Author Event: Nancy Spannaus

Author Event: Nancy Spannaus – Defeating Slavery: Hamilton’s American System Showed the Way

Slavery is not in America’s DNA. Nancy Spannaus argues that the crucial factor was the abandonment of the economic principles of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton envisioned creating an agro-industrial nation, which could only be built by eliminating the slave system. When Jefferson, and then Andrew Jackson, undermined and crushed Hamilton’s program, they put the nation on the path to war. Meet author Nancy Spannaus and hear more about this troubling story.

Author Event: J. Denison Reed – Clifford’s War

Join us in welcoming author J. Denison Reed to the Winchester Book Gallery! He’ll be signing copies of his series, Clifford’s War, including The Bluegrass Battleground and Clifford’s War: Without End. The series was a finalist in bestthrillers.com’s 2023 selection, and a sure win for anyone who enjoys a solid thrill. See you there!

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Author Talk with Tim Youmans: Streets and Alleys of Winchester, Virginia

Join us in celebrating a new local author book: Streets and Alleys of Winchester, Virginia. Author Tim Youmans, planning director for the City of Winchester, will discuss the years of research he conducted discerning the origin of the streets and alleys that are currently within the corporate limits of the City of Winchester. In all, the book includes 571 entries of named public and private streets. For this talk, the author will select a few of the more interesting roadway name entries to highlight.

Tim is in his 36th year as Director of Planning for the City of Winchester, Virginia. He serves as Winchester’s Certified Local Government (CLG) Coordinator as designated by the Virginia Dept of Historic Resources to administer historic district projects. He led a CLG-funded effort to amend the existing Winchester National Historic District, including a major expansion of the National Register district adding nearly 500 resources to the district.

Tim has been an active member of many local historical societies, organizations, and committees including the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, the Kernstown Battlefield Association, and the City’s 275th Anniversary Committee. He has received numerous awards for his work in history and preservation.

Previous authored works by Tim include a 2001 WFCHS Journal article about Rouss City Hall and the Rouss City Hall Murder Mystery Tour, which he also co-produced.

Tim, and his wife Midge, reside in Winchester and have three grown children.

Location: Handley Library Robinson Auditorium

Author Event: Peter Heerwagen

Author Event: Peter Heerwagen – From Farm to Factory and Beyond

From Farm to Factory . . . and Beyond covers the economic history of the Northern Shenandoah Valley, from 1720 to 2020. Author Peter Heerwagen emphasizes the important role the Northern Shenandoah Valley’s strategic location and 300 years of infrastructure improvements played in its economic development. Read fresh perspectives on how the region’s leaders responded to outside competitive forces by building a diversified economy that benefits from its proximity to the rapidly growing metro Washington, D.C.

Author Event: Nancy Spannaus

Author Event: Nancy Spannaus – Defeating Slavery: Hamilton’s American System Showed the Way

Slavery is not in America’s DNA. Nancy Spannaus argues that the crucial factor was the abandonment of the economic principles of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton envisioned creating an agroindustrial nation, which could only be built by eliminating the slave system. When Jefferson, and then Andrew Jackson, undermined and crushed Hamilton’s program, they put the nation on the path to war. Meet author Nancy Spannaus and hear more about this troubling story.

Author Event: Candice Shipley

Author Event: Candy-Momma – Kadee’s Kitchen and Lacey’s Room
This book is an all-American, Southern way of living with best friends, teenagers and babies, Although struggles make us stronger, you have to know how to pray your way through life. This book is written with the best intentions of coaching girls and boys alike into the research of life and how it’s made. It also is written with the utmost respect for parents or single parents and the importance of staying in tune with your teenager, to always keep their confidence level lifted high. Sweet Memories by Candice J. Shipley.

 

Author Event: Kat Spears

Kat Spears – The Tragedy of Dane Riley

Help us give a warm welcome to author Katarina Spears, with her new book, The Tragedy of Dane Riley! Kat writes realistic, edgy, honest, sometimes heartbreaking, often funny books about and for young people, and this one is no exception. Follow Dane Riley as he confronts his feelings about his father’s death, his new family, and the girl next door. Order soon or stop by on the 18th for a signed copy!

Free admission.

Book Signing: Sharon Krasny, IceMan Awakens

The Book Gallery welcomes Sharon Krasny for a book signing! From questions surrounding the mystery of Ötzi’s mummy preserved from the Neolithic Era, this debut novel explores how he got some of his sixty-one tattoos, found his life’s purpose in his copper axe, and how he lived. Iceman Awakens speaks of the timeless voices of love, destiny, and betrayal.

Author Talk: Private Confederacies

Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers

Author James J. Broomall will show the crisis of the war and a forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. The talk will also focus on returning to civilian life and how Southern veterans questioned themselves as never before, sometimes suffering from terrible self-doubt. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, Broomall argues that the crisis of defeat ultimately necessitated new forms of expression between veterans and among men and women. The talk is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase by The Winchester Book Gallery.

Author Series with Ahmed Naji

The Virginia Center for Literary Arts Author Series at Handley Regional Library continues with Egyptian novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji.

Naji will read from his work and discuss the ordeal of being imprisoned for “violating public modesty,” as a result of calculated outrage based on an excerpt from his novel Using Life.

VCLA’s Founding Director Sean Murphy and the author will discuss the ways Naji’s experiences have informed his fiction and journalism, and the ways his life has—and has not—changed since becoming a literary and political cause célèbre.

Copies of his book will be available for sale and signing. This is a free event!