Enjoy “A Conversation about Place in Fiction and Art” with authors Mary Alice Monroe and Delia Owens on Sunday, August 18 at 3pm. A reception will follow.Tickets are $35 per person and are available at:https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/a-conversation-about-place-in-fiction-and-art-with-mary-alice-monroe-and-delia-owens Mary Alice Monroe is the author of 27 books, including her latest bestseller, “The Summer of Lost and Found.” Delia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa including “Cry of the Kalahari” and “Where the Crawdads Sing.”...
Author, Drew Hines, will sign his new book, “Hidden History of the Dark Corner” on Friday, May 24, from 5-7pm. The book is a collection of historical accounts, anecdotes and character sketches from that section of northern Greenville County traditionally known as the Dark Corner. The Book Shelf Bookstore is located at 17 South Trade St., Tryon,...
Book signing at The Book Shelf on Saturday, April 6 at 2:30pm. Tryonite Mary Maroney Walker, daughter of the late Bill and Cynthis Maroney, will be signing books at The Book Shelf on Saturday, April 6 at 2:30 p.m. A lifelong artist, she is well known for her work all over the Southeast and Northeast. Walker is one of three artists currently exhibiting at the Upstairs Artspace and is a painter and printmaker. Born in New York and raised in Tryon, she exhibits regularly and lives on Johns Island outside of Charleston, S.C. She is the winner of numerous regional grants and residencies, and has worked in several print studios including King Snake Press in Greenville, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC, Print Studio South in Charleston, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy, Santa Reparta in Florence, Italy, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass., Spirit Square in Charlotte, Castle Hill in Truro, Mass., New Grounds Print Studio in Albuquerque, N.M. and Studio Due on Johns Island. Through BIG INK, she has printed at the Maryland Art Center, Riverspace in Lynchburg, Va., and Artspace in Raleigh. She is a member of the Contemporary Print Cooperative in Greenville. Walker is represented by the Corrigan Gallery in Charleston and the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, Mass.. ...
