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Join us for the Launch Party for Erik Weir’s Who’s Eating Your Pie: Essential Financial Advice that Will Transform Your Life! Whether you’re just starting your career at twenty-two or quickly approaching retirement at sixty-two, Who’s Eating Your Pie? will give you the tools you need to grow a bigger, sweeter financial pie than you ever thought possible—and keep everyone else’s fingers out of it!
An expert on entrepreneurism, goal setting, real estate investment, money management, marketing and promotion, Weir is a life-long student who has earned degrees and certificates from Georgia State University and Harvard Extension School. He is a father of 5 sons and lives in South Carolina.
Join Chef Teryi on Wednesday, July 13th at 7:30 pm for COOK THE BOOK, our newest Camilla Kitchen event series.
COOK THE BOOK is a seated, limited, taste-and-see kind of event where Chef Teryi features a new favorite cookbook. She’ll do some cooking in front of us, giving tips and tricks along the way, and then we eat! We’ll spend the evening talking about the featured cookbook while savoring small plates and sipping on the wine pairing provided.
Your ticket includes three small plates, a glass of wine, and a copy of the cookbook!
REVIEWS
“Snacks for Dinner perfectly captures the vibes of my favorite kind of dinner party: impromptu yet deeply thoughtful, fancy-feeling but not fussy, with vegetables at the center. With delightfully clever recipes and his warm, confident guidance, Lukas shows us how to turn something as humble as dip and crackers into a memorable meal that’s worth sharing.” —Christina Chaey, senior food editor, Bon Appétit
“Snacks for Dinner is a joyful invitation to make your meals simpler, fresher, and SO much more fun! Whether you want to spice up a weeknight dinner or assemble a stunning special occasion spread, Lukas’s thoughtful writing and creative recipes will give you the skills, confidence, and inspiration you need.” —Jeanine Donofrio, author of The Love & Lemons Cookbook
The first speaker in our 2022 Grandfather Presents series is Rick Ridgeway. Rick is an outdoor adventurer, writer and advocate for sustainability and conservation initiatives. For 15 years, Rick was the VP of Environmental Affairs and then VP of Public Engagement at Patagonia, Inc. During his tenure he has worked with teams to develop and launch environmental and sustainability initiatives including Freedom to Roam, the Footprint Chronicles, the Responsible Economy Campaign and Worn Wear. He also was the developer of developer of the Higg Index and founding chairman of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, which is today the largest apparel, footwear and home textile trade organization in the world.
Additional, Rick is recognized as one of the world’s foremost mountaineers. With three companions, he was the first American to summit K2, and he has done other significant climbs and explorations on all continents. During his explorations Rick witnessed the degradations of the wildlands that had come to define his life. He saw firsthand the remote grasslands in Patagonia turned into tourist cities and the glaciers on Kilimanjaro disappear. He also witnessed the wildlife that inhabited those wildlands decline, and in the mid-90s, he began a series of journeys that allowed him to communicate what was happening to these formally wild regions. He has written seven books and many magazine stories, and he has produced and directed dozens of television shows. His memoir Life Lived Wild was released in October 2021. National Geographic has also honored him with its “Lifetime Achievement in Adventure” award.
Rick serves on six boards of conservation organizations, including the Tompkins Conservation, the Turtle Conservancy, One Earth and the Kiewit Family Foundation. Rick lives in Ojai, California, and has three children and four grandchildren.
More About Grandfather Presents
Our 2022 speaker series at the Wilson Center for Nature Discovery includes three big Thursday night events with internationally and nationally known presenters. Presented by the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, the series also includes three Saturday afternoon presentations focused on nature, adventure or conservation-related topics on a local or regional scale. Read more.
Schedule
5 – 6 p.m.: Entrance Gate opens for event. Proceed about one mile to Wilson Center for Nature Discovery.
5:15 – 5:45 p.m.: VIP event in the sunroom (holders of Pro Series Pass) to meet Rick.
5:30 – 6 p.m.: Reception for all ticket holders inside Wilson Center for Nature Discovery
6 – 7 p.m.: Presentation in Classroom in the Clouds event space
7 – 8 p.m.: Book Signing & Exhibits Open
Tickets
$50 per person (purchase below starting June 6)
Grandfather Presents Series Pass available for Bridge Club Members. Read more.
