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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT • J.R. McDowell Speaker • Joy Harjo
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Joy Harjo\nWednesday\, October 29\, 7:00 pmPorter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard CollegeDoors open at 6:30 pm \nThe Fall 2025 J.R. McDowell Speaker will be Joy Harjo\, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and the first Native American to hold the position. A poet\, musician\, and author of nine books of poetry and several works of prose\, Harjo has received numerous honors including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work blends poetry\, song\, and storytelling to illuminate themes of resilience\, identity\, memory\, and our relationship with the natural world. \nIn addition to her groundbreaking tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate\, Harjo has performed internationally as a saxophonist and singer and is widely recognized for the way she connects personal history with collective experience. Her presentations invite reflection and renewal\, offering audiences a powerful vision of creativity as a force for healing. Her newest memoir will be released in early October. \nFree general admission tickets are SOLD OUT. Following the talk\, Highland Books will have copies of Harjo’s books available for sale and signing. \nSponsored by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in collaboration with Brevard College\, the McDowell Series brings distinguished speakers to our community to share diverse and thought-provoking perspectives. \n 
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/j-r-mcdowell-speaker-joy-harjo/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Ages
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SUMMARY:Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle: Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference Author Readings
DESCRIPTION:Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference faculty member Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle will give a public reading of her work at the Porter Center on the Brevard College campus on Friday\, May 16\, at 7:30 pm.  \nSponsored by the Transylvania County Library Foundation and Brevard College\, The Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference (LGRWC) offers a unique creative experience for writers\, exploring the theme “A Sense of Place.” Conference participants will work closely with award-winning writers Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle\, Terrance Hayes\, and Elizabeth Rush. In addition\, conference faculty will present public readings of their work on Friday\, May 16 at Brevard College’s Porter Center and Saturday\, May 17 at the Transylvania County Library.  Both events are free to attend and open to the community. Highland Books will be on-site with books for sale\, and the authors will be available to sign copies after their presentations. Workshop attendees were selected based on applications submitted last fall; applications for May 2026 workshops will open in September 2025. \n \nAnnette Saunooke Clapsaddle\, an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians\, resides in Qualla\, NC\, with her husband\, Evan\, and sons Ross and Charlie. She holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her debut novel\, Even As We Breathe\, was released by the University Press of Kentucky in 2020\, a finalist for the Weatherford Award and named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020. In 2021\, it received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Her first novel manuscript\, Going to Water\, is the winner of the Morning Star Award for Creative Writing from the Native American Literature Symposium (2012) and a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (2014). \nClapsaddle’s work has appeared in Yes! Magazine\, Lit Hub\, Salvation South\, South Writ Large\, Our State Magazine\, Bon Appétit\, Travel + Leisure Magazine\, and The Atlantic. After serving as executive director of the Cherokee Preservation Foundation\, Annette returned to teaching at Swain County High School for over a dozen years. She is the former co-editor of the Journal of Cherokee Studies and serves on the Board of Directors for the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and is the President of the Board of Trustees for the North Carolina Writers Network. Clapsaddle established Bird Words\, LLC in 2022 and works as an independent contractor and consultant. In 2023\, in partnership with Museum of the Cherokee Indian\, Clapsaddle launched Confluence: An Indigenous Writers’ Workshop Series that seeks to bring indigenous writers to the Qualla Boundary (Cherokee\, NC) to work with aspiring writers. \n  \n 
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/annette-saunooke-clapsaddle-looking-glass-rock-writers-conference-author-readings/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: J.R. McDowell Speaker • Rick Steves
DESCRIPTION:“Travel as a Political Act”\nTickets for this event are SOLD OUT.\nBest-selling guidebook author and public television host\, Rick Steves will be the Fall 2024 J.R. McDowell speaker.  The speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on challenging and thought-provoking topics.  Steves’ talk\, “Travel as a Political Act\,” will be held on Tuesday\, September 17 beginning at 7:30 pm at the Porter Center at Brevard College.  General admission tickets are $10 and will be available for purchase with cash or check at the Transylvania County Library beginning Tuesday\, August 20.  Tickets are available for students at no charge.  Highland Books will be on site with copies of his books for sale and signing following the program.  