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Tom Chaney No. 43: A Mirror Unto Life Of Writers and Their Books, No. 43 from 11 Dec. 2005, Tom Chaney essay, A Mirror Unto Life The next earlier Tom Chaney Book Review No. 230 a review of Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave, by Roger Brucker By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com When I was teaching college freshman how to write - a process not fraught with a great deal of success - one of my favorite essays to use for a model was by Tennessee Williams entitled "The Timeless World of a Play." I've not read it for years, but I still remember one example he gives to illustrate how theatre gives us a chance to step out of the pressure of life to contemplate what we cannot remove ourselves from in the reality of time. 2009-11-15 02:56:17 | Comments | Printable version
CU to host Senator Mitch McConnell for book signing By Christina Miller, student news writer CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY -U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will sign Republican Leader: A Political Biography on Senator Mitch McConnell by Kentucky author John David Dyche at Campbellsville University November 13. The book signing begins at 11amET/10amCT in Campbellsville University's Barnes & Noble College Bookstore, in the Davenport Student Commons, 410 N. Hoskins AV, Campbellsville, KY. 2009-11-11 18:32:43 | Comments | Printable version
Books Link: Girl Trouble/Holly Goddard Jones, Russellville, KY KENTUCKY AUTHORS To ColumbiaMagazine.com: A an article on Girl Trouble and the author Holly Goddard Jones is at this link: Kentucky native creates Roman tragedy in her home state by Josh Kegley in LexGo Read on ky.com. s/Phil Hanna 2009-11-08 04:57:09 | Comments | Printable version
Tom Chaney No. 230: Review of Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar Of Writers and Their Books, No. 230 8 November 2009. Tom Chaney book review of Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave, by Roger Brucker The next earlier Tom Chaney Book Review Hosannas to the Herb Divine a review of Organic Tobacco Growing in America: and Other Earth-Friendly Farming by Mike Little, Fielding Daniel, Mark Smith, and Jim Haskins. By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com Roger Brucker came into the Bookstore on a Sunday afternoon some time back. He told me that he was writing a novel about Stephen Bishop, the slave who was a guide at Mammoth Cave during the first half of the nineteenth century. He read a chapter or so to me, and I was hooked -- wanting more. 2009-11-08 04:14:38 | Comments | Printable version
Tom Chaney No. 229, 1 Nov. 2009: Hosannas to the Herb Divine Of Writers and Their Books, No. 229 1 November 2009. Tom Chaney book review of Organic Tobacco Growing in America: and Other Earth-Friendly Farming by Mike Little, Fielding Daniel, Mark Smith, and Jim Haskins. The next earlier Tom Chaney Book Review Faith and Politics by John Danforth By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com Organic Tobacco or "Hosannas to the Herb Divine" My erstwhile editor, partner, brother-in-law came in The Bookstore t'other day and flung a promising book my way. I never know whether he is trying to brain me or give me a book I ought to either sell or read or all three. 2009-11-01 12:15:02 | Comments | Printable version
Tom Chaney: 25 Oct. 2009. Faith and Politics Of Writers and Their Books, 25 October 2009. Column first ran in fall of 2006. Tom Chaney book review of Faith and Politics by John Danforth The next earlier Tom Chaney essay The Road to Gandolfo by Robert Ludlum By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com Republican Senator John Danforth's politics of reconciliation Senator John Danforth served three terms as the Republican senator from Missouri (1979-1995). He served as ambassador to the United Nations and as special envoy for peace in Sudan. 2009-10-25 05:47:35 | Comments | Printable version
Author from Casey Co., KY in new Horse Cave Theatre book Betty Peterson's work in book which also has work by Billy Edd Wheeler, Sallie Bingham, Jim Wayne Miller, Liz Bussey Fentress, Nancy Gall-Clayton, Joe Terrence Gray, John Howell, Ron Mielech, Jim Peyton, Larry Pike and Frank Schaefer. By David Cazalet, Jr., Somerset Community College Director of Public Relations Seventeen brand-new plays were produced during Warren Hammack's 25 years of leadership as artistic director at Horse Cave Theatre. Louisville publisher MotesBooks has collected 14 of those scripts in a new 620-page volume, including a play by Somerset Community College English Professor Betty Peterson. 2009-10-24 11:51:16 | Comments | Printable version