Refunds/Cancelations
The majority of Grandfather Mountain events generally sell out and have a waiting list. If you cannot attend the event that you registered for please let us know. Full refunds will be given to individuals who reach out to us at least five days before the event. This allows time for individuals on the waiting list to make accommodations to attend the event. To cancel your registration please call 828-733-2013 Monday-Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
In partnership with the Johnson Collection, Hub City Bookshop welcomes Dr. Erin Templeton to Spartanburg County Library Headquarters for a discussion of Delia Owens’s novel Where the Crawdads Sing. Just in time for the July 15th release of the Crawdads film adaptation, which will feature paintings by Johnson Collection artist Alice Smith, Converse University Dean Dr. Erin Templeton will appear on Thursday, July 14 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Spartanburg County Public Library Headquarters to lead a discussion of the book and its themes.
Part of a series of programs designed to showcase Alice Smith’s work and celebrate Spartanburg’s connection to the film through the Johnson Collection, this discussion will be free and open to all. Copies of Crawdads will be available for sale at the event and for presale, as will copies of Alice: Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, a book featuring Smith’s artwork. Reserve your copy of either book with a ticket!
About the Book
More than 12 million copies sold worldwide
A Reese’s Book Club Pick
A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade
“I can’t even express how much I love this book! I didn’t want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon
“Painfully beautiful.”—The New York Times Book Review
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens.
Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
About Dr. Erin Templeton
Dr. Templeton is the Dean of the College of Humanities, Sciences, and Business.
She earned her BA and MA from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and she earned her PhD in American Literature and twentieth-century British and Irish literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She enjoys teaching American literature as well as twentieth-century literature in its many forms and varieties. Some of the classes that she has offered include seminars on twentieth-century poetry, F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, the 20th-century American novel, Contemporary American fiction, 20th century Women’s fiction, and the English department senior seminar in literary studies. She has also traveled with students to Costa Rica, Cuba, England, France, and Ireland.
Professor Templeton’s research interests include transatlantic modernism, the intersections of authorship and gender in early twentieth-century literature, and textual studies. She recently wrote the edition to the Handheld Press edition of Zelda Fitzgerald’s novel Save Me the Waltz and contributed an essay to the Modernism/modernity PrintPlus cluster “Reading The Waste Land with the #MeToo Generation. She has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to William Carlos Williams and has published essays on the gender dynamics of authorial collaboration in Williams’s long poem “Paterson” as well as on Ezra Pound’s relationship with early twentieth-century pianist and composer, George Antheil. She is a former contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s column “Profhacker” and has contributed numerous essays to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism on figures such as T. S. Eliot, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound.
In her spare time, Dr. Templeton is a crime fiction junkie who enjoys running, walking her dog, and cheering for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
About the Artwork
Paintings by South Carolina artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876–1958) from the Johnson Collection will be shown in the major motion picture, Where the Crawdads Sing—the film adaptation of the New York Times best-selling book of the same name by Delia Owens. Opening July 15, 2022, Crawdads will include images of Alice Smith’s watercolors of the Carolina Lowcountry. The film’s director, Olivia Newman, sought inspiration from Smith’s art to “capture [the main character’s] world, the marsh and swamps….We looked at paintings, we looked at photography, and we drew from all of the mediums.” Find out more about Alice on The Johnson Collection’s website.
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith’s luminous paintings reflect a body of work characterized by her experimentations in various mediums and mastery of watercolors. Smith is best remembered for her scenic views of Charleston and the surrounding wilds of the Carolina Lowcountry on display in Nature I Loved: Alice Ravenel Huger Smith and the Carolina Lowcountry from July 13–September 24, 2022 at TJC Gallery. The Johnson Collection’s downtown Spartanburg gallery is open Wednesday–Saturday, 12–4pm and is always free to visitors.
About the Johnson Collection
Located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Johnson Collection has been hailed for having staged a “quiet art historical revolution” and expanding “the meaning of regional” through its “exhibitions, loans, publications, and institutional partnerships.” What began as an interest in paintings by Carolina artists in 2002 has grown to encompass 1,200 objects with provenances that span the centuries and chronicle the cultural evolution of the American South. Since 2012, TJC has produced four significant scholarly books, including its 2018 volume, Central to Their Lives: Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, which featured artwork by Alice Smith in its pages as well as its traveling companion exhibition.
Hub City Bookshop, in partnership with The Johnson Collection, presents a discussion of Delia Owens’s “Where the Crawdads Sing.
In partnership with the Johnson Collection, Hub City Bookshop welcomes Dr. Erin Templeton to Spartanburg County Library Headquarters for a discussion of Delia Owens’s novel Where the Crawdads Sing. Just in time for the July 15th release of the Crawdads film adaptation, which will feature paintings by Johnson Collection artist Alice Smith, Converse University Dean Dr. Erin Templeton will appear on Thursday, July 14 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Spartanburg County Public Library Headquarters to lead a discussion of the book and its themes.
