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Storyteller Gary Carden to be a Franklin Library August 2

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Storyteller,Gary Carden of Sylva will be at Macon County Library in Franklin on August 2, 2007, at 7:00 pm.  Check out the news release below.  Please direct any questions to the Macon County Library.  Their contact information is below press release.

 

Eugenia (Jenny) L. Johnson, Director
Swain County Center for the Arts
1415 Fontana Road
Bryson City, NC 28713

 

Phone:  828-488-7843
Fax:  828-488-0523                                                                 
Website:  www.swaincountyschools.com/cfta/index.htm
Email:  Jenny.Johnson@swaincountyschools.org

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   

Thursdays at the Library presents local storyteller Gary Carden at the Macon
County Public Library on Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 7:00 pm.

Gary Carden is the winner of the North Carolina Folklore Society's 2006
Brown-Hudson Folklore Award and author of several books and plays including
'Mason Jars in the Flood and Other Stories' and 'The Prince of Dark
Corners'.

Brought up in Sylva, North Carolina by his grandparents in a "house filled
with the past," Carden was steeped from birth in mountain culture, lore and
language.  Carden relates telling his first stories to his grandfather's
leghorn chickens when he was six years old.  Later he would retell community
happenings and funny stories to his fellow students at school.  His
saturation in the culture was soon complemented by an insatiable appetite
for literature, ultimately leading him to an unlikely education at Western
Carolina University.  >From such beginnings Carden has become the vehicle of
the region's oral heritage.

This program is free and open to area residents and visitors.  Please join
us for an evening of storytelling. 

Thursdays at the Library is an eclectic mixture of programs by authors and
musicians on topics designed for enjoyment and education. All programs are
sponsored through the generosity of the Friends of the Library and the Macon
County Public Library. For more information, please call the library at
524-3600 or check out our website at www.fontanalib.org.

Tracy Fitzmaurice (tfitzmaurice@fontanalib.org)
Assistant County Librarian
www.fontanalib.org
819 Siler Road
Franklin NC 28734
Voice 828-524-3600
Fax   828-524-9550

 

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