This program is made possible by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College. \nIn his talk\, Steves will explain how he believes there is more to travel than good food and fun in the sun. By venturing out of their comfort zones\, American travelers can gain an empathy for the other 96 percent of humanity and a better understanding of the interconnectedness of today’s world. In this provocative slideshow lecture\, Steves will draw from lessons learned while exploring Europe\, Central America\, Asia\, and the Middle East to illustrate how\, when Americans “travel as a political act\,” they come home with the greatest of all souvenirs: a broader perspective. \nBeyond his writing and activism\, Steves considers himself a teacher. He taught his first travel class at his college campus in the mid-1970s — and now\, more than 40 years later\, he still measures his success not by dollars earned\, but by trips impacted. \nWidely considered America’s leading authority on European travel\, Steves produces a best-selling series of guidebooks and is the author of the book\, “Travel as a Political Act.” He is dedicated to providing all Americans with access to travel information and has made extensive resources available for free on his website. \nAlong with his books\, Steves produces and hosts public television and radio shows that air across the nation\, and he is the founder and owner of Rick Steves’ Europe (RSE)\, a travel business with more than 100 full-time employees. RSE operates a successful small-group tour program which brings more than 30\,000 people to Europe annually. The company contributes annually to a portfolio of climate-smart nonprofits\, essentially paying a self-imposed carbon tax. \nSteves supports and works closely with many advocacy groups and organizations whose missions fit his own\, including Bread for the World. He is Chair of the Board of NORML and has been instrumental in the legalization of marijuana in states across the country. He has also provided $9 million in funding to build two neighborhood centers in his community and donated a 24-unit apartment building for homeless women and their children to his local YWCA. \nSteves spends about four months a year in Europe\, researching guidebooks\, fine-tuning his tour program\, filming his TV show and making new discoveries for travelers. To recharge\, he plays piano\, relaxes at his family cabin in the Cascade mountains and spends time with his son Andy and daughter Jackie. He lives and works in his hometown of Edmonds\, Washington\, where his office window overlooks his old junior high school. \nThis program is made possible by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College.
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/j-r-mcdowell-speaker-rick-steves/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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SUMMARY:PAM HOUSTON + REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL: Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference Public Readings
DESCRIPTION:Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference faculty\, Pam Houston and Rebecca Gayle Howell\, will give public readings of their work at the Porter Center on the Brevard College campus on Friday\, May 17 at 7:30 pm. \nPam Houston is the author of two collections of short stories “Cowboys Are My Weakness\,” which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine languages\, and “Waltzing the Cat\,” which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction; two novels\, “Contents May Have Shifted” and “Sight Hound\,” and three collections of autobiographical essays\, “Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country\,” from which Cheryl Strayed chose an essay for inclusion in the forthcoming “Best American Travel Writing” and another essay will be included in the forthcoming Pushcart Prize anthology\, “A Rough Guide to the Heart\,” and “A Little More About Me.” \nHer stories have also been selected for The O. Henry Awards and The Pushcart Prize. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award\, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction\, and The Evil Companions Literary Award. She is a regular contributor to O\, the Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times\, and many other periodicals.  She divides her time between UC Davis and southwestern Colorado at 9\,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. \n \nRebecca Gayle Howell is an award-winning poet\, translator\, and editor of place-based literature. Her books include two novels in verse: American Purgatory and Render / An Apocalypse\, as well as two translations: El interior de la ballena / The belly of the whale\, a Patagonian migration narrative by Claudia Prado and Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation\, Amal al-Jubouri’s Iraq War memoir-in-verse. Howell’s work has received critical acclaim from such outlets as The Los Angeles Times\, Poetry London (U.K.)\, The Courier-Journal\, Asymptote\, and both American Purgatory and Render were named Bestsellers of the Decade by Small Press Distribution. In 2023 Howell released What Things Cost: an anthology for the people\, co-edited by Howell & Ashley M. Jones. Called “the first major anthology of labor writing in a century\,” What Things Cost received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and was named a Best Book of the Year by outlets like Ms. Magazine\, Bitter Southerner\, Book Riot\, Southern Review of Books\, and Poets & Writers. \nSince 2014\, Howell has served as the poetry editor for The Oxford American\, where she curates and commissions a new profile of Southern poetics. In 2016 she and her fellow editors received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence\, and in 2023 they received the Whiting Award. A seventh-generation Kentuckian\, Rebecca Gayle Howell makes her home in Northwest Arkansas\, where she is a professor of poetry & translation for the University of Arkansas MFA program. \nThe Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference (LGRWC) is a unique creative experience for writers which aspires to foster reading\, writing\, creativity\, and a sense of place in Transylvania County.  The Transylvania County Library is a vital\, trusted source for discovery\, inspiration\, and innovation at the heart of a community that celebrates learning\, creativity\, and curiosity.  Brevard College provides an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic\, intellectual\, and social action. \nAs partners\, Brevard College and the Transylvania County Library Foundation seek to enrich the cultural and educational life of Transylvania County by nurturing and developing the LGRWC. Through intensive community-building creative workshops and public readings\, the LGRWC will offer Transylvania County residents the opportunity to interact with renowned authors\, engage in meaningful conversation about writing and place\, and strengthen ties across generations by reaching out to the diverse population of Transylvania County.