Part of a series of programs designed to showcase Alice Smith’s work and celebrate Spartanburg’s connection to the film through the Johnson Collection, this discussion will be free and open to all. Copies of Crawdads will be available for sale at the event and for presale, as will copies of Alice: Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, a book featuring Smith’s artwork. Reserve your copy of either book with a ticket!
We are so excited to spend an evening with Viola Shipman talking over her book The Edge of Summer. What better way to do it than over a couple of cocktails??
Reminiscent of the complex, uplifting family stories by Nancy Thayer, Sunny Hostin and Mary Alice Monroe, Viola Shipman’s poignant new novel explores the relationship between a curious woman and her secretive mother, taking readers from their hardscrabble life in the Ozarks to her search for answers along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan.
Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book!
Join us on Monday, July 18th at 5:30 pm for a special In Conversation event with the most produced playwright of 2019-2020, Kate Hamill! She’ll be chatting with the director of her new play, Shelly Butler, about making the adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter a reality.
The cast will be doing a staged reading of this brand new play on August 12th, but you can join Kate and Shelley at our store on July 18th for an in-depth look into what turning a novel into a play really looks like.
This is a free event!
Find out more about the reading and the SC New Play Festival online.
About the book:
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross.
Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet.
Fee
A $3 fee is required to assist the organizer with costs related to A Novel Bunch.
Nourishment
We always go to a restaurant to dine after the discussion so plan to join us for this. We will eat at Sticky Fingers.
Join us for a dinner party you’ll never forget honoring author Megan Miranda and her new novel, The Last to Vanish.
We are beyond excited to have Megan Miranda not just in our building, but at our table! Megan is “a master of misdirection and sudden plot twists” (Booklist, STARRED REVIEW), the author of “clever, stylish mysteries that will seize readers like a riptide” (Publishers Weekly, STARRED review) featuring “dizzying plot twists and multiple surprise endings” (The New York Times Book Review). And she’s one of our favorites! This new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills near hundreds of miles of vast wilderness, is no exception.
To celebrate having Megan with us, and with her brand new book no less, we’re hosting an after-hours four course meal, all inspired by The Last to Vanish. Each book-inspired course is paired with an equally delicious and inspired wine, making this a night to go down in book-lovers history!
Your ticket includes a welcome cocktail, a four course meal prepared by Chef Teryi Musolf, wine pairings, an evening with the author, and a signed copy of the book.
Gratuity included.
Join us on Tuesday, July 26th at 5:30 pm for a special In Conversation event with Jim Sonefeld of Hootie & the Blowfish! He’ll be talking about his book Swimming with the Blowfish, the ultimate front-row seat.
For a time, there was no bigger band in the world than Hootie & the Blowfish—rock & roll’s unexpected foil to the grunge music that dominated the early ’90s airwaves. Jim Sonefeld, drummer and one of the group’s principal songwriters, reveals their humble beginnings, meteoric rise, Grammy Award–winning musicianship, sudden fall, and ultimate rebirth—and opens his heart to readers about addiction, recovery, and faith.
This is a free event!
Join us for Lunch & Lit with Katherine Center and her book, The Bodyguard.
Called “My perfect 10 of a book,” by the rom-com-queen Emily Henry, this is the summer read you’ve been waiting for! He’s a major celebrity with secrets and a stalker; she’s a bodyguard that looks more like a kindergarten teacher. When he has to go home, but doesn’t want to raise suspicion, his bodyguard has to play girlfriend… what could possibly go wrong? Like Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynold’s film The Proposal, this story is fun, flirty, and hilarious. Don’t miss this lunch to talk about it; it’s going to be an utter delight.
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.
Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.
But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.
Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies… even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting! We pair the qualities of each wine with a book that shares the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting, apart from the tastes, includes your choice of one of the featured books. Bottles of the featured wines will be for sale at great prices, too. This event is a crowd favorite, serving as a great date, a perfect girls night out, or treat to yourself. Buy your ticket now and join us on Thursday, July 28th!
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Join us for our Movie Review Crew film discussion. This month we will discuss “All About Eve” (1950) and “Love & Mercy” (2014). This program is open to all adult patrons and no registration is required. |
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Join our Novel Tea Book Club! This month we will be discussing memoirs. Choose one and come share! No spoilers, please! Please call if you need more information. |
We are so excited to spend an evening with New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London, Madeline Martin! What better way to do it than over a couple of cocktails??
