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Every month, we are highlighting one of the themes in the Teen 10 to Try Reading Challenge; for the month of February it is Award Winners. Join us as we talk our favorite titles that have won various book awards (maybe even add some to your TBR pile) as well as enjoying some themed snacks, activities, and maybe even a game or two.
All teens are welcomed, even if you are not currently participating in the Teen 10 to Try Reading Challenge.
The author, Rita Finch Pettit will be talking about Always, Never, Still, her second novel. It’s the sequel to Chrysalis, the first novel in her Shenandoah Stories series. If you like Christian romance featuring engaging young adults trying to live out their faith, you’ll love this new installment of the compelling series.
The author grew up in a small South Carolina town, but covered a lot of ground since then: Rita lived in Texas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi,…
Join us for the kickoff event for the second annual Hungry for History.
Local author, Mike Robinson, will give a presentation about local tavern history in Winchester. Taverns were a central part of colonial life. They were not only a place to consume alcohol. They were places where travelers could find lodging, where guests could get a good meal, and where citizens could engage in political discussions and hold meetings for organizations. Taverns were for the well-off and…
Introduction and Background
Handley Regional Library is a regional facility serving the city of Winchester and the counties of Clarke and Frederick. The Library acquires and makes available a wide variety of popular and informational materials to meet the intellectual, educational, social, cultural, recreational, and community information needs of the people of the area. In addition, the Library houses and provides access to a variety of materials relating to the history of the lower Shenandoah…
Since 1975, Critton Hollow has brought traditional American music to audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Ireland, and Scotland. With fiddle, hammer dulcimer, banjo, and guitar, the band tends a stable of songs from the first settlements of Appalachia to the best of contemporary American folk music. Songs that express a range of experience that can make you laugh or make you cry and occasionally do both at the same time, ballads that tell stories of bad men and disappointed…
Since 1975, Critton Hollow has brought traditional American music to audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Ireland, and Scotland. With fiddle, hammer dulcimer, banjo, and guitar, the band tends a stable of songs from the first settlements of Appalachia to the best of contemporary American folk music. Songs that express a range of experience that can make you laugh or make you cry and occasionally do both at the same time, ballads that tell stories of bad men and disappointed…
Meet the author of Wizard Clip Haunting: A True Early American Ghost Story - an historical novel about the colorful characters and mysterious events at the Adam Livingston farm in 1797 Middleway, WV. Dr. Stan Williams will talk about his ten-year journey researching and writing about the events that formed much of the values and culture of that area.
When America was young, reckless, and fiercely independent, an equally independent farmer and a renegade priest reluctantly join forces…
From Andrew Lawler, the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, comes A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that uncovers the neglected truth behind the American Revolution, and focuses on the role of Lord Dunmore, the colony’s royal governor, who is commonly portrayed as a villain who opposed the patriots and destroyed the port of Norfolk. A Perfect Frenzy will…
Critically Acclaimed Author and record setter for fastest hiker of Appalachian Trail in 2011
Jennifer Pharr Davis is a lover of long trails and good stories. She has made a name for herself both as a record setting hiker and National Geographic Adventurer, and as a writer who has penned numerous books and articles for the New York Times, Outside, and Backpacker. Pharr Davis has inspired women and men across the country with her message that "the trail is there for everyone at every phase of…
Maps are a magic carpet. One look takes us back in time. We can travel with Amerigo Vespucci along the coast of the western hemisphere that would be named for him. We can visit Ajacán, the Spanish mission established on the peninsula between the York and James rivers in 1570, 37 years before Jamestown. We can walk the streets of Winchester as James Wood laid it out in 1744. We can meet Native Americans where they lived and formerly enslaved Blacks in their Freedman villages.
In Traveling…