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Celebration For Education, Literacy Council of Highlands
Written By: Bonnie Potts | Issue: 2018/07 - July | Photograph By: Courtesy WCU
New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash will be the keynote speaker for The Literacy Council of Highlands’ summer fundraising event, A Celebration for Education, held Thursday, July 26.
Ron Rash is the author of “Serena,” a bestselling novel that was made into a major motion picture in 2014 starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. He has written five other novels, including “One Foot in Eden,” “Saints at the River,” “The World Made Straight,” and “Above the Waterfall.” Additionally, he has authored five collections of poems and six collections of stories, among them “Burning Bright,” which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; “Chemistry and Other Stories,” which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award; and most recently, “Something Rich and Strange.”
Held at Highlands Falls Country Club Clubhouse, this exciting event will include a lavish dinner, a live auction and paddle raise. All proceeds from A Celebration of Education will benefit The Literacy Council’s ongoing programs, which are free and are open to people of all ages. These programs include an in-school tutoring program for five Macon County schools; an individual tutoring program; an after-school homework helpers program; an after-school enrichment program; an English as a Second Language (ESL) class; a high school equivalency (GED) program; the Dolly Parton Imagination Library; a retirement home book exchange; and a community outreach program. More than 1,200 individuals benefit from these programs every year.
Tickets for A Celebration of Education are $125 each and can be purchased online at maconncliteracy.org or by
calling (828) 526-0863.
