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August 5
First
Friday Opening Exhibit
Location: Saxapahaw Artist
Gallery
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Saxapahaw Artist Gallery will feature the Lois McAlpine
exhibit of “Baskets’n Pine” and Kathleen Citrolo Gwinnett’s
exhibit of paintings, entitled “Remembering
Italy,” during the month of August. Refreshments will
be served and music by the Mebanaires.
August 6
Historical
Farm Open House
Location: Cedarock Park
Historical Farm
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
The farm will be open for public viewing along with
demonstrations of farm life during the late 19th century.
Call 570-6759 for more information.
August
6
Book Signing with Bruce A. Sorrie
Location: Barnes &
Noble Booksellers
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Join botanist Bruce A. Sorrie as he introduces his new
book, Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills
Region. Featuring 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs
and vines, this user-friendly field guide includes more
than 540 color photos for easy identification.
August 7 and 21
Sunday
Afternoon NOOK Workshops
Location: Barnes &
Noble Booksellers
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Learn about NOOK Color, the Reader’s Tablet that includes
popular apps, e-mail, web and video with Adobe Flash
Player! Check out our newest NOOK, the Simple Touch
Reader.
August
8
Lunch
Bunch Book Club
Location: May Memorial
Library
Time: Noon
This month’s selection Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth
Hoffman. Steel Magnolias meets The Help in the Southern
debut novel sparkling with humor, heart and feminine
wisdom. It is a novel that explores the indomitable
strengths of female friendship and gives us the story of a
young girl who loses one mother and finds many others. For
more information or to sign up for the book club, please
call 229-3588.
August 9
Graham
Book Club
Location: Graham Public
Library
Time: 7:00 p.m.
This month’s selection is South of Broad by Pat Conroy.
Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable,
loving father who teaches science at the local high school.
His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a
well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo’s older brother commits
suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with
the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes
part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that
includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with
an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father;
hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead;
socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge
X; and an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple
across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the
dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. For more information
call, 336-570-6730.
August 9
Evening
Book Club
Location: Mebane Public
Library
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Join other readers to discuss the month’s selection The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Her
name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa.
She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells—taken
without her knowledge—became one of the most important
tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown
in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been
dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for
developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer
and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization,
cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by
the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked
grave. Her family did not learn of her “immortality” until
more than twenty years after her death, when scientists
began using her husband and children in research without
informed consent. The story of the Lacks family is
inextricably connected to the dark history of
experimentation on African Americans, the birth of
bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control
the stuff we are made of. Newcomers welcome! For more
information call 919-563-6431.
August 12
Free
Movie Friday
Location: Graham Public
Library
Time: 4:00 p.m.
This week’s movie is Rango. A kooky pet chameleon,
accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of
Dirt, a lawless outpost populated by the desert’s most wily
and whimsical creatures. Welcomed as the last hope the town
has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play
his new role to the hilt, until he starts to become the
hero he once only pretended to be. Special features:
commentary, deleted scenes with an all-new ending, a
featurette, and previews. Rated PG Call 336-570-6730 for
more information.
August 13
Family
Kickball Day
Location: Pleasant Grove
Community Center
Time: 9:00 a.m. - noon
Come join us for a fun and friendly game of Kickball!
Free to all participants! Registration is
required. Call 336-270-5124
August 17
Travel to Novel
Destinations with Collage
Location: Graham Public Library
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Learn to collage with India Cain. For more information call
336-570-6730
August 17 and 31
Wednesday
Night NOOK Workshops
Location: Barnes &
Noble Booksellers
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Learn about NOOK Color, the Reader’s Tablet that includes
popular apps, e-mail, web and video with Adobe Flash
Player! Check out our newest NOOK, the Simple Touch Reader.
August 20
Forgotten
Homestead Hike
Location: Cedarock Park
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Come explore a section of the park that is not known by
many on this guided hike. You will be lead off of the
beaten path to the site where the Spoon Farm once
stood. Remnants of the site remain but are hidden from
view! Call 336-570-6759 for more information.
August 23
Mebane Knitters’ Club
Location: Mebane Public
Library conference room
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Knitters of all skill levels are welcome. Bring whatever
project you are working on or help out with one of our
special projects. For more information call
919-563-6431.
August 27
Preserving
Our Hertitage Festival
Location: Cedarock Park
Historical Farm
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The annual Historic Farm Festival features demonstrations
of late 19th century skills that were typical on a farm of
that era. Antique tractors and “hit and miss” engines will
be on display. Concessions will be available. For more
information call 570-6759.
August 27
Storytime
and Book Signing with Burlington Author, Anne Aldridge Webb
Location: Barnes &
Noble Booksellers
Time:11:00 a.m.
Calling Mountaineer and Tar Heel fans of all
ages! Join local author Anne Aldridge Webb as she
reads her two children’s books called Appalachian State A
to Z and Carolina A to Z. Both are fun reads for kids
and wonderful keepsakes for college fans!