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/lgrwc-public-readings-1/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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SUMMARY:J.R. McDowell Speaker • Drew Lanham
DESCRIPTION:Birder\, naturalist\, and hunter-conservationist\, Drew Lanham\, will be the Spring 2024 J.R. McDowell speaker.  Free\, general admission tickets will be available at the Transylvania County Library beginning Monday\, March 11. \nSponsored by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College\, the speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on challenging and thought-provoking topics.  His talk\, “Coloring the Conservation Conversation\,” will be held on Thursday\, April 11th beginning at 7:00 pm at the Porter Center at Brevard College.    Highland Books will be on site with copies of his most recent books for sale and signing following the program. \nIn his talk\, Lanham will discuss what it means to embrace the full breadth of his African-American heritage and his deep kinship to nature and adoration of birds. The convergence of ornithologist\, college professor\, poet\, author and conservation activist blend to bring an awareness of the natural world and a moral responsibility for it forward in new ways. Candid by nature — and because of it — Lanham will examine how conservation must be a rigorous science and evocative art\, inviting diversity and race to play active roles in celebrating our natural world. \nA native of Edgefield\, South Carolina\, Lanham is the author of “The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature\,” which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. For centuries\, Edgefield County\, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way to somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In “The Home Place\,” readers meet these extraordinary people\, including Drew himself\, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight\, however\, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird\, the oddity”—to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by forced labor\, and then to be a black man in a profoundly white field. \nLanham has published essays and poetry in publications including “Orion\,” “Audubon\,” “Flycatcher\,” and “Wilderness\,” and in several anthologies\, including “The Colors of Nature\,” “State of the Heart\,” “Bartram’s Living Legacy\,” and “Carolina Writers at Home.” \nAn Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University\, he and his family live in the Upstate of South Carolina\, a soaring hawk’s downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall. \nThis program is made possible by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College.
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/j-r-mcdowell-speaker-drew-lanham/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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SUMMARY:J. R. McDowell Speaker • Annette Gordon-Reed
DESCRIPTION:American Historian and Law Professor Annette Gordon-Reed will be the Fall 2023 J. R. McDowell speaker.  Free general admission tickets will be available at the Library beginning Monday\, August 21st. \nSponsored by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College\, the speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on challenging and thought-provoking topics. Her talk\, “Approaching 2026: The Declaration of Independence and its Legacies\,” will be held on Thursday\, September 14 beginning at 7:30 pm at the Porter Center at Brevard College. Doors will open at 7:00 pm.  Gordon-Reed will discuss the role the Declaration has played in promoting the idea of progress in the United States as it approaches its 250th anniversary.  Highland Books will be on site with copies of her most recent books for sale and signing following the program. \nAnnette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. She won sixteen book prizes\, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008\, for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family\,” a historical epic tracing the story of the Hemings family\, whose close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently.  In the book\, Gordon-Reed traces the family’s origins from Virginia in the 1700s to their dispersal after Jefferson’s death in 1826. \nIn addition to articles and reviews\, her other works include “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy\,” “Vernon Can Read! A Memoir\,” a collaboration with Vernon Jordan\, “Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History\,” a volume of essays that she edited\, “Andrew Johnson” and\, with Peter S. Onuf\, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.” Her most recent book\, “On Juneteenth\,” combines personal anecdotes with facts gleaned from the annals of American history showing how\, from the earliest presence of Black people in Texas to the end of legalized slavery in the state\, African Americans played an integral role in the Texas story. \nGordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford from 2014-2015. Between 2010 and 2015\, she was the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is the current President of the Ames Foundation. A selected list of her honors includes a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library\, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Award\, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize\, the George Washington Book Prize\, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Gordon-Reed served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 2010 to 2018. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and was a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2019\, she was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. \nThe program is made possible by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College.
