COMING EVENTS

May 1: Cathy Pickens,  7:00 p.m.

May 31: Family Literacy Fair, 11-2, Library Front Lawn

September 27: Fall into Fun Festival, Sun City Carolina Lakes

Volume 5, Issue 1                                   A book is a friend.  American proverb                                                                Spring 2008

 

  Cathy Pickens, author of the popular Southern Fried Mystery series, will be guest speaker at the Spring meeting of the Friends of the Library, Thursday, May 1 at 7:00 p.m. 

              Cathy Pickens grew up in Walhalla, and the southern flavor of her writing is unmistakable. She also lived for a time in Lancaster. She has been, under different names, a lawyer, a business professor, a university provost, a clog-dancing coach, a church organist / choir director, and a typist.

The first Avery Andrews novel Southern Fried won the 2003 St. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic Award for Best New Traditional Mystery.  Romantic Times BookClub magazine reviewers named it one of the five “Best First Mysteries” for 2004.  Her stories are set in South Carolina, the first in a town similar to her hometown and the second, Done Gone Wrong, in Charleston.  In Hog Wild, Avery attracts the attention of a poison-pen letter writer and a widow whose husband has used his tombstone to accuse her of murder.  In the latest, Hush My Mouth, Avery wrestles with a cold-case murder and an itinerant group of ghost hunters. 

Cathy has also written a mystery walking tour of Charleston, South Carolina: Charleston
Mysteries
(History Press 2007).

Cathy is a frequent mystery convention panelist, speaking on topics ranging from Southern mysteries to classic true crime stories to the criminal use of poisons. The most profound influences on her life have been her family, her faith, Nancy Drew, and Perry Mason. Forced to move to “big cities” to support herself , first as a lawyer and then as a professor, she found the only way to return to the comfortable familiarity of her childhood was by moving Avery Andrews back home and chronicling her exploits.

Cathy has a B.S. degree in financial management from Clemson University, and a J.D.
degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law.  Her family has lived in South
Carolina for almost 300 years, but she currently lives in “exile” over the border in Charlotte, North Carolina.  She is the Wireman Professor of Business at Queens University of Charlotte and is a
member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and the South Carolina Bar. 

  The program is free and open to the public. Cathy will lead an informal discussion of her work and autograph copies of her books, which will be available for purchase. For more information,
contact Richard Band at 803-285-1502 or
richardband@comporium.net.

Donations Continue for Del Webb Library

Lancaster County Partners for Youth has donated $20,000 to the Del Webb Library to help
students who need a quiet place to study. The donation will provide two study rooms.  Each room will have a computer and workspace for private use or with a tutor.

According to Executive Director Sharon Novinger, the study rooms will give the Foundation a chance to extend its mission in the Indian Land community.

“We are delighted to help the new library in this way,” Novinger said. “Our board is committed to
 projects that will help children improve their educational opportunities.”

Partners for Youth is an independent, non-profit partnership dedicated to elevating and
enriching the children and youth of Lancaster County .

The Del Webb Library has received $381,000 in donations from foundations, businesses and
individuals. The Library Board seeks to raise $400,000 more to completely furnish the library, scheduled for completion by the end of the year.

For more information go to the library’s website (www.lanclib.org) and follow the Del Webb Library at Indian Land link.