She’ll be sharing about her moving new novel inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II, The Librarian Spy, and we’ll have a special cocktail inspired by the story. You’ll get the chance to hear how a book like this comes about, and ask your own questions of Madeline. We’ll end the evening with a book signing, and if you wish, more cocktails!
SUMMARY
Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence.
Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them.
As the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war.
The second speaker in our 2022 Grandfather Presents series is Ginger Zee. Ginger is the chief meteorologist and managing editor of the climate unit at ABC News. You can see her covering the nation’s weather headlines on Good Morning America and across all ABC News broadcasts and digital platforms. She also hosts an ABC News original digital series, Food Forecast, focused on climate and its impact on agriculture. Ginger has covered almost every major weather event and dozens of historic storms during the past 15 years—from Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane Sandy and Michael; from the Australian wildfires to the climate’s impact on Victoria Falls, Africa; and the aftermath of tornadoes all over the United States, most notably those in Moore and El Reno, Oklahoma. She has covered blizzards in Boston and record-breaking heat in Death Valley. She not only shares her passion for meteorology, but more importantly, she presents the compassion and human side of these storms.
Having storm-chased since college, Ginger has a genuine love for the atmosphere and a dedication to getting young people interested in science. She has written a STEM trilogy called Chasing Helicity for middle grades, which follows a storm chasing a young woman named Helicity across the U.S. while learning about science and life.
Ginger is the author of Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One and A Little Closer to Home: How I Found the Calm After the Storm, which debuted in January 2022. Both books focus on Ginger’s own depression and journey of discovery around mental health issues.
Ginger, who is an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning meteorologist, attended Valparaiso University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology. She served as an adjunct professor at her alma mater from 2008 to 2011. Ginger also holds the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist seal from the American Meteorological Society. In March 2020, Ginger was inducted into the Weather Hall of Fame in Oklahoma. She lives with her husband and two sons in New York.
Ginger agreed to be the face and voice of Grandfather’s new Weather and Climate exhibit in the Wilson Center. Guests can see her narrating a video on the differences between weather and climate and how they affect the mountain in the Paul & Susie O’Connell Exhibit Hall.
More About Grandfather Presents
Our 2022 speaker series at the Wilson Center for Nature Discovery includes three big Thursday night events with internationally and nationally known presenters. Presented by the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, the series also includes three Saturday afternoon presentations focused on nature, adventure or conservation-related topics on a local or regional scale. Read more.
Schedule
5 – 6 p.m.: Entrance Gate opens for event. Proceed about one mile to Wilson Center for Nature Discovery.
5:15 – 5:45 p.m.: VIP event in the sunroom (holders of Pro Series Pass) to meet Ginger Zee.
5:30 – 6 p.m.: Reception for all ticket holders inside Wilson Center for Nature Discovery
6 – 7 p.m.: Presentation in Classroom in the Clouds event space
7 – 8 p.m.: Book Signing & Exhibits Open
Tickets
$50 per person (purchase below starting June 24)
Grandfather Presents Series Pass available for Bridge Club Members. Read more.
Refunds/Cancelations
The majority of Grandfather Mountain events generally sell out and have a waiting list. If you cannot attend the event that you registered for please let us know. Full refunds will be given to individuals who reach out to us at least five days before the event. This allows time for individuals on the waiting list to make accommodations to attend the event. To cancel your registration please call 828-733-2013 Monday-Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Join us on Thursday, August 4th at 5:30 pm for an In Conversation event with Madeline Martin!
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London comes a moving new novel inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II. Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance…
This is a FREE event!
We are so excited to spend an evening with Allie, the heart and soul behind Ladygroove, talking over her book of fine art nudes: Her Body: A riotous celebration of the female form. What better way to do it than over a couple of cocktails?? Ladygroove is a fine art nude & somatic photography studio based in Greenville, South Carolina, founded by Allie Monday. Her muse is the human body. Her philosophy is peace & play.
Join us Thursday, August 4th at 7:30 pm to learn more!
Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.
* If you are coming with a guest and would like to share a single book between you, please select the couple ticket option.
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Join us this month as we Read, Adapt, and Discuss the changes to the discussing the differences in adapting a nonfiction story to a movie with In The Heart Of The Sea. Copies of the book will be available for checkout from the Cyrill-Westside Library, and the movie will be shown before a discussion about the two! |
Come out to Greenville Literacy Association’s annual book sale at McAllister square! The Foothills Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet will be providing music for this festive occasion. Please consider not only supporting us but also the Greenville Literacy Association.