Senior Book Club to host trek to NC Literary Festival

The Asheboro Public Library’s Senior Book Club will take a day trip to the North Carolina Literary Festival at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday, September 12, 2009.

The trip is free and open to the public, but registration is required by Friday, September 4. The group will leave the Asheboro library at 8 a.m. and return by approximately 5:30 p.m.

For more information, or to register, please call Amy Keith Barney or Jessica Gibson at 318-6803.

The festival, which runs September 10-13, will feature 102 authors reading and signing their work, as well as exhibits, performances, sales and children’s activities. The theme is “A Celebration of Reading and Writing.”

Authors scheduled to appear at the festival on Saturday, September 12, include John Hart, P.T. Deutermann, Lee Smith, Michael Malone, Jill McCorkle, Paul Cuadros, R.L. Stine, Rick Bragg and more.

The libraries of UNC and Duke University, with additional support from North Carolina Central University, organize and sponsor the free festival.

The Senior Book Club meets on the second Thursday of each month at the Senior Adults Center in Asheboro. The September 10 meeting will take place as usual, with a discussion of John Grisham’s The Appeal.