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CLICK HERE TO VIEW Cabell County Public Library, Saturday April 10th. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. Listen to a panel of writers and publishers discuss Memoir Writing. The participants are Patrick Grace, Jim Gifford, Bob Barnett, and Carter Seaton. Patrick Grace has been involved in publishing books and fine art and photography calendars in Huntington since 1997. One of the projects which he hosts on a regular basis is a life writing class, and many of his graduates have gone on to be published. Jim Gifford, of the Jesse Stuart Foundation in Ashland Kentucky, has been publishing and promoting regional works for many years as part of the Foundation’s mission. The collective experience of these two publishers will, doubtless, provide attendees with an absorbing insight into how memoirs present specific and particular problems for those who publish them. The two authors represented on the panel will bring their own observations about the practice of memoir writing. C. Robert Barnett, a Marshall University professor and contributor to The West Virginia Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Recently Mr. Barnett has written a memoir, and will soon have published a history of sports in West Virginia. The second author is Huntington resident Carter Taylor Seaton, who won widespread acclaim for her first novel, Father’s Troubles, an historical account of wildcatters in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1920s. Each of the panelists brings a different perspective to the issues confronted when trying to create a successful memoir. Cabell County Public Library, Saturday April 10th. 1:00-2:30 pm. Genealogical research has seen a resurgence of interest through the widespread availability of on-line resources. However, there is so much more to this topic which still has to be conducted the old-fashioned way; by doing field research. In his latest book, Stories Told in Stone which serves as the feature of this presentation, Gaylord Cooper, a frequent and popular presenter at the Cabell County Library and, what’s more, an author and certified genealogist, provides an explanation for the interpretation, nomenclature, and symbolism of cemetery markings. Aimed at the researcher, Stories Told in Stone will also delight the more general reader who will find absorbing information that provides historical and cultural context. As well as important information on reading cemetery iconography, the book also contains practical preservation tips, as well as worksheets, source lists and field guides. Cabell County Public Library, Saturday April 10th. 2:30-5:00 pm. Have you ever wondered whether the old books in your attic are worth investigating to see if they could bring much needed income? Chances are they are not, but if they were, how would one go about changing dusty old box-dwellers into hard currency? E-Bay and the Used Bookseller will set you on the right path. David Owens, a native of the United Kingdom but long-time resident in Huntington, has been involved in selling books for over 15 years. In this presentation he will provide a guide through the mechanics of selling on-line, how to research your collection, where to find books, and what alternatives there are to e-Bay for booksellers. While unable to retire from having done all this, he maintains that it is a fun hobby, and a lot cheaper than golf! Huntington Museum of Art, Sunday April 11. 2:00 pm. Join Beau Smith at the Huntington Museum of Art for a gallery walk which will highlight roughly 30 of the works from Mr. Smith’s collection of comic book illustrations. Mr. Smith has been collecting comic book art for over two decades, during which time he has also written for the major publishing houses in the field, including DC Comics, Image Comics, Eclipse Comics, IDW Publishing, Dreamweave Studios, Dark Horse Comics, and Capcom Video Games, as well as writing scripts for a number of movies based on comic book stories. As an author for comic books, Beau Smith has worked with Sam Glanzman, Brad Gorby, Flint Henry, Gary Kwapisz, Graham Nolan, Billy Tucci, Enrique Villagran, and many more. Various techniques and stages of development are represented in the collection. Beau Smith will be on hand for the gallery walk to give insight and instruction on these wonderful examples of the comic book illustrator’s art. Ashland Community and Technical College, Tuesday April 13th. 11:00 am-2:00 pm. The Community and Technical College will host a Sidewalk Poetry Contest. The idea of using public space for art has a long and storied history. The idea of using public space for poetry is an extension of that practice and allows sidewalks to become something other than just pathways from A to B. Public spaces can be used to inspire and to engage people to see their daily surroundings in an entirely different light. Poetry sidewalk contests provide a wonderful opportunity to combine the hard surface of the tangible with the soft corners of our imagination. If you are interested to sign up for this event’s entry click here. Cabell County Library, Tuesday April 13th. 2:00-4:00 pm. Continuing with the Tuesday theme of poetry, Laura Bentley and Mark Defoe will share their considerable experience and skill as poets. Anyone who seeks guidance for their craft, or inspiration to begin writing, would do well to attend. As well as being published poets widely acknowledged, and recognized with awards, throughout the region, Mark Defoe and Laura Bentley are both educators who have brought their passion and zeal for the written word to countless students. From middle school presentations to peer reviews in scholarly publications Bentley and Defoe have performed their work and shared their insights with a wide range of audiences. For anyone who is eager to learn from two highly acclaimed poets and educators, or for anyone who wants to have some of the more intimidating aspects of creating verse explained, this is an important session. Cabell County Library, Tuesday April 13. 