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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
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We host Erik Reece, author of Lost Mountain, the story of mountaintop
removal, for a reading Monday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m. in The Showroom at Hub-Bub. Reece,
a poet and essayist, has contributed numerous articles to such publications as The Oxford American and Harper's Magazine. In February 2006, he
published Lost Mountain,
an alarming account of the irreversible effects radical strip-mining has on the
mountains of Appalachia.
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
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Sheila Ingle, author of the Hub City book Courageous Kate: A Daughter of the American
Revolution, has received the 2007 Historic Preservation Award from the
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). This award
recognizes individuals with exceptional contributions to historic preservation.
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
| Our lead fall title this year will be Spartanburg Revisited: A Second Look at the
Photographs of Alfred and Bob Willis. This father-son photography team
documented almost 80 years of Spartanburg
history: its landmarks, colorful characters, and momentous occasions. This
forthcoming book, with an introduction written by Emily L. Smith, tells the
story of the charismatic men behind the images and revisits their iconic work
with new color photographs by Carroll Foster and Mark Olencki.
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
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| The annual Hub City Creative Writing Prizes have
been awarded to Aly Goodwin in poetry and Mary Ann C. Stoddard in essay. Both
of these Spartanburg
writers will receive full scholarships to the week-long Wildacres Writing
Workshop in Little Switzerland, N.C. this summer.
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Aly Goodwin
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Mary Ann Stoddard
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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The board of the Hub City
Writers Project met March 27, 2007. They voted to approve another full-time
position at Hub-Bub and discussed a future long-range planning session.
Applications for two grants were discussed, and approval was given to a Hub-Bub
color book that will document in pictures the first year of activities.
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