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Showing newest 6 of 23 posts from July 2009. Show older posts
Showing newest 6 of 23 posts from July 2009. Show older posts
Friday, July 31, 2009
Retro-fit Your Walls with These Posters
Retro-fit Your Walls with These Posters: "
The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes You to her JUNGLE, or as she calls it, BOOKLAND!
Dear Readers,My life has been blessed. I have an amazing home that covers my head and fortunately for me, our family home is one that welcomes others.
About a week ago, my childhood friend, Heidi Teichgraeber, came through with Pastor Maureen, and the youth group from my original hometown of Eureka, Kansas as the half way stop to a gigantic Lutheran Youth Rally in New Orleans. They spent the night then on the return trip. The were suppose to arrive around ten o'clock but ended up arriving after 1:00 a.m. Hey, they stopped at an alligator farm, and who wouldn't!
What great kids from the Lutheran and other church's of Eureka! I had kids piled to the rafters sleeping on beds, couches, pallets on the floor. We had a great time sharing stories and our lives together.
All my life I have been fascinated with Graceland, Elvis's home place. I have toured it nearly every time I have been to Memphis and what always struck me about his home, was you could tell it was a home that Elvis filled with family and friends. I particularly loved the dishes in the kitchen that we too had at home as they came from the grocery store or boxes of laundry soap. Elvis came from humble beginnings too. Then there was the JUNGLE ROOM!
Man, as a kid, I loved Tarzan! That JUNGLE ROOM was to die for so I created my own in my home as you can see above. Pastor Maureen and Heidi stayed in mine. I have collected Tarzan memorabilia for years from comic books to dolls and then my fascination with anything animal print! You can see I have JUNGLE FEVER!
Therefore, I dubbed my home "BOOKLAND", like Elvis's GRACELAND! The last photo I featured is one of my libraries. I have another full library in my old shop, downstairs is all my non-ficiton books, which is now also my husband's recording studio.
But what is a home? A home is a place where you can go that always welcomes you with loving arms. Please "Grace my doors", whether my shop, Beauty and the Book, or my home. I would like to think that like my church, The First United Methodist, that I too have a home that believes in "open door" policy.
In the years that we have lived here we have had two International Rotary Exchange Students live with us Chisato from Japan and David from Germany. We have had the Christian Rock Band, The Thirty, stay with us on numerous occasions. Authors have spent the night and even journalists. Family, friends, strangers, you name it and I have at least 50 slumber parties under my belt because of my girls and their birthdays or Girl Scout troop adventures. If our walls could talk, it would surely be volumes of books!
You will see photos above of the youth and the beautiful cross that the youth gave to me that they purchased in New Orleans. Evidently, the young man who made the crosses out of recycled jewelry does so to help pay for his extensive medical expenses. I am not sure of what they are but how beautiful. Heidi also gave me an incredible perfume bottle fit for a Queen! I had told the kids that most of the things on my wall and in my house were gifts from others and I put them all out so I can see everything to remind me of all my friends and family. I know it is hard for the eye to focus there is so much stuff but my life has been blessed with a wealth of friends! And isn't that what God really wants us to compile for riches, a wealth of family and friends. All I can say is I may never be a rich woman, but I am loaded when it comes to family and friends!
Then there is the card the kids gave me and I would like to share finally the words and sentiment of that card to end this blog:
Thank You....
For being one of those
rare people
who are willing to go that
extra mile for others ----
and for giving so much of yourself...
We hope you know....
how much we appreciate you,
how grateful we are for your kindness,
and how deeply your thoughtfulness
and consideration have touched us.
Thank You
Heidi, Paster Maureen, Brent, Lydia, Brittany, Tanner, Ashley, Kodi, Steven, Janessa, Wayne, and Scott
CCYF Eureka, KS
Yes, I am truly blessed!
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" and
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs
www.southernauthors.blogspot.com of where I posted my contributing blog yesterday!
www.jeffersonfumc.com, my church!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Pulpwood Queen FINALLY Came Out of the Closet on Being a Writer!
The Pulpwood Queen FINALLY Came Out of the Closet on Being a Writer!
How in the world did I become a writer, this little shy girl from Kansas? I lived in a town that did not have a bookstore, or a true library in her grade school. We did have a hallway with shelves of books, but more importantly, we had teachers who believed in the power of reading aloud books. They read to us everyday after lunch, to get us settled down after our lunch and recess. Those read aloud times planting the seed for me as a writer. I became lost in the story.
