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Western Carolinian Volume 60 Number 06

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  • 12 Western Carolinian Septemeber 22, 1994 Mountain Heritage Day // rr Puppet Theatre Performs Bunraku Style It will be a double celebration Saturday Sept. 24, when Western Carolina University's Mountain Heritage Day and the Appalachian Puppet Theatre mark two decades of preserving North Carolina mountain culture. The Appalachian Puppet Theatre, a husband-and-wife team of puppeteers based in Black Mountain, will give three performances during the 20th anniversary edition of Mountain Heritage Day, WCU's annual celebration of the Southern Appalachian spirit. They will perform their acclaimed "Appalachian Medley" show at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. in Room 104 of WCU's Belk Building. The performances — and, in fact, all of Mountain Heritage Day's music and dance, arts and crafts, and fun and games — are open to the public free of charge. "Appalachian Medley" is performed with realistic, life-sized puppets using the dramatic, ancient Japanese style of puppetry known as Bunraku. The performance tells the story of Uncle Joe, an old-time mountain man who is listening to an evening radio broadcast one night in the late 1930s. The radio personalities and commercials come to life through the magic of puppetry. Clyde and Adrienne Hollifield have been performing together as the Appalachian Puppet Theatre smce 1974, consistently winning rave reviews from audience members from age 2 to 92. Mountam Heritage Day represents one of the last opportunities for area audiences to see the Appalachian Puppet Theatre; the Hollifields are hanging up their puppets later this year, said Doug Davis, Mountain Heritage Day director. The Appalachian Puppet Theatre is supported in part by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. J 6 —Courtesy Office of Public Information The Appalachian Puppet Theatre will give 3 performances during the 20th anniversary edition of Mountain Heritage Day. All performances are open to the public free of charge in the Belk building, room 104." j Appalachian Authors Gather To Read Works Writers from across the Southern Appalachians will meet at Western Carolina University on Friday, Sept. 23, to raise money for the university's Hunter Library. "An Evening with Appalachian Authors" will be held from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Grand Room of Hinds University Center on the WCU campus. The event is in conjunction with Mountain Heritage Day, the annual celebration of the mountain spirit that will be held the following day. For $5, those attending will get to meet with the authors and hear three of them read from their works. Some of the visiting author's include: - Rick Boyer, WCU writer- in-residence and assistant professor of English, is the author of the "Doc Adams" suspense novels and co-author of the "Places Rated" non- fiction series. He is working on a book about a fictional wildlife officer who works in Western North Carolina. - Kathryn Stripling Byer is WCU's poet-in-residence and director of its Visiting Writer Series. She is the author of "The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest" and "Wildwood Flower," winner of the 1993 Thomas Wolfe Literary Award for best book by an Appalachian author. - Thomas Rain Crowe of Tuckasegee, "is what happens when Kabir, Rumi and Sydney Lanier meet the Dharma Bums," according to one reviewer. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications. - Doris Davenport of Cornelia, Ga., is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which, "Soquee Street," is based on the Appalachian, African-American communities where she grew up. She has also written many published essays, articles and book reviews. - Elizabeth Evans, a former head of the department of English at the Georgia Institute of Technology, now lives in Webster. She has written numerous works of literary analysis, including "Eudora Welty," "Thomas Wolfe" and "May Sarton Revisited." - David Brendan Hopes, professor of literature and humanities at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, is the author of two books of poetry, "The Glacier's Daughter" and "The Penitent Magdalene," and two books of essays, "A Sense of the Morning" and "A Childhood on Milky Way." - Marijo Moore of Asheville is a poet and short story writer. Her most recent work, "Returning to the Homeland — Cherokee Poetry and Short Stories," will be released this month. She is Cherokee and is currently researching Cherokee myths for a series of children's stories and gathering information for a non-fiction bpok about eastern Cherokee women. - Bettie M. Sellers is a poet and professor of English at Young Harris College in Young Harris, Ga. She has written five books of poems — "Westward from Bald Mountain," "Spring Onions and Cornbread," "Liza's Monday," "Wild Ginger" and "Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk." - Bob Terrell of Asheville has been a writer for the Asheville Citizen-Times since 1949 and has authored 30 books, most of which deal with humor, travel and biography. He has written four Western novels and still composes a weekly column for the Asheville paper. - Ila Yount of Waynesville, a teacher, writer and storyteller, is the author of two works of fiction, "Patchwork" and "Sunshine and Shadows." She retired after 22 years as director of the preschool program at the First United Methodist Church of Waynesville, and now teaches creative writing at Haywood Community Colleg • The first hour of "An Evening With Appalachian Authors" will consist of readings by Marijo Moore, Dons Davenport and David Brend^ Hopes. It will be followed by ^ meet-the-author session tog those attending an opporW" to buy books and get them autographed. The last 20 minutes of the evening wiu presentation by Fran Freudenberger, a resident Hendersonville who recite* poetry to music. , . Tickets are being sold" the City Lights bookstore^ Sylva, Time Capsueboo^ in Dillsboro, Sloan's booKS >nWaynesville,TheBookan Specialty Shop in Cashier , Malaprop's bookstore in Asheville, and at Hunter Library. Tickets will also available at the door.
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