[Scmusenet] Dot Jackson's "Refuge" comes to life THURSDAY EVENING, September 20, at the Pickens County Museum

[Allen Coleman]

Author, Dot Jackson will sign her book Refuge.

Local musicians will highlight the music featured in Refuge.

 

     Local author and master storyteller, Dot Jackson will sign and read
excerpts from her book, Refuge, Thursday evening, September 20th, from
6:00 until 7:00 pm at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History.

 

     To further highlight this evening event, local musicians will
"bring to life" the types of music featured in Refuge. Appalachian
ballads performed by Sandy and Donnie Foster. Old Time Fiddle and Banjo,
a la the book characters Ben Aaron Steele and Coy Ray Wilcox courtesy Ed
Bolt and Bert Laboon. Excerpt from Schubert's "Die Schone Mullerin" and
an excerpt from Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" performed by soprano
Catherine Evoe.

 

     Dot Jackson's lifelong career in newspapers drew her to the
mountain regions of the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee,
where she covered murder trials, snake-handlings prayer meetings, and
some of the hardest-fought environmental battles of our times.

 

     Her work garnered Jackson several Pulitzer Prize nominations and
National Conservation Writer of the Year award.  She is co-founder and
on-site manager of the Birchwood Center for Arts and Folklife in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina.  Refuge is Dot Jackson's first
novel.

 

     "What a glorious event is the publication of this beautiful novel
by Dot Jackson, one of the most gifted souls who ever breathed the sweet
air of Appalachia.  In Refuge she confirms the verity that the love we
give, whether to place, people or other creatures, is all the shelter we
need." - Jerry Bledsoe, author of Bitter Blood and Before He Wakes.

 

     Bring a copy of her book that you have already purchased to be
signed or purchase one at The Museum Shop that evening for $25.00.

 

     This program is part of the Pickens County Museum's continuing
effort to provide a variety of entertaining and educational programming
for the community.  It is funded in part by donations from Carroll M.
Wilson and the Isaqueena Questers and through the sponsorship of the
Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co., Inc.

 

     The Pickens County Museum of Art & History, located at the
intersection of Highway 178 at 307 Johnson Street in Pickens, is open
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Thursday from
9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to.4:30 p.m..

 

     For additional information please contact the museum at (864)
898-5963.

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