I can still remember the day, Jack died in The Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Our 5th grade class was inconsolable as Mrs. Hall carried around the box of Kleenix as we balled over the loss of Laura's beloved pet. I had received a brand spanking new Smith-Corona typewriter that year from Santa and one that came with an instruction book on typing. I practiced and practiced until I had typing down pat. I was going to be a writer just like Laura and record what happened to me in my "Little House of the Flint Hills of Kansas". Only, I found my stories boring after reading them aloud boring. Laura wasn't boring, so I began to read.
I do believe that in order to become a true writer, you must become a reader first. I became a voracious reader as a child, and still am to this day, thanks to my teachers who instilled in me that love for the story. I still kept writing but it was not until my forties that I found my true voice in writing. I admire others who found it earlier but I have always been a late bloomer.
I began to write my story, my life in books and how books saved me. Such a cliched phrase but I truly believe that my reading and writing life has brought me all the passion I need for a purposeful life.
But once I began the writing process of telling my story, what to write about, what not to write about, I began to have my doubts on whether I could live up to all the authors I had placed high above me on pedestals. My favorites have always been southern authors because they have a way of telling a story to me that is so much more descriptive than other authors. Their voices sounded more familiar to me as I grew up in a family of storytellers. How could my book compare to those I revered, Pat Conroy, Mark Childress, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, or my all time favorite author, Harper Lee?
The truth of the matter is I finally decided, I can't compete with those folks. All I needed to do was to be true to me. It is just that simple. All I needed to do was just tell my story like I was talking to you all in person. So as I wrote my book, I would stop and read it back aloud, just like my teachers use to read to me. It worked. I had found my voice and it echoed from the past voices of my Kansas teachers. Simple, true, and above all passionate.
My first book was published, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing, Guide to Life" and my life was then changed forever. I had come out of the closet, so to speak as a writer, now I can say I am a published author. I turned that book over to God thanks to the wise words and advise of Mark Childress, and vowed that I would continue to read, to educate myself on being a better writer, and to stay true to myself. I tell everyone I know now my life is an open book. I try to publish everyday a story on my blog site, http://www.pulpwoodqueen.com/. Because to get better, you have to practice, practice, practice.
What I have learned from my first book is reading has not only saved my life, but writing has too. So my next book of which I am working on now, I call, "The Pulpwood Queens' Guide to Reading and Writing for a Higher Purpose". I have found that reading books leads me and my now 250 Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Book Clubs to doing good works. My Anchorage, Alaska chapter flew me up for their first anniversary and I went with them as they helped start a book club in Alaska's Women Correctional Facility, The Pulpwood Queens of Hiland Meadows. My South Louisiana chapter has championed raising the funds to buy textbooks for an entire school in Nicaragua, and even just recently presented in person 100 Bibles for all the students. Now that's the reading part, you say, what about the writing?
Shortly after, I published my book I began teaching a life writing class to the homeless at Newgate Mission in Longview, Texas. I thought my life had changed from reading and writing but what has happend at Newgate has been a gift to me from God. He has given me truly a purpose to my life. We have spent the last week filming with United Methodist Television a feature that will air nationally soon on that endeavor. Writing changes lives too. I have watched it with my own eyes. I even began a book club there, The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys of Newgate Mission.
My life is unfolding just like the story in a book. And because I want my life to have a happy ending I have thrown myself into this reading and writing life with full abandon. I now know that reading has saved me and writing has too. Won't you all join me on this literacy journey?
For more on my story or how to join the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, go to http://www.beautyandthebook.com/, click on Pulpwood Queens.
For more on my daily reading and writing adventures, go to http://www.pulpwoodqueen.com/.
Last, I would like to say that reading and writing is not suppose to be a solitary adventure. Those teachers who read aloud to us small town Kansas kids had to have the interaction between the reader and the audience for the full reading experience. Reading out loud must make a big comeback. Sharing stories is what makes us more human. We also must not be so at task at writing that we forget who we are writing for, who is our reader? The one thing that makes my book club so unique is that I really try to bring each author in each month so the readers can hear their perspective of their writing process. If they cannot come in, they volunteer to call in to any of my chapters that so wishes. To read a book is one dimension, to share a book with another is another dimension, but to have the author talk to a book club is to bring the full picture into focus.
