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Author Talk: John Lingan

November 8, 2018 @ 6:30 PM

An intimate account of country music, social change, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century in Lingan’s Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk

Handley Regional Library System, in partnership with the Virginia Center for Literary Arts, announces a new author talk with John Lingan on November 8th at 6:30PM at the Handley Library. His book, Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk, portrays Winchester, VA and teases apart the tangle of class, race, and family origin that still defines the town – illuminating questions that now dominate our national conversation—about how to move into the future without pretending our past doesn’t exist, about what we salvage, and what we leave behind.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Handley Regional Library. Books will be available for purchase by the Winchester Book Gallery.

Lingan’s author talk could spark conversations about history, social change, and more. Lingan first traveled to Winchester; it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the DJ who first gave airtime to a brassy-voiced singer known as Patsy Cline, setting her on a course for fame that outlasted her tragically short life. What Lingan found was a town in the midst of an identity crisis.

Details

Date:
November 8, 2018
Time:
6:30 PM
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Website:
https://handley.libcal.com/event/4689713

Venue

Handley Regional Library
100 W. Piccadilly St.
Winchester, VA 22601
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Phone
(540) 662-9041
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