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    Name: Friends of the Mountains Branch Library Books and Bites Series 2015
    Date: September 8, 2015
    Time: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Event Description:
     Mary Ann Claud, author of The Dancin’ Man, will be speaking on Tues., Sept. 8 at 11:30am at the Lake Lure Inn.  The cost of $25. includes lunch.  Please call the Mountains Branch Library (828-287-6392) for reservations.  You may pay cash or make a check out to “Friends of the Mountains Branch Library” and send it to 150 Bills Creek Rd., Lake Lure, NC  28746.
         Mary Ann was raised in Lancaster, SC.  She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in music from Converse College and has been a published writer for thirty years.  She has taught adult ed courses in creative writing and Southern literature and wrote a weekly front page column for the Hendersonville (NC) Times News.  She and her husband currently live in Tryon.
         The Dancin’ Man is a family saga with its drama playing out against the backdrop of social and economic change in the American South from the 1950s until the 1980s.  It is a story of a thoughtful, ambitious young man who marries into a fabled Southern textile family and becomes one of them….almost.
    Location:
    The 1927 Lake Lure Inn & Spa
    2771 Memorial Hwy
    Lake Lure, NC 28746
    Date/Time Information:
    Tuesday, September 8, 2015
    11:30am - 2:00pm
    Contact Information:
    Mountains Branch Library 828-287-6392
    Fees/Admission:
    $25 per person, includes buffet meal with dessert, non-alcoholic beverages, and meet the author/commentary on the authors works. (cash bar available)
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