As I listed all my book club selection authors in my book and give book lists at the end of each chapter, I want people to know that there are many, many great books out there that are not getting the attention they deserve. If my reading and writing life does one thing, I hope it connects a reader with a writer that reveals they are not alone in this world but have found a home. I have built a house, a home of books, and that's where I will continue to dwell. Won't you grace my doors and join me in this reading and writing life?
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", Grand Central Publishing
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world!
Beauty and the Book
608 North Polk Street
Jefferson, Texas 75657
903-665-7520
http://www.beautyandthebook.com/
http://www.pulpwoodqueen.com/
How in the world did I become a writer, this little shy girl from Kansas? I lived in a town that did not have a bookstore, or a true library in her grade school. We did have a hallway with shelves of books, but more importantly, we had teachers who believed in the power of reading aloud books. They read to us everyday after lunch, to get us settled down after our lunch and recess. Those read aloud times planting the seed for me as a writer. I became lost in the story.
I can still remember the day, Jack died in The Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Our 5th grade class was inconsolable as Mrs. Hall carried around the box of Kleenix as we balled over the loss of Laura's beloved pet. I had received a brand spanking new Smith-Corona typewriter that year from Santa and one that came with an instruction book on typing. I practiced and practiced until I had typing down pat. I was going to be a writer just like Laura and record what happened to me in my "Little House of the Flint Hills of Kansas". Only, I found my stories boring after reading them aloud boring. Laura wasn't boring, so I began to read.
I do believe that in order to become a true writer, you must become a reader first. I became a voracious reader as a child, and still am to this day, thanks to my teachers who instilled in me that love for the story. I still kept writing but it was not until my forties that I found my true voice in writing. I admire others who found it earlier but I have always been a late bloomer.
I began to write my story, my life in books and how books saved me. Such a cliched phrase but I truly believe that my reading and writing life has brought me all the passion I need for a purposeful life.
But once I began the writing process of telling my story, what to write about, what not to write about, I began to have my doubts on whether I could live up to all the authors I had placed high above me on pedestals. My favorites have always been southern authors because they have a way of telling a story to me that is so much more descriptive than other authors. Their voices sounded more familiar to me as I grew up in a family of storytellers. How could my book compare to those I revered, Pat Conroy, Mark Childress, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, or my all time favorite author, Harper Lee?
The truth of the matter is I finally decided, I can't compete with those folks. All I needed to do was to be true to me. It is just that simple. All I needed to do was just tell my story like I was talking to you all in person. So as I wrote my book, I would stop and read it back aloud, just like my teachers use to read to me. It worked. I had found my voice and it echoed from the past voices of my Kansas teachers. Simple, true, and above all passionate.
My first book was published, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing, Guide to Life" and my life was then changed forever. I had come out of the closet, so to speak as a writer, now I can say I am a published author. I turned that book over to God thanks to the wise words and advise of Mark Childress, and vowed that I would continue to read, to educate myself on being a better writer, and to stay true to myself. I tell everyone I know now my life is an open book. I try to publish everyday a story on my blog site, http://www.pulpwoodqueen.com/. Because to get better, you have to practice, practice, practice.
What I have learned from my first book is reading has not only saved my life, but writing has too. So my next book of which I am working on now, I call, "The Pulpwood Queens' Guide to Reading and Writing for a Higher Purpose". I have found that reading books leads me and my now 250 Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Book Clubs to doing good works. My Anchorage, Alaska chapter flew me up for their first anniversary and I went with them as they helped start a book club in Alaska's Women Correctional Facility, The Pulpwood Queens of Hiland Meadows. My South Louisiana chapter has championed raising the funds to buy textbooks for an entire school in Nicaragua, and even just recently presented in person 100 Bibles for all the students. Now that's the reading part, you say, what about the writing?
Shortly after, I published my book I began teaching a life writing class to the homeless at Newgate Mission in Longview, Texas. I thought my life had changed from reading and writing but what has happend at Newgate has been a gift to me from God. He has given me truly a purpose to my life. We have spent the last week filming with United Methodist Television a feature that will air nationally soon on that endeavor. Writing changes lives too. I have watched it with my own eyes. I even began a book club there, The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys of Newgate Mission.
My life is unfolding just like the story in a book. And because I want my life to have a happy ending I have thrown myself into this reading and writing life with full abandon. I now know that reading has saved me and writing has too. Won't you all join me on this literacy journey?
