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The Gnu’s letter – July 2008
The Gnu’s letter
The Gnu’s Room Bookstore
& Coffee house
Summer Hours of Operation:
Monday—Closed Tue through Sat—9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Sunday—Closed
Science Café Auburn
On Friday, July 11th at 7:00 p.m. our guest speaker will be Roma Davis. Roma is the owner of Aromatherapy and Massage Center in Auburn (AMC). She graduated from the Academy of Somatic Healing, and specializes in a combination of Swedish massage and neuromuscular massage. In 2006, AMC added a very powerful modality called Orthobionomy to their menu of services. Roma will be speaking about the health benefits to be gained from her areas of expertise, and will entertain questions from the audience.
Words Café Live!
In addition to the poets, storytellers and spoken word artists normally in attendance, this month’s event features the band, “Park Street.” They will be performing an acoustic set, which will be professionally recorded. Copies of the recording will be made available for later purchase at The Gnu’s Room. The event begins at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 12th.
JULY GNU BREW
Please join us on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. as Marian Carcache visits the store. Marian’s short stories, articles, and reviews have appeared in Shenandoah, Chattahoochee Review, Southern Humanities Review, Bronte Society Transactions and other journals. Her work has been anthologized in Due South, Belles Lettres, Crossroads: Stories of the Southern Literary Fantastic, and most recently, Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers. Under the Arbor, an opera made from her short story and for which she wrote the libretto, appeared on PBS stations nationwide, was nominated for a regional Emmy, and was a finalist in the New York Festivals. She is recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts’ 2003-2004 Fellowship Award for fiction.
Marian grew up in rural Russell County, Alabama and now lives in Auburn with her five dogs and her son nearby. She is studying homeopathy. Marian is also our Artist of the Month. Many of her photographs on display were taken in black and white in rural Russell and Lee counties and hand-tinted using photo oils.
BOOK SIGNING
On Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 4:00 p.m., we are pleased to welcome local author, Gina Lancaster. Gina is a 1986 graduate of Auburn University in Fine Arts. While at Auburn, she worked with the Biology Department illustrating textbooks, which are still in current use. As an artist and designer, Gina won many awards, including the prestigious ADDY award for creative excellence in advertising. In 1989, a rising star in the art world, she had an important show coming up, but the joy and excitement of that event was marred by the sudden death of her beloved brother. The show was a huge success for Gina, but the loss of her brother left her questioning her existence, and would eventually change the course of her life. Her next 20 years were spent discovering truths of generations past, and unearthing healing practices that are just as viable today as they were thousands of years ago.
Gina accumulated years of experience in making herbal remedies, and while studying for her Naturopathic Doctorate Degree, earned certificates in various healing fields including Hands on Healing, Acupressure, Homeopathic Medicine, Herbal Medicine, and Flower Remedies. The culmination of Gina’s research, experience, and training has been the recent publication of her book, In Search of a Cure: While Living Off a Dime. The book details over 1,200 simple and cost conscious remedies. Gina will discuss her book and sign copies.
THIS MONTH IN BOOKS
July 2, 1877 German novelist Hermann Hesse, who will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946 for his novel The Glass Bead Game (aka Magister Ludi), is born in a small town in the Black Forest.
July 4, 1981 On the 155th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s death, Dumas Malone, aged 89 and nearly blind, publishes The Sage of Monticello, the sixth and final volume of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jefferson.
July 8, 1915 H. G. Wells writes Henry James: “To you literature like painting has an end, to me literature like architecture is a means, it has a use.”
July 9, 1942 Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and four other Jews in the Amsterdam warehouse behind her father’s business.
July 12, 1817 Henry David Thoreau is born in Concord, Massachusetts. He will publish only two books in his lifetime: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, and Walden, or Life in the Woods.
July 16, 1951 Little, Brown publishes J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.
July 17, 1889 Attorney and author Erle Stanley Gardner is born in Madden, Massachusetts. Many of his more than 100 novels (written under his own name and the pen name A. A. Fair) will feature lawyer Perry Mason.
July 23, 1880 Mystery writer Raymond Chandler (Farewell, My Lovely; The Big Sleep) is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will be educated in England, France, and Germany, and travel widely before settling in California, which forms the background for his novels.
July 24, 1880 Alexandre Dumas (The Man in the Iron Mask) is born in Villers-Cotterets, France. Since he uses ghostwriters for his formula novels, it will be said: “nobody has read everything of Dumas, not even Dumas himself.”
July 29, 1805 Statesman and writer Alexis de Tocqueville is born in Paris. After a two-year stay in the United States, he will publish Democracy in America (1835–40).
“If I could I would work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”
- Emily Bronte
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