Schedule of Activities
This year will feature a special kick-off event on the evening
before the Fair. On Friday, November 9th at 6:00 p.m. the
Book Fair will host a one-woman performance of Lee Smith’s
“On Agate Hill” by Barbara Bates Smith (accompanied
by musician Jeff Sebens). The performance will be held in
the Asbury Room of the Sylva First United Methodist Church.
A tax-deductible $25 ticket pays for entrance to the performance
and heavy hors d’oeuvres beginning at 6:00 p.m., with
a curtain call at 7:00 p.m. All proceeds from ticket sales
go to the Library Building Fund.
“On Agate Hill” is adapted from the Lee Smith
novel of the same title. Barbara Bates Smith, noted for her
adaptation and Off-Broadway performance of “Ivy Row”
from Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies, stars in “On
Agate Hill.” The production is directed by Suzanne Tinsley,
with musical accompaniment by Jeff Sebens playing banjo, hammered
dulcimer, and lap dulcimer.
The novel On Agate Hill is the 2007 “Together
We Read” selection for Western North Carolina. The novel’s
heroine, Molly Petree, orphaned by the Civil War, is “a
spitfire and a burden” who risks everything to hold
on to her own nature and to true love.
For more information about the performance, or to purchase
tickets, please call City Lights Bookstore at (828) 586-9499.
In addition, a schedule of readings and panel discussions
on the day of the Fair is in process. This page will be updated
when the details have been worked out.
Book Fair Panels
| 9:30-10:30 |
Poetry: Finding A Voice |
| Moderator: Katherine Byer |
- Catherine Carter
- Nancy Dillingham
- Keith Flynn
|
| 10:30-11:30 |
Food and Memories |
| Moderator: Dottie Brunette |
- Joseph Dabney
- Laurey Masterton
- Louise Nelson
|
| 10:30-11:30 |
Traveling These Mountains |
| Moderator: Richard Starnes |
- Barbara Duncan
- Georgann Eubanks
- Jim Parham
|
| 11:30-12:30 |
Mysteries of Publishing |
| Moderator:TBA |
- Donna Ball
- PT Deuterman
- Vicki Lane
|
| 11:30-12:30 |
Stories with a Sense of Place |
| Moderator: Scott Philyaw |
- Wayne Caldwell
- Joan Medlicott
- John Lane
|
12:30-1:30
|
Writing for Young Adults |
| Moderator: Sue Ellen Bridgers |
- Judith Geary
- Alan Gratz
- Kerry Madden
|
| 12:30-1:30 |
Art and Nature |
| Moderator: Martin DeWitt |
- George & Elizabeth Ellison
- Peter Loewer
- Cathryn & John Sills
|
| 1:30-2:30 |
Music for Children of all Ages |
| |
- David LaMotte
- Betty Smith
|
| 1:30-2:30 |
What Makes People Laugh |
| Moderator: Vance Davidson |
- Curtis Blanton
- George Singleton
- Susan Reinhardt
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