Join Spring Street Cafe, City Lights Bookstore and Heinzelmannchen Brewery
to celebrate
The reopening of Spring Street, new ownership of City Lights, and the Cookbook Release of Heinzelmannchen Brewery
Thursday, Feb 25 6 - 9 p.m.

Beginning at 6 enjoy great food from Spring Street, made with Heinzelmannchen Beer

6:30 - Cookbook Release Celebration at City Lights Regional Room
Meet Heinzelmannchen Brewery owners & authors of Your Gnometown Cookbook
Until 9 Stroll thru City Lights for some more great books - when you purchase "Your Gnometown Cookbook from City Lights" (or bring your already purchased copy) receive a discount on dinner from Spring Street

Join conservationist and novelist George Ivey, of Canton, for a reading from his new book, Up River, on Friday, March 5th at 7:00 p.m. The novel tells the story of Peter Bailey, who is trying to save and restore a river in the southern Appalachians. Fred Chappell's description is superb:  

"Up River shows what it is like to go against the stream in a good cause. George Ivey gives us a fascinating story, filled with folks friendly and threatening, cheery and cranky. The subjects this fast-paced novel addresses are as important as they are plentiful. Everyone who has ever been a stranger in a new place will sympathize with Peter Bailey; everyone who has tried to beat long odds will cheer for him. And anyone who reads Up River will learn how perilous is the balance of nature—and human nature. Entrancing.”

— Fred Chappell, poet and author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are

Join us on Saturday afternoon, March 6th at 1:00 p.m. for a program with Jeanne Webster, of Macon County's Otto community, who will read from her new novel, Strays. The even is a fundraiser for ARF, and 10% of the book's sales at the reading will be donated by City Lights to ARF. Donations will also be accepted. 

"In Strays, Webster sagely guides us on a revealing journey about the importance of animals and the environment to our whole existence - physical and spiritural. The scruffy canine Max is sure to win hearts of readers of this inspiring story," says Karen L. Allanach, who works with the Humane Society of the United States as  Associate Director of their program, Animals and Religion.

Webster will read selections from the book and discuss how she came to write it. An autographing will follow her remarks. For more information, please call City Lights at 586-9499.