Libraries for A Better You
Both local libraries are offering free resources to monitor and maintain good mental and emotional health.
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Fabulous Fall with Fontana
If you’re reading this, you’re learning. Continue this trend with regular visits to Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library and
Hudson Library.
Past Meets Modernity
For author Michael Almond, the conflicts at the core of The Tannery continue to simmer just below the surface of modern American life. He’ll talk about his work and the themes that animate his writing with a pair of events at local libraries.
Harrowing Horrors at the Hudson | Highlands NC
Murder and mayhem make their way to the Plateau in author Christopher Swann’s rural-noir A Fire in the Night. He’ll appear at Hudson Library at 12:30 P.M. Saturday, September 25, to talk about A Fire in the Night and his two previous novels.
Read & Feed Your Brain
The twin libraries celebrate new novels that resonate with this corner of Western North Carolina and celebrate the freedom to read controversial works that are under threat of removal.
A Visit with Karen White
Author Karen White’s new novel spotlights the residents of London during the Blitz and the way their experiences resonated through the decades. She’ll talk about The Last Night in London and her life as a writer in a pair of free presentations – July 9 and 10 at Albert-Carlton Cashiers Community Library and Hudson Library in Highlands.
Somewhat Back to Normal
Come on in! Hudson and Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library are back to normal and offering new services (like these neat Take and Make kits) for their patrons.
Timely Summer Read: Author Mary Alice Monroe
Author Mary Alice Monroe will illuminate the timely and timeless lessons embedded within her new novel, The Summer of Lost and Found, with a pair of presentations, May 28 and 29.
Exercise Your Green Thumb
The days are growing long and warm – it’s time to get back in the dirt. But first, some quick lessons, courtesy of the Plateau’s twin libraries.
Armchair Travelers | Highlands Cashiers Libraries
For those of us quarantine-crazed and those whose travel plans were Covid-cancelled, a visit to the Highlands Cashiers Plateau’s twin libraries may be
just the ticket.
Events
Author Michael Almond at Hudson Library
Almond is scheduled to share his book and to speak at the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Library at a community event hosted by The Friends of the Library on October 22 at 3:00 P.M. He will also speak at a Books and Bites public event at the Highlands Hudson Library on October 23 at 12:30 P.M.
Community Coffee at Hudson Library
Community Coffee with Mayor Taylor, a joint endeavor by Hudson Library and the Town of Highlands, is held each month from February through October, usually on the last Friday, at Hudson Library. Every month Mayor Taylor, regularly joined by guest speakers, offers information about topics of interest to the entire Highlands community.
Meet the Author Deena C. Bouknight at Hudson Library
Author Deena C. Bouknight will be at Hudson Library for a book signing of her latest book Light Fracture, a well-researched, sense-of-place, post-Reconstruction tale that builds in and around a lighthouse culture to climax with a natural disaster involving strange phenomena before, during, and after an estimated magnitude-7 earthquake.
Author Kristin Harmel at Hudson Library
Kristin Harmel: September 4, 12:30 P.M., Hudson Library, Books & Bites – Harmel will discuss her latest release: The Forest of Vanishing Stars. Reservations are required.
Author Kristy Woodson Harvey at Hudson Library
Kristy Woodson Harvey: August 7, 3:30 P.M., Hudson Library, Books & Bites – Harvey will discuss her latest release: Under the Southern Sky. Reservations are required.
Author Susan Meissner at Hudson Library
Susan Meissner, July 31, 12:30 P.M., Hudson Library, Books & Bites – Meissner will discuss her latest release: The Nature of Fragile Things. Reservations are required.
Author Karen White at Hudson Library
Karen White: July 10, 12:30 P.M., Hudson Library, Books & Bites – White will discuss her latest release: The Last Night in London. Reservations required.
Author Mary Alice Monroe at Hudson Library
Mary Alice Monroe: May 29, 12:30 P.M., Hudson Library (HL). Books & Bites – Monroe will discuss her latest release: The Summer of Lost and Found. Reservations required.
Author Kristin Harvey at Hudson Library
Meet Author Kristin Harmel as she discusses the craft of writing at the Hudson Library in Highlands, NC.
Author Susan Meissner at Hudson Library
Meet author Susan Meissner at Hudson Library in Highlands NC on July 31 as she discusses her latest book, “The Nature of Fragile Things.”
