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Weymouth Center: Literary Event with Bland Simpson and Ann Cary Simpson

November 10 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

FREE

Join as The Country Bookshop and The Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities welcome Bland Simpson and Ann Cary Simpson to discuss Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir. The event takes place on Sunday, November 10th | 2pm-3pm.

“Between North Carolina’s coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, piedmont regions are found all over the world, but North Carolina’s Piedmont is among the largest in the United States, sitting along an environmental crossroads where northern and southern flora and fauna overlap, offering an incredibly rich natural diversity. Inhabited continuously for thousands of years, the state’s rural heartland is today home to an increasingly dense population. Yet most who reside in the region’s cities, suburbs, and smaller towns still live within reach of red-clay farmland, oak and hickory forests watered by small creeks, and rocky river valleys. These places—as they have been and as they are now—remain essential to the character of life in the South…”

The event is free; however, please register through the event website link provided below.

 

Venue

Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities
555 East Connecticut Ave
Southern Pines, NC 28387
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