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Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:30 pm
David Watkins, of Cullowhee, will offer a free personal budgeting workshop on Saturday afternoon, October 16th at 1:00 p.m. The program is based on his book, Little is Much: Leart How to Live Witin Your Means--Seven Steps to Financial Freedom. Watkins learned the basics of saving when he was a little boy. In adulthood, he has been able to budget for his own family and help others also live within their means. He finds inspiration and advice in the Bible, and he says of his book, "Being able to put this financial plan into words the way God has put it into my heart has been a blessing." The workshop is free and open to the public. Copies of Little is Much will be available for sale ($12) and can be autographed by the author. For more information, please call City Lights at 586-9499.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Poet John Thomas York will be at the store on Saturday, October 16th at 7:00 p.m. to read from his new collection, entitled Naming the Constellations, which was published by Sylva's Spring Street Editions, in collaboration with Ash Creek Press in Portland, Oregon. The event will also serve as a celebration of Spring Street Editions, which has published several works of poetry by local and natinal
The title poem won the Poet Laureate Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society in 2008. Other of York's poems have appeared in the Greensboro Review, which awarded him their Literary Award for Poetry in 1985. A career teacher in the public school system, York was named in 2003 the Teacher of the Year by the North Carolna English Teachers Associaton. He lives in Greensboro.
According to Fred Chappell, "[York's] pliant lyricism is born from a deep love of country things, country people, an dte country itself in the widest meaning of that term."
For more information, please call City Lights at 828-586-9499.
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