6:00-8:00 pm. Founded in 1984, Poetry Alive fields groups of two-person teams who travel to school districts worldwide. Not a canned, ‘cookie-cutter’ event, Poetry Alive’s performance techniques are fresh and focused on connecting students to text. Using the rich heritage of the bardic tradition of long ago, they bring high-intensity poetry performances into the classroom. The Poetry Alive actors have memorized hundreds of poems, from the classics to the popular to the contemporary. Those poems, presented in engaging and memorable ways, become the connection to enhanced reading and writing skills. In short, they bring poetry to life, by engaging students to the learning process. Poetry Alive has become the reading, writing and performing connection. Because Poetry Alive utilizes kinesthetic learning, students of all ages and skill levels can self-actualize skills to improve literacy. Kids of any skill level or background can benefit. Poetry Alive stimulates literacy among all sorts of achievement and interest levels. Performance poetry techniques encourage struggling and emergent readers to break out of traditional methodologies and achieve improved literacy skills. Poetry Alive has become a performance connection to improved literacy. Ashland Community & Technical College, Friday April 16. Noon-1:15 pm. The Ashland Community & Technical College will host a roundtable discussion entitled Using Children’s Literature in the Teacher College Curriculum. Participants in the discussion are Mindy S. Allenger, Assistant Professor/Reading Education in the Marshall University College of Education, Dr. Martha M. Decker, Associate Professor, Early Childhood, Elementary and Special Education, Morehead State University, and Mary Lou Forman, Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education, Ashland Community and Technical College. The panel discussion will be moderated by Matthew Onion, Director of Library Services, Ashland Community and Technical College. This will provide a wonderful opportunity for teachers, homeschoolers, and students to share in insights offered by three specialists in this field. Cabell County Public Library, Saturday April 17th. 9:00 am-4:00 pm.The Friends of the Library will be hosting a booksale in the booksale room on the 4th floor of the library. Always a popular event, shoppers can browse thousands of titles, records, magazines, and ephemera. The Friends group, which hosts three sales a year, uses the funds raised from the booksales to provide supplies and assist the various libraries throughout Cabell County. As well as supporting a good cause, you will be able to use information from other sessions during the festival to value and sell your purchases. Cabell County Public Library, Saturday April 17th. 1:00-2:30 pm.Joe Geiger, Director of Archives and History in the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, will address the specific and rapidly changing needs of Preserving & Presenting the Documentation of Our State. Joe is a graduate of the Marshall University History Department, where he now also teaches West Virginia History. Joe is also the author of The Civil War in Cabell County, long out of print and a highly sought after title among local historians. As Director of the State Archives he faces the varied challenges of the traditional archivist as well as how best to utilize the state’s facilities in an ever changing digital age. Preserving & Presenting the Documentation of Our State will provide an insight into these challenging roles, and will be informative to anyone who has an interest in the history of West Virginia. Two of West Virginia’s leading antiquarian book experts will be on hand to provide an Appraisal Service. Gordon Simmons and Chris Hatten are well known in the W.V book dealing community. Gordon’s years at Trans-Allegheny Books in Charleston helped make that store one of the state’s book treasures. He was also involved in the publication and wholesale distribution of West Virginia titles. His knowledge in the field of antiquarian bookselling is second to none. But, as if that were not impressive enough, he is teaming up with Chris Hatten to provide appraisals of your literary treasures. Chris Hatten is the Library Director at the Huntington Museum of Art, where he has spent two decades amassing one of the most important collections in the state. Visit the Friends of the Library Booksale and then challenge these two to spot the plums among your titles, or bring that treasured volume from home. Informative, surprising, and, perhaps, lucrative, this session is bound to attract a crowd.
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