\, and coaching landed him in the classroom until he retired in 2014. He took up writing novels and has published four award-winning Southern novels. \nHe is a member of the Atlanta Writers Club\, Southeastern Writers Association\, Broadleaf Writers Association\, American Christian Fiction Writers\, and founding president of Hometown Novel Writers Association\, Inc.\, in Newnan\, Georgia. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-t-m-brown/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Amy Paige Condon
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday August 22\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Amy Paige Condon\, author of A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs\, newly released in paperback. This free event will be held on Tuesday\, August 22\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place\n“This is not a simple life\, my friend\, and there are no simple answers.” The late editor of the late Miami News\, Bill Baggs\, stamped these words on plain white postcards and sent them to readers who sent him hate mail―a frequent occurrence\, as Baggs\, a white editor of a prominent southern newspaper\, championed unpopular ideas in his front-page columns\, such as protecting the environment\, desegregating public schools\, and peace in Vietnam. \nUnder his leadership\, the Miami News earned three Pulitzer Prizes. For his stances\, Baggs earned a bullet hole through his office window\, police officers stationed outside his home\, and a used Mercedes outfitted with a remote starter so that if it had been rigged with a bomb\, it would blow up before he opened the door. Despite his causes and accomplishments\, when Baggs died of pneumonia in 1969 at the age of forty-five\, his story nearly died with him\, and that would have been a travesty because Baggs still has so much to teach us about how to find the answers to those not-so-simple questions\, like how to live in peace with one another? \nIn this first biography of this influential editor\, Amy Paige Condon retraces how an orphaned boy from rural Colquitt\, Georgia\, bore witness and impacted some of the twentieth century’s most earth-shifting events: World War II\, the civil rights movement\, the Cuban Missile Crisis\, and the Vietnam War. With keen intellect and sparkling wit\, Baggs seemed to be in the right place at the right time. From bombardier to reporter then accidental diplomat\, Baggs used his daily column as a bully pulpit for social justice and wielded his pen like a scalpel to reveal the truth. \n“The marquee proclaiming the most celebrated journalists of the twentieth century probably wouldn’t include Bill Baggs. But ask everyone listed on the marquee who’s missing. By unanimous consent\, they’d say Bill Baggs\, the daring\, fearless\, ‘rapscallion’ editor of the Miami News. Why? Because as Amy Paige Condon so masterfully reveals\, Baggs led them on race\, Vietnam\, the environment\, historic preservation\, land conservation\, and the liberal conversation we’re still having today. This is a necessary resurrection of a departed journalist worth celebrating.”–Hank Klibanoff\, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of The Race Beat: The Press\, the Civil Rights Struggle\, and the Awakening of a Nation \n“When a book keeps you riveted into the wee hours of the morning\, and then brings tears to your eyes when it ends\, you can be pretty sure it’s a winner.”–Carol McCabe Booker\, editor of Alone Atop the Hill \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAmy Paige Condon is the founder of the Refinery Writing Studio and the associate editor of Beacon\, a quarterly news magazine published by the Savannah Morning News. She is the coauthor of Wiley’s Championship BBQ Cookbook and The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-amy-paige-condon/
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