BOOK SIGNING SEPT 1

BOOK SIGNING SEPT 1

WHO:

Dr. Susan Wiltshire has graciously accepted an invitation by Christopher Burawa, executive director of the APSU Center of Excellence to co-sign my cookbook as a fundraiser for the Center. Dr. Wiltshire contributed a recipe that she makes and said was her daughter’s favorite.

Dr. Susan Ford Wiltshire is Professor of Classics Emeritus at Vanderbilt University and served as department Chair for 9 years. The Tennessee author is a graduate of Columbia University and written numerous books including “Public and Private in Vergil’s Aeneid”; “Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights”; “Seasons of Grief and Grace”; “Athena’s Disguises; and Windmills and Bridges”: “Poems Near and Far”.

She has served on the Board of the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

WHERE:

Ingredients For The Gormet In You will soon be celebrating their 2 year anniversary in business in Historic Downtown Clarksville, TN located on Strawberry Alley. They offer a wide range of items including kitchen accessories, food items, wine supplies, cookbooks, and cooking classes.

WHEN:

Come join us Sept. 1 from 5 to 8 p.m. for a presentation and book signing of the cookbook “Country Goodness Recipes of Tennessee Celebrities” BY BOTH Dr. Wiltshire and me, author Pamela Whinnery

INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSEUM-ROMP

INTERNATIONAL

BLUEGRASS MUSEUM-ROMP

This weekend I had the pleasure to do a book signing at ROMP “River Of Music Party” , sponsored by the International Bluegrass Museum. It was so much fun. They had bluegrass bands from as far away as Japan, Hungary, and Sweden. Bill Monroe would have been pleased.

One of the most interesting bands was the Professors of Bluegrass, who are all professors at Yale and their Bass Player is the Provost there.

Bluegrass is the official State Music of Kentucky, and Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky" shares with Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home" the honorable distinction of being the official Kentucky State Songs. The infectiously energetic style of dance that grew up around bluegrass and old time music is clogging, the official Kentucky State Dance.

The International Bluegrass Museum, established to preserve the history of the music Mr. Monroe created, is located 30 minutes from the little town of Rosine, Kentucky, and Jerusalem Ridge, the homeplace where he was born and grew to manhood, and where he and members of his family now rest in peace.

The International Bluegrass Music Museum is located in the RiverPark Complex in downtown Owensboro, Kentucky. As you draw near, you'll hear the sounds of bluegrass music emanating from the museum's radio station, RBI, with audio speakers taking the music to the streets. Only a few hundred feet from the museum's entrance, the sound of music drifts downstream via the mighty Ohio River, the subject of more than a few memorable bluegrass songs.

For more information on the Museum go to their website at http://www.bluegrass-museum.org/general/home.php