It is time for the sixth annual Alabama Book Festival!
The festival will be held in historic downtown Montgomery at Old Alabama Town on April 16, 2011, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a free public event featuring more than 50 writers. Click here for a complete list of authors who will be in attendance.
Bring the kids out! Children can enjoy an activity area organized by APT that features educational games, arts and crafts, and appearances by characters Cat in the Hat, Arthur and Clifford!
Visit the Alabama Center for the Book's website or their Facebook page for more information.
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again...
This meeting was a special one because it was our first off-site meeting and for a couple of other reasons, too. This meeting marked our 2ndanniversary of book club at the library. Yay! And Fried Green Tomatoes is a book that is very dear to the Irondale community, especially the library because Fannie Flagg researched at our very library when she was writing the book - how exciting!
For more information about FGT, the book and the movie:
Thanks again to everyone who came out to the meeting. A BIG thank you to Irondale Cafe for hosting us and providing coupons to our book club members. We really appreciate it!!! Fried Green Tomatoes is the countywide selection of Project Read One Book. There are events and book club meetings all over Jefferson County - check out the calender of events for more info.
Every year since 1987, throughout the month of March, the United States celebrates National Women's History Month. It has evolved from a single day of celebration to a weeklong observance and finally to an entire monthlong celebration.
