Gods of Noonday - A White Girl's African Life

 

 

 

 

 

Gods of Noonday/The Tour

My parents and me, left, at a wedding, Eku area, 1963.

 

Elaine Neil Orr will lecture on the twin influences in her young lifeAmerican medical missions and Nigerian culture. As an adult, her battle with her own life-threatening illness led to a healing process that took her not only to Duke Medical Center but back to West Africa.

 

2003

 

December 9/Tuesday/7:30 p.m.

CHAPEL HILL, NC
Branch's Bookstore
243 South Elliott Road, Village Plaza
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Angela Davis-Gardner to introduce
Tel:  919-968-9110  Fax: 919-968-9140 (contact Daniel)

   

December 1/Monday/1:00 p.m.

WINSTON-SALEM, NC
Wake Forest University Campus Bookstore
Book Signing

 

November 30/Sunday/3 p.m.

WINSTON-SALEM, NC

Border's Books & Music
252 South Stratford Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
Store Phone: 336-727-8834
Tel:  919-968-9031  Fax:  919-929-4163 (contact Melanie Gray)

 

November 14/Friday

CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY
2 p.m. Campbellsville University
1 University Drive
Campbellsville, KY 42718
Class on "Southern Literature"
 

4 p.m. Reading and talk
 

6 p.m. Dinner by invitation, followed by book-signing
Tel: 270-789-5214 (contact Shannon Thomas)

 

November 13/Thursday/7 p.m.

LOUISVILLE, KY

Border's Books & Music (formerly Hawley-Cooke Booksellers)
27 Shelbyville Road Plaza
Louisville, KY 40207
Tel: 502-893-0133 (contact Melissa Bernstrom)

 

November 6/Thursday

BIRMINGHAM, AL

12 noon Luncheon, Samford University, Faculty Club
 

3 p.m. Address at the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU)
National Headquarters Building, Mallory Boardroom
100 Missionary Ridge
 

7 p.m. Shades Crest Baptist Church, informal gathering
Birmingham, AL
Tel: 205-991-8100 (contact David George)

 

November 2/Sunday/2 p.m.

GAINESVILLE, FL

Reading and Radio via Goering's Bookstore
3433 W. University Avenue
Gainesville, FL 32607
Tel: 352-378-0363 (contact Tom Ryder)

 

October 30/Thursday/7 p.m.

RALEIGH, NC

Café Luna
Address to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) Advisory Board
North Carolina State University

 

October 26/Sunday/4 p.m.

CHARLOTTE, NC
“A Novello Evening” Novello Festival of Books
Main Library / Francis Auditorium
310 N. Tryon Street
Tel: 704-336-2074 (contact Rita Rouse, Franklin County Public Library)

 

October 25/Saturday/3 p.m.

CHARLOTTE, NC

(Little Professor) Park Road Books
4139 Park Road Shopping Center
Tel: 704-525-9239 (contact Sally Brewster)

 

October 24/Friday/7 p.m.

ASHEVILLE, NC
Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe
55 Haywood Street
Tel: 828-254-6734 (contact Linda Barrett-Knopp)
info@malaprops.com

 

October 22/Wednesday/8 p.m.

RALEIGH, NC

North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Talley Student Center
NCSU Scholars Dinner Address

 

October 15/Wednesday/6:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS, TN

First Baptist Church

Tel: 901-794-1782 (contact Margaret Martin)

 

October  14/Tuesday/6 p.m.

JACKSON, TN
Davis-Kidd (Jackson) Bookstore
869 North Parkway
Tel: 731-661-9775 (contact Andrea Bell)

 

October 12/Sunday/2-3:30 p.m.

NASHVILLE, TN
Family Memoir Panel, Southern Festival of Books

Tel: 615-320-7001, Ext. 12 (contact Serenity Gerbman)

 

October 9/Thursday

BLYTHEVILLE, AR
A day in Blytheville, AR with
Mary Gay Shipley, owner of That Bookstore
316 W. Main Street
Tel: 870-763-3333
 

10:50 a.m. Arkansas Northeastern College

Speak to World Civics classes, other student body, faculty, community
Tel: 870-762-1020 (contact Frances Moore)

 

12 noon Rotary Club luncheon meeting (as Ms. Shipley’s guest speaker)
Back to bookstore for informal visit book signing, meet and greet
 

October 4/Saturday/3 p.m.

CHAPEL HILL, NC
Borders Books Chapel Hill
1807 Chapel Hill Boulevard
Tel: 919-968-9031 (contact Melanie Gray)

 

October 2/Thursday/7 p.m.

WILMINGTON, NC
Bristol Books
1908 Eastwood Road, Suite 116
Tel: 910-256-4490 (contact Nicki Leone)

 

October 1/Wednesday/6:30 p.m.

RICHMOND, VA

The Fountain Bookstore
1312 E. Cary Street
Tel: 804-788-1594 (contact Boo Smythe or Kelly Justice)

 

September 27/Saturday/11 a.m.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

New Dominion Books
404 E. Main Street
(on ‘the downtown mall’)
Tel: 434-295-2552 (contact Carol Troxell or Lou Bolan)

 

September 26/Friday/7 p.m.

LYNCHBURG, VA

Barnes & Noble Lynchburg
4024-C Wards Road
Tel: 434-239-7207 (contact Jane Kreger)

 

September 25/Thursday/7 p.m.

ROANOKE, VA

Cantos Booksellers
18 East Campbell Avenue
Tel: 540-342-0100 (contact Rob Clark)

 

September 19 - 21

JEKYLL ISLAND, GA
 “Moveable Feast” Saturday 20th, 6 p.m.
Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA)
Jekyll Island Convention Center
Tel: 800-331-9617 (contact Wanda Jewell)

 

September 17/Wednesday/7 p.m.

DURHAM, NC
The Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth Street
Tel: 919-286-2700 (contact Tom Campbell)

 

September 6/Saturday/11 a.m.

PITTSBORO, NC
McIntyre’s Books
2000 Fearrington Village Center
Tel: 919-545-5727 (contact Sarah Carr)

 

September 4/Thursday/7 p.m.

RALEIGH, NC

Quail Ridge Books – Book Launch Party
3522 Wade Avenue
Tel: 919-828-7912 (contact Rene Martin & Nancy Olson)

 

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