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2019
D.G. Martin is host of UNC-TV’s “North Carolina Bookwatch,”
the state’s premier literary series.
A graduate of Davidson College and Yale Law School and a former Green Beret, Martin practiced law in Charlotte for 20 years before joining the University of North Carolina, where he served as Vice President for Public Affairs and chief legislative liaison. Since his retirement he has served in interim leadership positions at UNC-Pembroke, North Carolina Central University, Trust for Public Land, Triangle Land Conservancy, North Carolina’s Clean Water Management Trust Fund, and as President of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund. About 40 North Carolina newspapers carry his weekly newspaper column that features books, politics, and related topics. In May 2008 Wingate University awarded him an honorary degree. He and Harriet have two children and four grandchildren. His son Grier Martin serves in the North Carolina House of Representative.
Want to eat like the locals? D. G. Martin has spent years traveling the major roadways of North Carolina, on the lookout for community, local history, and, of course, a good home-cooked meal. In North Carolina's Roadside Eateries, D. G. is your personal tour guide to more than 100 notable local roadway haunts that serve not only as places to eat but also as fixtures of their communities.
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Built in 1883, this elegant home contains Italiante influences with a polychrome slate roof. The exterior is painted in the original colors of Downing Straw, Rookwood Green, and Indian red. The downstairs interior has been largely restored using reproduction Victorian wallpapers. The current homeowners, Jewel and Randy Sauls, purchased this elegant structure in 2000.
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Previous Events
2018
The former home of Conway and Lew Rose
(sold in 2006 to George and Dawn McNamara)
Designed in 1961 by the visionary of the Walnut Creek community, Mr. Rose decommissioned and repurposed two plantation homes to include old charm and history in their home on the point. From 100 year old hardwood floors to winding staircases, a library overlooking the rose garden and lake, and formals with fireplaces, this 8,000 square foot stately, gabled home has an old soul and a story of its own to tell.
Featured Speakers:
Therese Anne Fowler
Author of the New York Times bestselling novel, Z: A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald and 2018 novel, A Well Behaved Woman: A Vanderbilt Novel.
( https://thereseannefowler.wordpress.com)
John Kessel
Renowned science fiction author and creative writing professor at NC State, Kessel is the author of the novels: Pride and Prometheus, The Moon and the Other, Good News from Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, and in collaboration with James Patrick Kelly, Freedom Beach.
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2017
Home of Dawn and Michael McDonald
(Former Cobb Family Residence)
Featured Speaker:
Diane Chamberlain
Diane Chamberlain is the New York Times, USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of 25 novels published in more than twenty languages. Influenced by her former career as a social worker and psychotherapist, she writes suspenseful stories that touch both heart and mind. (
*Click on the image to learn more about featured author, Diane Chamberlain.
2016
Home of Jim and Barbara Ann Vinson
Featured Speaker:
North Carolina author, Marjorie Hudson
Hudson’s stories, essays, and poems explore themes of loss, conflict,
and a yearning for community deeply threaded through
American history and contemporary life.
2015
Home of David and Bethany Perry
Featured Speakers:
North Carolina Author, John Hart
Hart, a native of North Carolina, is best known for his thrilling legal novels featuring various North Carolina cities.
Distinguished Poet, Leonard D. Moore
An accomplished poet, essayist, writer and playwright, Mr. Moore is also a respected English professor at the University of Mount Olive. Also, he founded the Carolina African American Writers Collective, and was co-founder of Washington Street Writers Group.
2014
Historic Faison-Thomas Home of
Betty Duncan and Dave Ham
Featured Speakers:
Author, Michael Malone
Mr. Malone is a native of Durham who is best known for his novels and his work on the ABC Daytime drama "One LIfe to Live."
North Carolina Author and Poet, Ruth Moose
Originally from Albemarle, North Carolina, Ms. Moose brings an authentic Southern voice to her characters. The humor and tragedy of everyday life resonates in the characters and tales she presents to readers.
2013
Home of Judith McMillen
Featured Speakers:
North Carolina Poet Laureate, Joseph Bathanti
Known for both his fiction and nonfiction works Bathanti demonstrates his brilliance and love of people, places and things by weaving across literary lines to create memorable tales.
North Carolina author, Wiley Cash
Cash breathes life into his characters by combining elements of beauty and tragedy, innocence and evil within his entrawling stories inspired by his experiences of growing up in North Carolina.
2012
The Farm at Salem Church
Featured Speakers:
Author, Margaret Maron
Inspired by her love of her native state and a desire to write about current experiences, Maron has created works feartured in various courses in contemporary Southern literature in North Carolina.
North Carolina Poet and Musician, Shelby Stephenson
Stephenson's poetic voice resonates both in his poetry and music. He captures the brilliance of his experiences and those around him
through tales of farm life.
North Carolina and Goldsboro native, Emily Weil
Ms. Weil, an avid historian, is inspired by the community around her and strives to preserve that history for future generations.
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