Tom Chaney No. 227, 18 Oct. 2009. Papal High Jinks Of Writers and Their Books, No. 227, 18 October 2009 Tom Chaney book review of The Road to Gandolfo by Robert Ludlum The next earlier Tom Chaney essay The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com Papal High Jinks Robert Ludlum is another of those writers who died long before I was finished wanting to read them. Upon his death at 73 he had finished 29 novels. Twice that number would not have been enough, although he left notes and ideas enough that several ghost writers have kept busy. 2009-10-18 05:19:49 | Comments | Printable version
(Site ADV) Written any good books lately? Let us know We need your help. Keeping up with the bibliography of South Central Kentucky authors is a growing challenge lately, with all the wonderful new books being published by authors in Adair, Casey, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Russell and Taylor Counties. If you're book hasn't been reviewed in ColumbiaMagazine.com, let us know. We can't do reviews on all of them ourselves, but we'll carefully consider every submission. Christmas is coming, and we're hoping books by and about South Central Kentucky will be a big part of giving this year. If you have a book ready to publish, but aren't sure about getting it into print, contact us. Send using any Contact/Submit button, preferably the Comments button with this article. 2009-10-16 06:24:23 | Comments | Printable version
Past Metcalfe Co. HS, Edmonton, KY, Yearbooks available The Metcalfe County High School Yearbook staff has several yearbooks from previous years available for purchase. All yearbooks are $20 or 2 for $30. A list the books available as of September 30, 2009 are: 1988, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. If you are interested in purchasing one of these, you may contact me at sharna.acree@metcalfe.kyschools.us or visit the yearbook booth at the Pumpkin Festival in Edmonton, KY, Saturday, October 3, 2009. Sharna A. Acree, Business & Marketing Education Metcalfe County High School FBLA/Yearbook Advisor 2009-09-30 08:12:21 | Comments | Printable version
Tom Chaney No. 223: Sept. 20, 2009: At the Dusk of Dawn Of Writers and Their Books, No. 223, Sunday, September 20 , 2009 Tom Chaney: At the Dusk of Dawn About the poetry Albery Allson Whitman, Hart County poet who had been freed in the Emanicipation Proclamation. The book is edited by Ivy G. Wilson The next earlier Tom Chaney author review The Lighted Torch of the 'Secesh' or Civil War Days in Reality By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com At the Dusk of Dawn These columns began more than four years ago with a discussion of A. A. Whitman -- black poet of the nineteenth century; born in slavery as he put it in a preface to an 1873 narrative poem "in the Green River country, near Munfordville, Hart county, Kentucky, May the 30th, 1851; born a slave, and serving as such until the Proclamation of Emancipation." 2009-09-20 08:25:54 | Comments | Printable version
ACPL Book Club meets Tues., Sept. 15, 2009 Selection is Time Traveler's Wife. October selection will be Cane River The Adair County Public Library Book Club is meeting September 15, 2009 at 4:30pmCT, at the Adair County Public Library, 307 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY. The selection for this month is The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six. Henry has Chrono-Displacement Disorder which allows him to travel back in time. They end up falling in love and getting married. A tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love. October's book selection is Cane River by Lalita Tademy. For more information you can call the Library at (270) 384-2472 and ask for LeeAnn or Ernie. -Ernestine Bennett 2009-09-14 10:45:52 | Comments | Printable version
