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Taylor Stevens visits to read from The Innocent. Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen.
Now, after years of searching, childhood survivors of the group have found the girl in Argentina. But getting her out is a whole new challenge. For the rescue they need someone who is brilliant, fearless and utterly ruthless. Vanessa Michael Munroe. Because the only way to get Hannah out is for Munroe to go in…
The Innocent is the sequel to the international bestseller The Informationist, which introduced the extraordinary, take-no-prisoners heroine Vanessa Munroe.
Taylor Stevens has a remarkable life story - raised in a religious cult, the Children of God, she was denied basic education, her storytelling quashed by cult leaders, and her writing confiscated and burned. When she finally broke free of the movement, she was determined to write a novel - and she has now written two. The Informationist was an instant bestseller on publication in America. She has lived in central Africa but now lives in Dallas.
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McIntyre’s welcomes Lisa Alther to read from Washed In The Blood. This unique three-part novel assumes that, regardless of what Americans learn in school, the Southeast was not a barren wilderness when the English arrived at Jamestown. It was full of Native Americans , other Europeans, and Africans who were there for various reasons. Based on extensive research into the racial mixing that occurred in the early years of southeastern settlement, this provocative multi-generational story shows that these people did not simply vanish, but that many were absorbed into the new communities that gradually formed throughout the southeast, becoming “white” whenever their complexions allowed.
The inability to accept their true heritages illustrates the high price many of these people paid for their way of life.
Lisa Alther was born in 1944 in Kingsport, Tennessee. She received her BA in English Literature from Wellesley College. She has published five novels, one novella, and one memoir, as well as many short stories and articles. Alther taught Southern fiction at St. Michael’s College in Vermont and at East Tennessee State University, in addition to having lectured and done readings throughout the United States, Western Europe, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia.
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At the base of the Alps, in the north-western part of Italy, lies perhaps two of the most interesting winegrowing states in Italy. We will take a look at wines from Barolo, Barbaresco, Carema, Valtellina, and yes Franciacorta. Come and escape the cold of winter and be embraced by the warmth of these wines. $45 per guest, including tax, gratuity, and light hors d’oeuvres from Chef Colin Bedford. Call (919) 542-2121 to make your reservation.
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Join us for a special 10th birthday party Collectors' Preview Event complete with folk art themed birthday cake created by Fearrington’s chefs for all to enjoy. Fearrington has garnered a reputation for bringing together a diverse group of artists who represent some of the best, most unique work to be found in the outsider art world. For the serious collector, the Preview is a great opportunity to visit and have more in-depth conversations with the artists, to buy their work, and to learn more about this sometimes quirky but always fascinating world. Preview tickets are $25 and include entry to the show throughout the weekend. To purchase tickets, visit http://fearringtonfolkart.eventbrite.com | | |
Sydney Nathans visits to read from To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker. What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family’s fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family—Susan and Peter Lesley—who protected and employed her. Sydney Nathans’ sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Mary Walker’s remarkable persistence as well as the sustained collaboration of black and white abolitionists who assisted her. Mary Walker and the Lesleys ventured half a dozen attempts at liberation, from ransom to ruse to rescue, until the end of the Civil War reunited Mary Walker with her son and daughter. Sydney Nathans is Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University.
