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Barbara Kingsolver takes Flight with a New Novel

Because much acclaimed writer Barbara Kingsolver lives in our region, a new novel by her is a cause for celebration.

In This Issue

• Barbara Kingsolver: The Interview Find out what motivates Barbara Kingsolver to write and more?
• Barbara Kingsolver: Awards The following is a list of awards bestowed upon Barbara Kingsolver:
• Book Review: Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver has started interspersing epic, researched novels (like Poisonwood Bible and recently The Lacuna) with regional works that don't require years of travel and extensive library or Internet research.
• Arts for Youth Spotlight: Alex Vanburen Alex Vanburen is living his childhood dream of being Young Tarzan on the Barter Theatre stage.
• Backcountry Makers: John Erhart Rose John Erhart Rose probably made the tall case for Valentine Baugh's clock featured in last month's article, but we're sure he made the elaborately-carved secretary seen here because he signed it.
• Ararat sculpture dedicated in memory of Merle Dickert The sculpture "Ararat," by Dr. Marvin Tadlock, professor of art at Virginia Intermont College, is on the second year of a two-year long exhibition as part of the Art In Public Places competition and exhibition in downtown Bristol.
• "Porterfield" finds a Permanent Home Sunday, Aug. 26 the Virginia Highlands Festival presented this year's signature art piece as a permanent loan to the Barter Theatre.

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• VI's Champagne Chosen For "Road" Exhibition Joe Champagne, Virginia Intermont professor of photography and digital imaging, is one of 33 artists selected for an international photography exhibition in Asheville, N.C.
• Hollywood & Halloween Colin Clive as an eyes wide — wide — open Henry Frankenstein twisted about his laboratory like a political lie in the wind. He had clearly lost his mind. "IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!" said Clive as Henry Frankenstein.
• The Lambsburg Community Center Jam an Affiliated Venue of The Crooked Road The Lambsburg Community Center Jam in Lambsburg, Va., was presented with a banner acknowledging this venue's recent inclusion as a Crooked Road Affiliated Venue.
• Look for NOVEMBER print edition Expect your NOVEMBER A! Magazine on Wednesday, OCT. 30, 2012. And plan now to submit press releases and to advertise in the DECEMBER 2012 print edition of A! Magazine for the Arts.
• Real Women Pick Pink Saturday Come Saturday, downtown Bristol will be a sea of pink breast cancer-fighting girl power, as female-led bands take the stage in the city's first Real Women Pick Pink music festival.
• Music in the Castle "Awesome" It's an epic battle between forces, a conflict of good and evil. The music is loud and intense as the love story between a shining knight, played by a trombone player, and an evil force, played by a member of the color guard, plays out on the field at the
• "The Singing Chef" Cooks for Appreciative Crowd With a laugh, Anthony "The Singing Chef" Lo Russo admits that he sets a pretty high bar for his performances – which combine fine cooking with operatic singing.
• Theatre Bristol, YMCA and King College Partner to offer Theater to Children As she waited to begin her theater class inside Theatre Bristol, 9-year-old Lauren Eckley beamed when asked why she enjoys spending several of her after-school hours each week learning to act and perform.
• Museum welcomes New Studio Artists The William King Museum: Center for Art and Cultural Heritage welcomes two new studio artists: Pamela Hagy and Tracy Ference.
• Construction Launch Celebrated Oct. 9 for Glade Spring Artisan Center A non-profit organization devoted to economic development in Glade Spring will launched construction on a new artisan center in the Glade Spring Town Square Tuesday, Oct. 9.
• Gather Round for a Story — or Maybe a Lie Kevin Kling wants to tell you a story. Same goes for Donald Davis, Carmen Deedy, Andy Offutt Irwin and Judith Black. Oh, you can put Gay Ducey and John McCutcheon on that list of tale-spinners, too.
• Birthplace of Tennessee Ernie Ford receives State Recognition BRISTOL, Tenn. — The Anderson Street birthplace of legendary country singer Tennessee Ernie Ford received state recognition Thursday when a Tennessee Historical Commission marker was unveiled in a ceremony at the one-level house.
• Pickin' Porch party celebrates Documentary Release BRISTOL, Tenn. – Photographer Chris Rector spent more than a year interviewing experts on Bristol's musical heritage.
• Indy film producers using Southwest Virginia as a backdrop An attorney, two high school buddies and an aspiring actor decide to make a movie.
• ETSU's Dr. Jesse Graves named Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year Winner Dr. Jesse Graves has been named the recipient of the Appalachian Writers Association book of the year award in poetry.
• Kentucky's Musical Roadtrip Highway 23 rumbles across the carved cliffs of Kentucky, where coal has been ripped out of mountaintops at Prestonsburg, and manmade valleys have become the site of a golf course and luxury homes.
• JP Parsons finds Musical Inspiration in the Everyday A pack of Pall Malls and a Pabst Blue Ribbon awaited the hands of JP Parsons on a recent warm Bristol afternoon.
• Doyle Lawson in IBMA Hall of Fame Please make welcome, Doyle Lawson, newest member of the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.