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/j-r-mcdowell-speaker-annette-gordon-reed/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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SUMMARY:CAMILLE DUNGY + JAMIE FORD: Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference Public Readings
DESCRIPTION:Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference faculty\, Camille Dungy and Jaime Ford\, will give public readings of their work at the Porter Center on the Brevard College campus on May 19 at 7:30 pm.\nCamille T. Dungy’s debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Trophic Cascade\, winner of the Colorado Book Award. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. \nDungy’s other poetry collections are Smith Blue\, finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award\, Suck on the Marrow\, winner of the American Book Award\, and What to Eat\, What to Drink\, What to Leave for Poison\, finalist for PEN the Center USA Literary Award for Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Best American Travel Writing\, 100 Best African American Poems\, and nearly 30 other anthologies\, plus dozens of print and online venues including Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, VQR\, Guernica\, and Poets.org. \nOther honors include two Northern California Book Awards\, a California Book Award silver medal\, two NAACP Image Award nominations\, two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations\, fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation\, and fellowships from the NEA in both poetry and prose. Dungy is currently a Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University. She lives in Fort Collins\, CO with her husband and child. \n  \nJamie Ford is a Northwest author most widely known for his bestselling Seattle-based novels. His debut\, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet\, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list\, won the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award\, the Pacific Northwest Book Award\, and the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction. Hotel was named the #1 Book Club pick in 2010 by the American Bookseller Association and is now read widely in schools all across the country. This multi-cultural tale was adapted by Book-It Repertory Theatre\, and has recently been optioned for a stage musical\, and also for film\, with George Takei serving as Executive Producer. \nJamie’s second book\, Songs of Willow Frost\, was also a national bestseller. His third novel set in Seattle\, Love and Other Consolations Prizes\, was published in 2017 and Library Journal named it one of the Best Historical Fiction Novels of 2017. An award-winning short-story writer\, his work has been published in multiple anthologies\, from Asian-themed steampunk set in Seattle in the Apocalypse Triptych\, to stories exploring the universe of masked marvels and caped crusaders from an Asian American perspective in Secret Identities: The First Asian American Superhero Anthology\, and Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology. His essays on race\, identity\, love\, heroes\, and complex families have been published nationwide and his work has been translated into 35 languages. He says he’s holding out for Klingon\, because that’s when you know you’ve made it. Jamie’s most recent novel\, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy\, will be published in August 2022. \n  \n\n  \nThe Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference (LGRWC) is a unique creative experience for writers which aspires to foster reading\, writing\, creativity\, and a sense of place in Transylvania County.  The Transylvania County Library is a vital\, trusted source for discovery\, inspiration\, and innovation at the heart of a community that celebrates learning\, creativity\, and curiosity.  Brevard College provides an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic\, intellectual\, and social action. \nAs partners\, Brevard College and the Transylvania County Library Foundation seek to enrich the cultural and educational life of Transylvania County by nurturing and developing the LGRWC. Through intensive community-building creative workshops and public readings\, the LGRWC will offer Transylvania County residents the opportunity to interact with renowned authors\, engage in meaningful conversation about writing and place\, and strengthen ties across generations by reaching out to the diverse population of Transylvania County. \n 
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/lgrwcfri2023/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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SUMMARY:J.R. McDowell Speaker: Kelly Corrigan
DESCRIPTION:Kelly Corrigan\, host of the PBS series Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan\, will be the Transylvania County Library Foundation’s Spring 2023 J.R. McDowell Speaker. The speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on challenging and thought-provoking topics. \nHer talk\, Glitter & Glue: The Family Ties That Bind Us Together\, will be held on Thursday\, April 6th beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Porter Center at Brevard College. Free general admission tickets will be available at the Transylvania County Library beginning Tuesday\, March 14th. Highland Books will be on site with copies of her most recent books for sale and signing following the program. The program is made possible by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College. \nKelly Corrigan’s mother often describes their family as: “Your father’s the glitter\, but I’m the glue.” In her presentation based on her memoir Glitter and Glue\, Corrigan examines why we choose the people we admire and how that changes over time. She looks at the bond between mothers and daughters –sometimes nourishing\, sometimes exasperating\, occasionally divine but always loving. In her heartfelt presentation\, she