For more on my story or how to join the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, go to http://www.beautyandthebook.com/, click on Pulpwood Queens.
For more on my daily reading and writing adventures, go to http://www.pulpwoodqueen.com/.
Last, I would like to say that reading and writing is not suppose to be a solitary adventure. Those teachers who read aloud to us small town Kansas kids had to have the interaction between the reader and the audience for the full reading experience. Reading out loud must make a big comeback. Sharing stories is what makes us more human. We also must not be so at task at writing that we forget who we are writing for, who is our reader? The one thing that makes my book club so unique is that I really try to bring each author in each month so the readers can hear their perspective of their writing process. If they cannot come in, they volunteer to call in to any of my chapters that so wishes. To read a book is one dimension, to share a book with another is another dimension, but to have the author talk to a book club is to bring the full picture into focus.
As I listed all my book club selection authors in my book and give book lists at the end of each chapter, I want people to know that there are many, many great books out there that are not getting the attention they deserve. If my reading and writing life does one thing, I hope it connects a reader with a writer that reveals they are not alone in this world but have found a home. I have built a house, a home of books, and that's where I will continue to dwell. Won't you grace my doors and join me in this reading and writing life?
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", Grand Central Publishing
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world!
Beauty and the Book
608 North Polk Street
Jefferson, Texas 75657
903-665-7520
http://www.beautyandthebook.com/
http://www.pulpwoodqueen.com/
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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July 06, 2009
Wicked Plants is a Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection for December!
And I have the Official Seal to prove it.
If you don't know about the Pulpwood Queens, let me introduce you to Beauty and the Book, located about an hour from where my grandparents used to live in East Texas. This is a part of the world that is very close to my heart.
And owner Kathy Patrick wrote this wonderful book called The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life. It's a hoot.
And now there are 239 Pulpwood Queen Book Club chapters all over the place. Not just in Texas. You probably need one in your town. Find out more here.
I am going to try very hard to get to her Extravangza in January. Working on it.
July 06, 2009 in Book Tour/Events Permalink
July 06, 2009
Wicked Plants is a Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection for December!
And I have the Official Seal to prove it.
If you don't know about the Pulpwood Queens, let me introduce you to Beauty and the Book, located about an hour from where my grandparents used to live in East Texas. This is a part of the world that is very close to my heart.
And owner Kathy Patrick wrote this wonderful book called The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life. It's a hoot.
And now there are 239 Pulpwood Queen Book Club chapters all over the place. Not just in Texas. You probably need one in your town. Find out more here.
I am going to try very hard to get to her Extravangza in January. Working on it.
July 06, 2009 in Book Tour/Events Permalink
The Pulpwood Queen Portrays Joshua at First United Methodist Church of Jefferson, Texas Vacation Bible School!
Dear Readers,
It's been a long, long time since I went to Vacation Bible School. I loved it as a kid and my favorite part was the sing along, "I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart! Where?" And just like the Vacation Bible School of my youth, we too started the evening out with singing! What joy as the kids danced to their heart's content to words and music!
You see, I was asked to be the storyteller for our themed, Camp E.D.G.E. this year and portrayed Joshua as I told the Old Testament story of leading the Israelites to the promised land. We learned sign language too as we acted out scripture, that's the photo with me and the kids and I especially like the kids carrying carefully the Ark of the Covenant I made out of two cardboard boxes and the crutches my daughter, Lainie, used as a kid when she broke her foot, see photo. We learned of the 12 tribes of Israel and I was really pleased as the kids all had a good time learning of this Old Testament story.
The camp theme was right up my alley as I loved the entire set Diana Furlough and the good ladies of the church had put together to decorate for the event. Fun was had by all and despite the rainy weather. We had a great turnout!
Tonight I will return as one of the three Kings to tell the story of the birth of Jesus. United Methodist Communications is sending back John Gordon, a video journalist/producer to film for a future television segment on my life promoting reading and books! I will keep you posted on that television airing when it becomes known.
But judging from the amount of rain we received last night and still raining cats and dogs, we could have told the Noah story. Planning on wearing my leopard print waders to work today!