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The Fearrington Village Folk Art Show turns 10 in 2012! Join us for this rare opportunity to purchase art directly from over 35 of the South's finest Folk Artists. In celebration of the 10th anniversary, the weekend will be chock full of amazing art, discussions on all things folk art, demos and interviews with the artists. The show will be held in the Barn at Fearrington on Saturday and Sunday, February 18th and 19th from 10am to 5pm. $5 admission is good for both Saturday and Sunday. | | |
The Fearrington Village Folk Art Show turns 10 in 2012! Join us for this rare opportunity to purchase art directly from over 35 of the South's finest Folk Artists. In celebration of the 10th anniversary, the weekend will be chock full of amazing art, discussions on all things folk art, demos and interviews with the artists. The show will be held in the Barn at Fearrington on Saturday and Sunday, February 18th and 19th from 10am to 5pm. $5 admission is good for both Saturday and Sunday. | | |
Join us for a night of great food, great wine, and great fun as two good friends, Fearrington House's Maximilian Kast and On the Square's Inez Ribustello battle to the last drop of your gustatory delight. Inez and her husband are owners of On the Square Restaurant in Tarboro, recently voted, along with the Fearrington House, as one of the top 50 restaurants in the country by OpenTable. Inez was the Wine Director at the famous Windows on the World in New York before settling back to her hometown of Tarboro. She also took second place in the Best Sommelier in the United States Competition and was a national finalist in the first TopSomm competition. The night will begin with signature cocktails from each sommelier, then over a five course dinner two wines will be paired for each course, at the end all guests will get to vote for the pairings enjoyed the most, determining the Best Sommelier for the evening. Wine Dinners are $165 per person, including, tax, gratuity and an hors d'oeuvres reception with the wine maker beforehand. Call (919) 542-2121 to make your reservation. | | |
Beth Holmgren visits to read from Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America. In 1876, Poland's leading actress, Helena Modrzejewska, accompanied by family and friends, emigrated to southern California to establish a utopian commune that soon failed. Within a year Modrzejewska made her debut in the title role of Adrienne Lecouvreur at San Francisco's California Theatre. She changed her name to Modjeska and quickly became a leading star on the American stage, where she reigned for the next 30 years. During this time, she established herself as America's most esteemed Shakespearean actress, playing opposite such celebrated actors as Edwin Booth and Maurice Barrymore. Starring Madame Modjeska traces Modjeska's fabulous life and career from her illegitimate birth in Krakow, to her successive reinventions of herself as a star in both Poland and America, and finally to her enduring legacy. Beth Holmgren is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is author of Women's Works in Stalin's Time (IUP, 1993), editor (with Helena Goscilo) of Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture and Russia, and translator and editor (with Helena Goscilo) of The Keys to Happiness by Anastasya Verbitskaya.
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Brett Lott comes to read from Dead Low Tide. In this long-awaited sequel to The Hunt Club, set in the swampy South Carolina Lowcountry, New York Times bestselling author Bret Lott returns with a literary page-turner about murder and family secrets. Though Dead Low Tide continues the story of Huger Dillard, this haunting work of fiction brilliantly stands on its own. No longer a teenager and now a young man, Huger must come to terms with and confront the truth about his community, his past, and the mysterious place he calls home.
While most of the residents in the wealthy, historic Charleston enclave of Landgrave Hall are asleep at two-thirty in the morning, Huger Dillard and his father, “Unc,” are heading, via jonboat, to the adjoining golf course. Blinded by a terrible accident that killed his wife, Unc prefers to practice his golf game when no one is watching. But before anyone can even tee off, Huger makes a grisly find: a woman’s body, anchored deep in the mud at the water’s low tide.
The discovery sets off a chain of events that puts Huger and his family up against secret military forces, old friends, longtime neighbors, lost loves, and shadowy global networks. The only thing connecting them all is Landgrave Hall—and the treacherous reason why this area is so important to so many people.
Bret Lott is the author of the novels A Song I Knew by Heart, Jewel (an Oprah’s Book Club selection), The Hunt Club, Reed’s Beach, A Stranger’s House, and The Man Who Owned Vermont; and the story collections A Dream of Old Leaves, How to Get Home, and The Difference Between Women and Men; the memoir Fathers, Sons, and Brothers; and the writing guide Before We Get Started. Named editor of The Southern Review in 2004, Bret Lott lives with his wife in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Join Chef Colin Bedford in The Fearrington House kitchen for a culinary retreat focused on the increasingly popular cooking technique, Sous Vide! Culinary Retreat Packages start at $820 per couple; rates depend on accommodation type. Retreats include afternoon tea, wine and hors d’oeuvres reception, dinner at The Fearrington House and a full afternoon of hands on instruction. Call (919) 542-2121 to reserve spaces.
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This month’s North Carolina Poetry Society event will feature Jo Taylor, Sally Logan and Florence Nash.
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