Year: 2014
BookFest set for November 22
From 11am till 2pm on Saturday, November 22, 11 regional authors and 1 illustrator will be appearing for book signings at 11 downtown shops.
November’s hosting locations are Alleghany Arts & Crafts, Alleghany Historical Museum, Becca’s Backwoods, Books N’ Friends, Farmer’s Hardware, Imaging Specialists, Inc., Mangum-Cater on Main, Sparky’s Coffeehouse, Studio Redwood, Touch of Grace, and The Vintage Cottage.
Authors are Doug Butler, Chris Cox, Karen Hall, Jeff Halsey, Suzanne Irwin & Zach Hamm, Illustrator, Ellie Kirby, Aaron McAlexander, Elva Sieg, Diane Trott, and Sam Williams.
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Alleghany Arts & Crafts:
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Ann Black Ivy Rose |
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Alleghany Historical Museum:
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Doug Butler
After Appomattox: NC Civil War Monuments |
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Becca’s Backwoods:
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Karen Hall Building the Blue Ridge Parkway |
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Books N Friends:
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Elva Sieg
Celebrating the Underdog by Tom Sieg |
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Farmer’s Hardware:
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Chris Cox Waking Up in a Cornfield: A Selection of Columns |
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Imaging Specialists, Inc.:
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Jeff Halsey Star Route Books |
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Mangum Cater Pottery on Main:
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Aaron McAlexander
The Last One Leaving Mayberry |
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Sparky’s Coffeehouse:
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Diane Trott Cherokee Inc.: The Case of the Incinerated Indian |
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Studio Redwood:
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Ellie Kirby The White Bear |
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Touch of Grace:
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Sam Williams Garden Snippets |
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The Vintage Cottage:
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Suzanne Mellow-Irwin and illustrator Zach Hamm The Stratford Oaks Tales |
2014 NCSH Awards
We attended the Annual Awards Banquet of the North Carolina Society of Historians in Mooresville, on October 25.
We won a Joe M. McLauren Newsletter award for the Alleghany Historical Genealogical Society newsletter we produce.
Our 2014 issue Emma Jean’s Blue Ridge Almanac also won Paul Green Multimedia Award. (The 2015 book will be available in November.)
Imaging Specialists, Inc. also redesigned the 14 NCSH award certificates and printed them, this year.
Angel Street
Here’s a poster we drew for Angel Street, the play opening tomorrow night (Halloween) in Sparta. It’s based on the old movie Gaslight, where Charles Boyer tries to convince his new wife, Ingrid Bergman, she’s crazy. We used an actual gas flame for the lamp illustration and found the gradient made a nice, spooky evening background, also.
Plan to join us and the Alleghany Community Theatre at 8:45pm – NO ADMISSION charged, but mainly for adults- not really a kid’s event.
Exciting News at ISI!
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We’re finishing up the 2015 issue of Emma Jean’s Blue Ridge Almanac this week. Books will be available in November, 2014. If you’d like to be a distributor, just let us know. - ISI is now on instagram. Follow us! (And we’re still on facebook. Like us!)
- BookFest is set for November 22, 2014.
Watch for updates soon! - Recently, we’ve helped with projects for NC Society of Historians as well as Northwestern Regional Library. More news on these projects will be posted this month.
- Our new site will be launching later this month, and Star Route Books‘ site and Shop will be changing, as well.