Tom Chaney No. 222: Sept. 13, 2009: The Lighted Torch Of Writers and Their Books, No. 222, Sunday, September 13, 2009 Tom Chaney: The Lighted Torch of the 'secesh' or civil war days in reality The next earlier Tom Chaney author review Fenton Johnson: A Fine Voice from New Haven, KY By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com The Lighted Torch of the 'Secesh' or Civil War Days in Reality Four years ago I shared this letter which Chip Palmore found concerning an event in Hart County during the War Between the States. I hesitate to call it the Civil War -- human slaughter seems most un-civil to me. 2009-09-13 09:35:11 | Comments | Printable version
Tom Chaney No. 221: Fenton Johnson, New Haven, KY Of Writers and Their Books, No. 221, Sunday, September 6, 2009 Fenton Johnson, a fine voice from New Haven The next earlier Tom Chaney essay, on food How Many Biscuits Can You Eat? By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com Fenton Johnson: A Fine Voice from New Haven, KY One of the great pleasures of the last dozen or so years has been the illuminating, new voice of Fenton Johnson, come out of New Haven in Nelson County. 2009-09-06 07:52:40 | Comments | Printable version
2010 ACHS Yearbooks go on sale September 8, 2009 The Adair County High School 2010 Yearbook will go on sale Tuesday, September 8, 2009. The cost is $50 with a $25 minimum deposit required to reserve a copy. The balance is due by December 4, 2009. All students will have their name stamped on the cover of their yearbook. Extra yearbooks will not be ordered this year. Students may purchase yearbooks from any staff member or from Mr. Parnell. -Chad Parnell 2009-09-04 09:59:43 | Comments | Printable version
Author Tori Murden McClure speaks to overflow crowd at LWC Click on headline for story plus 3 photo collage By Duane Bonifere, LWC Director of Public Relations Adventurer and author Tori Murden McClure of Louisville, Ky., spoke to an overflow crowd of more than 250 people Tuesday night at the Norma & Glen Hodge Center for Discipleship. McClure discussed her book, A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean, which chronicled the spiritual aspect of her journey to become the first woman and first American to row solo and unassisted across the Atlantic Ocean. 2009-09-02 01:21:59 | Comments | Printable version
Tom Chaney #219 review of The Advocate 23 August 2009 Of Writers and Their Books. Tom Chaney. Tom Chaney's review of Bill Mesce's The Advocate The next earlier Tom Chaney essay, #218, is a commentary on Julia and Julie By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com When the Guns Are Turned On an August day in 1943, shepherd Gresham arises early, makes his tea and biscuit, sharing with his dog, then goes out into the English morning above the coast to do his chores with his hens and sheep. Overnight a fox had got into the hen house. Gresham makes necessary repairs, and with the dog takes the sheep to pasture away from the high cliffs that border the English Channel. 2009-08-23 07:45:43 | Comments | Printable version
Tom Chaney #218: Commentary on Julia and Julie Of Writers and Their Books. Review #218, 16 August 2009, Someone's in the kitchen with Julia Commentary on Julia Child and Julie Powell. Next previous Tom Chaney review Pegasus Descending by Cormac McCarthy By Tom Chaney bookstore@scrtc.com Someone's in the kitchen with Julia I went to the movies on a recent Saturday night. Haven't been too often since I escaped the wiles of Philadelphia in 1994. I just got out of the habit, plus there are so many books to read. 2009-08-16 04:48:04 | Comments | Printable version
Author Laura Emberton Owens will hold book signing Author Laura Emberton Owens will hold book signing Laura Emberton Owens will be doing a book signing at Wall Works, 102 S. Main ST, Edmonton, KY on Monday, August 17, 2009, from 3:00pm-5:00pmCT. 2009-08-14 00:32:37 | Comments | Printable version
ACPL Book Club will have potluck at April 18, 2009, meeting The Adair County Public Library Book Club will meet August 18, 2009 at 4:30pmCT at the Adair County Public Library, 307 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY. This month's read is "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. We will also be havng our potlick meal that afternoon. All book club members are asked to call Ernie or Lee Ann at (270) 384-2472 and tell them what you are bringing. Drinks and meat will be provided. Lee Ann Jessee, Director 2009-08-11 10:37:10 | Comments | Printable version Only the most recent articles are shown. To see older articles in this topic, Click Here instead. You can also view a list of All Topics. |
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