Check out this great video our friend Sharon Maple made of the signing with Dorthea Benton Frank the other night! It was such a great night, Dorthea was hilarious and everyone who came out was just wonderful! A great big thank you to everyone!
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Dorthea Benton Frank & Wine–There’s No Better Combination!
Pelican Bookstore and Silver Coast Winery invite you to meet Dorthea Benton Frank on Monday evening June 10th at 6:00pm for a reading and signing held at Silver Coast Winery. Dorthea will read from her latest book The Last Original Wife. You won’t want to miss her, she is a wonderful and very funny speaker! We will have copies available to purchase at the event, as well as some of her other books. There will be a $7.50 cover charge for the event, the cost of which does include one glass of wine.
We ask that you arrive shortly before 6pm, as the reading will take place first. We can’t wait to see you all there, and we just know this book will be great! Silver Coast Winery is located at 6680 Barbeque Rd NW Ocean Isle Beach, NC. If you have any questions about the event please feel free to call Pelican Bookstore at 910-579-8770.
A Few Photos from the Strawberry & Wine Festival
The Strawberry and Wine Festival this past weekend was such a great success and we thank all of you that came out! We had a wonderful time. And a big thanks to Marybeth Whalen, Jacqueline DeGroot, Silver Coast Winery and The Old Bridge Preservation Society who all made this great event! We can’t wait to do it again next year!
Festival Time
Last weekend, one of our favorite local authors Jacqueline DeGroot was at River Fest in Downtown Wilmington, NC. She was promoting her books including Sunset Beach: A History. She sent us a couple pictures and from the looks of things, it seems that she met a few pirates there.
It’s fall in the coastal area, and that means it’s festival time. This coming weekend, October 15th and 16th, is the 31st Annual North Carolina Oyster Festival at Ocean Isle Beach. There will be music (featured musical artist Josh Kelly) , food, games, vendors, local authors, and most importantly all kinds of seafood and an oyster stew cook off!
And finally, the last full weekend in October, the Holden Beach Merchants Association hosts the very popular NC Festival by the Sea. This 2 day events is kicked off with a parade down the Holden Beach causeway. There will be arts, crafts, vendors and plenty of onsite foods, as well as some great musical acts.
It’s a great time to be on the North Carolina Coast!
The Kindred Spirit Lives Again!
Along with Hurricane Irene came some inevitable damage to our area. None too major, but there is always some clean up after a big storm like that. Local author and great friend of the Pelican Bookstore, Jacqueline DeGroot was the first to check on one of our beloved Sunset Beach landmarks that didn’t fare the storm quite as well.
On Saturday after the hurricane she walked down to the Kindred Spirit Mailbox, located on Bird Island—a bit of a walk since there is no beach access anywhere near it. She took pictures and reported back on the damage she saw. The erosion of the dune in front of the box had left a meager amount of sand leaving it in a very precarious position and the bench had fallen backward and had become uprooted.
Jack, as she prefers to be called, was a bit disheartened; after all one of her novels The Secret of The Kindred Spirit centers around the famed mailbox. She used her connections at the Brunswick Beacon and through Facebook she assembled a team to head to the mailbox armed with shovels to fix the treasure of Sunset.
The repairs were a success and it looks as good as new, even though it’s a few feet back from where it was originally located. We would like to thank Jack for all her hard work organizing and getting the word out about our distressed mailbox. And a big thanks goes out to all those who volunteered their time and effort and took the long walk to the mailbox—Laura Lewis, Sandy and Kathy Lonsinger, Sharon Maple, Frank Nesmith, Sandy Raymond, Carol and Pete Scott, and Patrick Szymanski.
For those of you who don’t know the story of the Kindred Spirit Mailbox go to http://kindredspiritmailbox.wordpress.com/ to find out more information.
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