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Important Schedule Updates
The Historic Home is now closed for the 2023 Hurricane Season and will reopen in November. Our office/Writing Center downtown also has changed hours through Labor Day.
12th Annual Poetry & BBQ Highlights
Jim May, Chelsea Rathburn, David Kirby, and Barbara Hamby visit Laura’s house after the 12th Annual Poetry & BBQ, April 22, 2023 ‘Tying the Knot: When Poets Marry” featured two married couples – Jim May & Chelsea Rathburn and David…
Meet our Summer Camp Teachers
Annmarie White and Anne Powell are the dynamic duo who taught our Write in the Middle Camp in 2019 and they are back for a repeat performance! Anne Powell (left) has been teaching secondary-level social studies courses for the past…
Native Plants & Native People
Join us Sunday, May 7th for our final Garden program of the season. At 1pm, Janice Broda will tell us about the uses native plants have been put to in the past – and still can be today! We have…
Adult Writers Workshop
Celebrate National Poetry Month by learning the craft from two celebrated poets! Barbara Hamby and David Kirby will be in town for our 12th Annual Poetry & BBQ on April 22nd. The day before, on the 21st, they will be…