So follow along with me on this reading and writing life adventure daily here at www.pulpwoodqueen.com. God has a purpose for me and this week it's helping with Vacation Bible School at my church, The First United Methodist Church of Jefferson, Texas. I know I have received a ton of email on my getting "Methodist of the Month" that will be up soon at www.umc.org. All I can say is God is involved in all of this, I am just following his lead on my life's path. I can also tell you that it has been a long time since I have been around kids this small and what a JOY! You never know what they will say and sometimes, their innocent yet wise wisdom takes my breath away! My challenge to you is to volunteer to read to children. One of the greatest gifts God has given me is to read to children.
Now on to raiding my closets for a wise man outfit, and I even have a crown! Go figure!
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
The Pulpwood Queen
www.jeffersonfumc.com
P.S. Paster Maureen and my childhood friend, Heidi Teichgraeber will also be back late tonight with their youth group of the Lutheran Church of my original hometown of Eureka, Kansas. We are the half way point from New Orleans to home. The high schoolers have been attending a youth rally of I believe 40,000 Lutherans on a mission trip to New Orleans. I have been receiving posts from the kids on Facebook and I can tell they really, really enjoyed this mission trip. More photos and story tomorrow as my life is an open book! See you tomorrow and would love to hear your comments!
P.S. Paster Maureen and my childhood friend, Heidi Teichgraeber will also be back late tonight with their youth group of the Lutheran Church of my original hometown of Eureka, Kansas. We are the half way point from New Orleans to home. The high schoolers have been attending a youth rally of I believe 40,000 Lutherans on a mission trip to New Orleans. I have been receiving posts from the kids on Facebook and I can tell they really, really enjoyed this mission trip. More photos and story tomorrow as my life is an open book! See you tomorrow and would love to hear your comments!
Monday, July 27, 2009
The Pulpwood Queen, NOT Your Typical "Methodist of the Month"!
Dear Readers,
This past week I received an email from John Gordon, a video journalist/producer of United Methodist Communications. They wanted to come film and feature me on their television program and also feature me as "Methodist of the Month" on their online website, http://www.umc.org/. I was stunned.
Now I have received calls from producers of other national television programs, such as, Oprah Winfrey's OXYGEN Network, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Good Morning America for features. To me, that was a given. My book clubs, The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys have been promoting literacy for almost ten years in a really big way. We not only talk the talk on promoting literacy, we walk the walk. But to be featured by my church, in a national way, whoa. All I could think of was why me?
Then after a pretty atypical week of having our historic museum get hit by a thunderbolt of lightning, driving all the way to Lindale, Texas to go to the Drive-In movie theater there with my two daughters, teaching my life writing class at the homeless shelter, Newgate Mission, travel around Texas and Louisiana after long days of work to support my husband and the band he was playing in, Black Water, I realized I do not lead the typical life. Where in the world was God leading me and what purpose is my life?
Then my minister, Allison Byerley's sermon Sunday was themed, "It's not about me". I had my answer. It is not about me.
When I wrote my book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", I vowed that there would be no more secrets. My life would be an open book and the big boulder I was carrying around on my back began to lift. I would put God first, family and friends second, and everything else after that course of action. Have I done this perfectly? No way. But if I do give the true glory to God and try to work on living my life as he leads me, then perhaps there is a purposeful life, a life with incredible meaning.
That does not mean it has not been the weirdest week of my life. In the photos, you will see where the thunderbolt hit our museum here in Jefferson. You will see John Gordon filming fellow Methodist Leah Cooper reading in my shop. What you will see in the future is perhaps in the television feature me cutting my minister, Allison Byerley's hair or perhaps me leading my life writing class and book club at the homeless shelter, Newgate Mission in Longview, Texas as John Gordon filmed that venture in promoting literacy and reading too.
Then you will see in the continuing photos, Jay and I, his mother, Reba Patrick and friends, Nancy Cleere and Carolyn Reeves as we enjoyed dinner at the Horseshoe Casino then BLACK WATER playing at CMT Crossroads at the Horseshoe Casino in Bossier City, Louisiana.
Nancy was teasing me about being "Methodist of the Month" when I happened to look up and see the name of our waiter, JESUS. Yes, that's Nancy with JESUS our waiter in the photo. You may laugh, but I took it as a sign that I was where I was suppose to be, supporting my husband's love of music.
Saturday afternoon Jay and I hit the road after I finished work to drive to Gilmer to pick up the trailer with PA system to take on to Leon's Steakhouse in Longview, Texas where they would be playing that night. This was a country western honky tonk my friends. Maybe you are thinking not your typical hangout for a "Methodist of the Month" but my husband's band was playing there so I was along to support the band.
