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| Wall Street Journal book reviewer Tom
Nolan interviews international bestseller John Grisham to a packed Culbreth Theatre
at the University of Virginia during the ninth annual Virginia Festival of the
Book. |
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| Poet Nikki Giovanni and novelist William Hoffman
greeted authors and the VABook! audience during the annual Author’s Reception
at Carr’s Hill. |
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| Lee Smith delightfully explored the line between
fact and fiction with the luncheon audience. |
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| Real-life crew member of the “Huckleberry
Finn” rafting trip that launched The Last Girls, Vickie Derby Jordan
joined Lee Smith now as then to recapture the joy of that voyage. |
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| VABook! 2003 began on the same day as the first
American attacks on Iraq. The Poet Laureate of Virginia, George Garrett, opened
the Festival with words of encouragement about the mission of reading and the
humanities at such a critical time. |
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| History scholars Holly Shulman and Julian Bond
discuss an important new project to chronicle “Wednesdays in Mississippi,”
a little told story of interracial cooperation during the Civil Rights movement. |
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| Motheread and Fatheread of Virginia produces StoryFest
every year to feature storytellers, children’s authors and book-related
activities for youth. Here, a puppet opens the world of storybooks to children
at the Old Michie Theater. |
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| StoryFest sponsored by Motheread and Fatheread
of the VFH featured storyteller Barbara Lawson who led songs and yodeling for
youth on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. |
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| A truly unique program called “Shop Talk”
places authors in a beauty salon. Authors Tracy Price-Thompson and Tayari Jones
talk about their novels. |
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| A busy Saturday at the Omni Hotel includes the
annual Vendor’s Fair, Publishing Day and the Crime Wave mystery writing
panels. |
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| The feature of the book A Strong Right Arm,
Mamie “Peanut” Johnson participated in a VABook! panel about her time
in the Negro Leagues and was on hand to throw out the first pitch at the UVa Cavaliers
baseball game. |
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| Local seniors scour the Festival final program
as they gear up for a week of readings and discussions. It’s a familiar
scene to the avid-reading VABook! audience, which numbered 17,113 this year. |
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| Author Keith A. Caver signs copies of Leading
in Black and White for an audience assembled for a panel on colorblindness
in the American workplace, one of the many panel discussions during VABook! 2003. |
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| Winners in the Virginia Center for the Book Letters
About Literature statewide writing competition. Pictured are (left to right) Program
Chair JoAnn Hofheimer, Brittany Dick from Charlottesville, Matthew Rowe from Richmond,
and Jennifer Ohashi from Winchester. |
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| Earl Hamner, the novelist who created the popular
television series, “The Waltons,” was on hand to sign copies of Goodnight,
John-Boy. |
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| The Voices of Cale, a local elementary school choir,
was on hand to greet regional favorite, author Earl Hamner at a Culbreth Theatre
reading from his work. |
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