will strip away the complexities and emotionally connect who we are\, men and women alike\, with who our parents are and how this history continues to shape us. Acknowledged as an exceptional storyteller\, Corrigan takes audiences on a moving and humorous journey on finding role models through personal growth. \nIn addition to hosting PBS’ Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan\, Corrigan also hosts her own podcast Kelly Corrigan Wonders\, which she describes as a “place for people who like to laugh while they think.” On the podcast\, she tackles a different question every month in a series of weekly conversations with some of her favorite thinkers. In addition to her TV series and podcast\, Corrigan is the author of four New York Times bestselling memoirs\, including Tell Me More\, Glitter and Glue\, The Middle Place and Lift. In the spring of 2021\, she published her first children’s book\, Hello World\, and is in the process of writing another one. She is also an accomplished columnist\, appearing in O Magazine\, Glamour and Good Housekeeping\, and a dedicated volunteer and activist for healthcare and its specific impact on low-income children. \nConstantly inspirational words elevate the experiences of everyday life and uplift our darkest moments with humor\, humanity and unforgettable eloquence. And Corrigan has had plenty of adversity of her own. In 2004\, she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. Her children were both still in diapers at the time. Three months after her diagnosis\, she learned her father had late-stage cancer. From undergoing her own treatments\, while ensuring that her father received proper care\, Corrigan learned how anyone can make a difference and motivates audiences to do the same. \nThe Library Foundation enhances the Library and the community through five additional areas of support including funds for the Rowell Bosse North Carolina Room collection; underwriting special events for children; exploring new technologies in library services; providing continuing education and career enhancement for library staff with the Elizabeth R. Kapp Tyson Professional Development Fund; and memorial gifts and collections. \nThe Transylvania County Library is a hub for learning\, gathering and growing\, together. Discover a welcoming space\, friendly staff\, engaging programs\, and the vital resources needed to explore every corner of the imagination\, whether visiting the library in person\, greeting the bookmobile while “on the road\,” or accessing online resources from home. To learn more\, visit library.transylvaniacounty.org or call 884-3151.
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/kelly-corrigan/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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SUMMARY:J.R. McDowell Speaker - Admiral James Stavridis
DESCRIPTION:Admiral James Stavridis\, bestselling author and former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO\, will be the Transylvania County Library Foundation’s Fall 2022 J.R. McDowell Speaker. The annual speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on challenging and thought-provoking topics. His timely talk\, Global Geopolitics and the Ukraine War\, will be held on Tuesday\, September 27th beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Porter Center at Brevard College. General admission tickets are $10 and are available for purchase at the Transylvania County Library\, cash or check only.  Tickets are available at no charge for students. Highland Books will be on site with copies of his most recent books for sale and signing following the program. \nA Florida native\, Jim Stavridis attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis\, and spent 37 years in the Navy\, rising to the rank of 4-star Admiral. Among his many commands were four years as the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO\, where he oversaw operations in Afghanistan\, Libya\, Syria\, the Balkans\, and counter piracy off the coast of Africa. He also commanded US Southern Command in Miami\, charged with military operations throughout Latin America for nearly three years. He was the longest serving Combatant Commander in recent US history. Following his military career\, he served for five years as the 12th Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. \nOver the course of his career in the Navy\, he served as senior military assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense. He led the Navy’s premier operational think tank for innovation\, Deep Blue\, immediately after the 9/11 attacks. Admiral Stavridis was promoted directly from 1-star rank to 3-star rank in 2004. \nHe won the Battenberg Cup for commanding the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet and the Navy League John Paul Jones Award for Inspirational leadership\, along with more than 50 US and international medals and decorations\, including 28 from foreign nations. He also commanded a Destroyer Squadron and a Carrier Strike Group\, both in combat. \nIn 2016\, he was vetted for Vice President by Secretary Hillary Clinton\, and subsequently invited to Trump Tower to discuss a cabinet position with President Donald Trump. \nAdmiral Stavridis has published twelve books on leadership\, character\, risk\, the oceans\, maritime affairs\, and Latin America\, as well as hundreds of articles in leading journals. His TED talk on 21st century security in 2012 has close to one million views. He tweeted the end of combat operations in the Libyan NATO intervention. His two most recent books are “To Risk It All: Nine Crises and The Crucible Of Decision\,” in 2022\, and the novel “2034: A Novel of the Next World War” in 2021\, which was a New York Times bestseller. \nDuring his talk on September 27\, Admiral Stavridis\, drawing on his time as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO\, will describe the roots of the war in Ukraine\, beginning with a profile of Vladimir Putin based on personal