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The Gnu’s letter – June 2008
The Gnu’s letter
June 2008
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
JUNE GNU BREW
Please join us on Friday, June 27, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. as we welcome local author, Sue McDougald Watson.
Sue moved to Auburn about three years ago having spent most of her life in the tiny hamlets of Lowndesboro and Glenwood, Alabama. A former educator in the public school system, Sue is now teaching sophomore and senior English at Lee-Scott Academy, and spends her spare time being a hands-on grandmother to three rambunctious grandchildren.
She has recently published her first book, Jane Ellen’s Path. Set in the turbulent times of the 1960’s, it is a fictional account of the struggles of two women, one poor and black, the other white and privileged, who are best friends. A tale of poverty, injustice, financial insecurity, separation and need as well as love, loyalty, and reconciliation, Jane Ellen’s Path could be the story of any number of women who came of age in the South during that time.
Recently someone asked Sue how long she had been a writer. Her answer, “All my life. I have been fascinated with words for as long as I can remember. When I learned to read, I felt as if the entire world had been opened to me. I still feel that way about the written word.”
Sue will be discussing her novel and will be happy to sign copies during the evening.
Summer Night 2008 - downtown art walk
You will not want to miss the second annual Summer Night downtown art walk this Friday, June 20, 2008. This event celebrates local artists and will be a fun-filled evening of art, music, food and fun. From 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. you can browse artists’ booths for paintings, pottery, prints and more. There will be special events for the kids and music by Todd Vickery and the Alabama Gravy Soppers. Downtown restaurants will be providing food specials. Last year’s event was a lot of fun, and this year promises to be even bigger and better. We hope to see you there!
Artist of the Month—Christopher Newton
Christopher Newton is a student at Auburn University who spent several fire seasons during 2003 through 2005 in the Pacific Northwest, California, Arizona, Idaho and Montana. His photographs are “representations of milliseconds of my life and the lives of some of the finest individuals I have ever had the privilege of knowing.”
Christopher refers to the photographic display as “My Crucible.” It is a period of his life in which his character was tempered and greatly refined through his experiences with fire and people.
The photographs have been described by several of our store patrons as “riveting.” Come by and take a look at the display and read Christopher’s description of “My Crucible.” In his words, “Although fire is potentially hazardous and destructive, it is my hope to convey its beautiful and regenerative properties given the proper context.”
Prints are available upon request.
THIS MONTH IN BOOKS
June 3, 1964 T. S. Eliot writes to Groucho Marx: “The picture of you in the newspaper saying that, amongst other reasons, you have come to London to see me has greatly enhanced my credit line in the neighborhood , and particularly with the greengrocer across the street.”
June 5, 1900 Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage), 28, dies in a sanitarium in Badenweiler, Germany, of tuberculosis, compounded by malarial fever caught while he was covering the Spanish-American War in Cuba.
June 10, 1928 Artist and author of children’s books, Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
June 17, 1917 Gwendolyn Brooks is born in Topeka, Kansas. A poet and novelist, Brooks will become the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, in 1950, for Annie Allen.
June 22, 1913 Amy Lowell gives an “Imagist” dinner party attended, among others, by Ford Madox Ford (author of 81 books—32 of them novels), who says he has no idea what the word means and suspects no one else does either..
June 24, 1842 Cynical author, Ambrose Bierce (The Devil’s Dictionary) is born in Meigs County, Ohio. Jack London will say: “Bierce would bury his best friend with a sigh of relief, and express satisfaction that he was done with him.”
June 26, 1892 Novelist Pearl S. Buck, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature, is born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. A few months later, her missionary parents return to China, which will remain her home until 1933.
June 27, 1880 Helen Keller is born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Deaf, mute and blind from the age of 19 months due to scarlet fever, will write fluently about her life: The World I Live In and The Song of the Stone Wall.
June 30, 1857 Charles Dickens gives the first public reading from his works—A Christmas Carol—at St. Martin’s Hall, London.
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
- Louisa May Alcott
The Gnu’s Room Bookstore & Coffee house
414 S Gay St
Auburn, AL
Phone: 334-821-5550
Fax: 334-821-5550
Email: tina@gnusroom.com
Good books…Great Coffee
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