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Literary Fix
Written By: Emily Crowell | Issue: 2018/10 - October
Both literature and outdoor enthusiasts alike will be delighted to meet local author and wilderness enthusiast Brent Martin of the Bartram Trail Society at the library. On Friday, October 2, at 2:00 P.M. he’ll be presenting “Mountains Piled Upon Mountains” – a journey into 18th-century Western North Carolina through the eyes of William Bartram. The presentation will explore the cultural and natural history of the Little Tennessee and Upper Chattooga valleys as described in 1775 in Bartram’s famous Travels. Following the hour-long presentation, there’ll be an optional two-mile hike on the Bartram Trail near Highlands beginning at the Osage Overlook. You can find a copy of Bartram’s Travels on the shelves of Hudson Library (or, if not, you can place a hold on it) as well as a few of Brent’s books in the poetry and nonfiction sections.
Hudson’s popular Books and Bites series continues by welcoming author Olivia deBelle Byrd on October 18 at 12:30 P.M. for a talk and book-signing. Olivia delights audiences across the South with her humorous vignettes and tales of classic Southern personalities. The daughter of one of the first Pepsi bottlers in the South, she knows what it’s like to grow up amid Southern traditions. Her book novel, “Save My Place,” is a coming-of-age story that earned gold medals for Florida Fiction and Cover Design for the Florida Publishers Association. Her first book of humorous anecdotes, “Miss Hildreth Wore Brown: Anecdotes of a Southern Belle,” was awarded two silver medals from the Florida Publishers Association. Olivia is a longtime resident of Panama City, Florida, where she lives with her husband Tommy and, in addition to writing, enjoys visiting family (three grandchildren in particular) in Austin, Texas. If she’s as wittily charming in person as she is in writing – and I suspect she will be – Highlands is in for a real treat with her visit.
The younger literary types among us – particularly those who may struggle with reading – have a new friend at Hudson Library: Paisley the Reading Sheepdog. The fluffy, gentle, eternally lovable Paisley will be visiting the Hudson on the third Thursdays of every month at 3:30 P.M. and loves stories. She’ll be there during regularly-scheduled Kids Zone activities, so kids can slip away from the program, grab a book, and read to her one at a time with no pressure. Paisley and the Hudson Library hope to help kids not only learn to read but love to read.