experience. He will sketch out the state of the conflict\, the response of the Ukrainian resistance\, the role of NATO\, the chances of nuclear or cyber attacks\, and ultimately how larger geopolitical forces will come to bear in this tragic and very dangerous situation. Calling on his current role as Vice Chair\, Global Affairs of The Carlyle Group\, one of the largest private equity firms in the world\, he will assess the impact on the global economy\, the efficacy of sanctions\, and the role of China in the conflict. Admiral Stavridis will conclude with some additional measures the west must take to maintain democracy as a viable force in this turbulent 21st century\, as well as a look at potential outcomes stemming from the war in Ukraine. \nThe Library Foundation enhances the Library and the community through five additional areas of support including funds for the Rowell Bosse North Carolina Room collection; underwriting special events for children; exploring new technologies in library services; providing continuing education and career enhancement for library staff with the Elizabeth R. Kapp Tyson Professional Development Fund; and memorial gifts and collections. \nThe Transylvania County Library is a hub for learning\, gathering and growing\, together. Discover a welcoming space\, friendly staff\, engaging programs\, and the vital resources needed to explore every corner of the imagination\, whether visiting the library in person\, greeting the bookmobile while “on the road\,” or accessing online resources from home. To learn more\, visit library.transylvaniacounty.org or call 884-3151. \n 
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/j-r-mcdowell-speaker-admiral-james-stavridis/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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SUMMARY:2019 J. R. McDowell Speaker - Judy Woodruff    SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:Judy Woodruff\, Anchor and Managing Editor\, PBS NewsHour will be the 2019 J.R. McDowell Speaker on Thursday\, September 19th. Her presentation “Inside Politics” will begin at 6:30 pm at the Porter Center for Performing Arts at Brevard College.  The event is sponsored by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College. The program doors to the Porter Center will open at 6:00 pm.  Tickets are sold out for this event. \n 
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/2019-j-r-mcdowell-speaker-judy-woodruff-sold-out/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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SUMMARY:Astronaut Dr. Mike Massimino
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mike Massimino\, a former NASA astronaut\, is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University\, and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea\, Air\, and Space Museum. His Thursday\, September 20th presentation\, “Views from Space: Leadership\, Teamwork\, Determination” will be the fall event for the 2018 J.R. McDowell Speaker Series sponsored by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College. The program will begin at 6:30 pm and doors to the Porter Center will open at 6:00 pm.  General admission tickets are $10 and will be available for sale beginning Tuesday\, September 4th at the Library (CASH OR CHECK ONLY).\nAfter working as an engineer at IBM\, NASA Headquarters and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace\, along with academic appointments at both Rice University and the Georgia Institute of Technology\, Massimino was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1996. A veteran of two space flights\, the fourth and fifth Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions in 2002 and 2009\, Massimino has many accomplishments including a team record for the number of hours spacewalking in a single space shuttle mission and the first person to tweet from Space with over 1.3 million twitter followers currently. He has also received a number of awards including two NASA “Space Flight Medals”\, the NASA “Distinguished Service Medal”\, and the American Astronautical Society’s 2009 “Flight Achievement Award”. He is also the holder of two patents and author of several engineering research papers. \nBack at his alma mater\, Columbia University\, Massimino is teaching an undergraduate course\, Introduction to Human Space Flight\, which harnesses his years of academic and professional experience. He is also working with The Art of Engineering\, a course in which all first-year engineers attend design lectures and work on engineering projects with socially responsible themes. When not in academia or at NASA\, Massimino has made several television appearances including a recurring role as himself on the CBS hit comedy\, The Big Bang Theory. In addition\, he frequently appears in specials on Discovery\, History\, PBS and National Geographic Channels\, along with national and cable news. He has also been a guest on many of the late night talk shows including The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. \nMassimino is author of Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (October 2016)\, where he tells the inspirational\, unlikely\, and often humorous story of his 18 years at NASA\, including his four spacewalks to service the Hubble Space Telescope and his public relations work in telling the story of space. Massimino’s account gives readers a first-hand look at the incredible legacy of the Hubble and the modern history of space travel in the final years of the shuttle era\, including the tragedy of the 2003 Columbia disaster. It also offers an insider’s take on the storied past and exciting future of manned space flight.
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/astronaut-dr-mike-massimino/
LOCATION:Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts\, Brevard College\, 1 Brevard College Dr.\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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