We got there way too early and I spent the afternoon drinking Cokes with the fellows at the bar as the boys set up their instruments for the night. At first, I thought what have I gotten myself into but as I got to know Donny, Robert, Jed I found out they were just pretty good ole boys. They all ended up staying to hear the band that night. As the band started and the evening progressed, those boys all told me how nice it was for all the band and I to just sit and share some conversation. They felt they had gotten back stage passes to hear some real celebrities. They loved the band so much they all plan on coming over to Jefferson to hear Black Water play at Auntie Skinner's when they play as a fundraiser for the Marian County Chamber of Commerce at Auntie Skinner's Riverboat Club, August 14th.
As we broke down all the band's equipment, packed up, and hauled the trailer back to Gilmer, Jay and I got home between 3:30 a.m. and 4 on Sunday morning. It was hard to get up and make it to church but I did because I know that God wants us to gather together to worship. I'm glad I did as Allison's message hit home for me, "It is not about me, it's about him".
I wonder sometimes what God does have planned for me. Today it's getting ready to lead the storytelling tent at CAMP EDGE at our First United Methodist Church Vacation Bible School at our church this evening. John Gordan will be back tomorrow night to film that event.
I have learned that books saved me including the "good book". I have also learned that leading a reading and writing life where you put God first gives me peace and happiness. I'm not there yet by a long shot but I will keep looking to God to lead me where I need to go. Won't you join me in this reading and writing life? I would love to hear from you? My path may not be anywhere near where yours is going but they all lead to the same destination. I look forward to seeing you all there.
Tiara wearing and Book sharing guide to life,
Kathy L. Patrick
Author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" and
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs
Beauty and the Book
608 North Polk Street
Jefferson, Texas 75657
903-665-7520
P.S. Last I would like to share with you a youtube video of a wedding sent to me by my friend and author, Andy Behrman. Tell me this isn't the best celebration of the beginning of a new life together! Check it out at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0&feature=player_embedded
P.P.S. Here's the press release on BLACK WATER playing for Marion County Chamber of Commerce "Hot Summer Nights" Fundraiser:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: MARION COUNTY C OF C
JULY 21, 2009 (903) 665-2672 or (888) GO RELAX
“SNAKE AND DEADWOOD” TO HEADLINE CHAMBER FETE
Auntie Skinners’ Hosting “Hot Summer Nights” Benefit
JEFFERSON, Texas - Rockin’ blues and a chance to get away from it all will be the storyline on Friday, August 14 when Auntie Skinners’ Riverboat Club hosts a “Hot Summer Night Benefit” with proceeds heading toward the Marion County Chamber of Commerce coffers.
“Blackwater” will be the headline musical attraction with appearances by Snake and Deadwood Blooze. The rock and blues outfit features John “Driftwood” Nance on rhythm guitar and Jay “Pulpwood” Patrick on keyboards. “Deadwood” - aka local attorney Bill Smith - and “Snake” Blooze, also known as local thespian Andy Looney, lead the seven-piece outfit that also includes Weyland Graham on lead guitar, Matt “Basswood” Early on bass guitar and Biff “Hardwood” Rains on drums.
Blackwater will take the stage at 9 p.m. and perform until closing.
Attendees also get a chance to win a $750 airline travel voucher, compliments of Auntie Skinners‘ owner Gary Fant.
“This is great, and it’s going to be a lot of fun for the folks that come in that night,” said Marion County Chamber of Commerce president Charlie Chitwood. “Our hat is off to the Fants for being so generous as to come up with this idea and host a fundraiser for the Chamber. Thanks too go out to Bill Smith and “Blackwater” for volunteering their time and talent to put on a show - those guys are real entertainers.”
Admission to the benefit is $10 - tickets can be purchased at the door or ahead of time at either Auntie Skinners’ Riverboat Club (107 W. Austin Street) or at the Marion County Chamber of Commerce office at 101 N. Polk Street.
Raffle tickets for the $750 travel voucher are $5 and can also be purchased in advance at both Auntie Skinners’ and the Chamber office.
For more information or to reserve tickets, contact the Chamber office at (903) 665-2672 or (888) GO-RELAX (467-3529).
Auntie
Marion County Chamber of Commerce
101 N. Polk Street
Jefferson, TX 75657
888-467-3529 903-665-2672
Fax 903-665-8233
www.jefferson-texas.com
Darlene Wray, Historian
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