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Colonel Billy Fields, that well known raconteur who presides at the
BASH dinner during the Birthday Weekend in New York City, has agreed
to conduct our first annual Pipers' auction. Feel free to donate anything
of interest to a fellow Piper. Books, of course, go without saying.
But consider another small treasure you'd be willing to part with
for a good cause. If you can't come to the picnic, let Davice know
and we'll figure out a way to get your item to the auction. 
Rashers Celebrate Birthday The Fresh Rashers of Nashville are two years old and
still going strong. We had a special birthday breakfast Friday, the
30th of May, at Noshville. Present were (in alphabetical order) Marino
Alverez, Kay Blocker, Anita and Tom Feller, Bill Mason, Dean Richardson
and Davice Sharpe. Ah,
Sweet MysteryBelow you'll find an extensive quote from the brochure
announcing this summer's series. I went to the programs last year
and cannot recommend them too highly. Each discussion leader does
research on the author, her books in general and the chosen book in
particular, prepares excellent handouts, and generates lively discussion.
You'll find the two hours go quickly and will agree, I hope, are very
well spent.
If you're reading this but cannot attend any of the sessions, make note of the books mentioned. They are carefully chosen, written by authors whose other books you may want to read and usually have at least one Sherlockian reference! "The Nashville Chapter of the Women's National Book Association presents a reading and discussion series on Women Mystery Writers (Part II) Lipscomb University Swang Center, Room 110 Mondays, 7-9 p.m. June 16 - July 28, 2003. Free and open to the public. Join us for all or part of the series. Funded in part by a grant from Humanities Tennessee. "The Women's National Book Association announces its twelfth summer reading and discussion series. This summer we continue our discussion of women mystery writers, but we focus this time on the more contemporary writers who have become a powerful presence in the genre. We strive for variety and diversity in our chosen selections, as well as excellent quality of the writing. Each session will be led by an outstanding scholar. Study guides and suggestions for further reading will be provided for more expansive study. "June 16: Sharyn McCrumb SHE WALKS THESE HILLS. The third book in McCrumb's haunting Ballad Series explores an Appalachia where the people remain connected with their past but are not completely reconciled with it. Rich in folklore and mountain culture, the story centers around the ghost of a girl captured by the Shawnees over two hundred years before, who crosses paths with an escaped killer and a city-bred scholar, also roaming the hills with their own secrets. With Andrea Lindsey, Blackman High School.
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"June 23: Deborah Crombie A FINER END. Crombie is an exceptional stylist who explores thoroughly the emotional complexities of all her characters. In this recent book, her Scotland Yard Inspector Duncan Kincaid and his partner/lover Gemma James, explore the setting of the mythical King Arthur country, Glastonbury, in a psychological mystery that is rich in intrigue, history, romance, and New Age-ness. The unearthly mystique of the ancient captivates as the past bleeds into the present. With Alice Sanford, Hume Fogg Academic Magnet School. "No session during the week of June 30. "July 7: Ellis Peters ONE CORPSE TOO MANY. In the second book of the Brother Cadfael Chronicles, Brother Cadfael, one of the most loveable and unlikely sleuths ever introduced, meets his friend and fellow partner-in-crime, Hugh Berengar. The Welsh landscape and the English medieval history are fully fleshed out in this book and those to follow, and Peters not only gives us a chronicle of British history and monastic ritual, but she delves deeply into the human heart and the nature of evil. With Matt Hearn, Lipscomb University. "July 14: Elizabeth George WELL-SCHOOLED IN MURDER. George, another American writer who uses the British terrain for her highly literate books, probes the conflicts and values of the British class structure. Aristocratic Thomas Lynley, New Scotland Yard detective, and his partner Barbara Havers, a frumpy working-class female with a chip on her shoulder, make for one of the oddest of the odd-couple detectives. The investigation of the murder of a child sets the scene for this masterfully concocted story. With Linda Barnes, Austin Peay State University. "July 21: P.D. James SHROUD FOR A NIGHTINGALE. James, acknowledged as the Dean of detective fiction, brilliantly conceives and executes one of her most intriguing and thrilling plots in this work. In this fourth Inspector Dalgleish mystery, the character of the Inspector is fully developed as James draws us into a dark lonely nurse training school, Nightingale House, with a frightful history and a double murder to unravel. With Dennis Loyd, Lipscomb University. "July 28: Amanda Cross THE JAMES JOYCE MURDER. Noted writer, scholar, critic Carolyn Heilbrun is the creator of Kate Fansler, who is a detective from the world of academia. This book introduces the range of characters in the Cross canon and extends the formulaic boundaries of the genre to encompass a novel of ideas as well as feminist social critique. This book is for lovers of the mystery, as well as those who are not. With Steve Prewitt, Lipscomb University.
"The Lipscomb University campus is located between
Belmont Boulevard and Granny White Pike, just south of Woodmont Boulevard.
The most convenient access to campus is from interstate 65 at Harding
Place (Exit 78) or interstate I-440 at Hillsboro Road (Exit 3). Programs
are held in the Swang Center, just past the Beaman Library and to the
right of the Burton Building, if entering campus from Belmont Boulevard. "If you love to read…Discover the Women's
National Book Association! "WNBA is an organization of professional women and
men bound together by a commitment to books and reading. The group facilitates
the exchange of ideas and information about educational, professional,
and literary topics, and provides a setting for sharing common concerns
and goals related to books. Thank you for your patience in reading this information. Such programs are just one of the reasons Nashville is still known as The Athens of the South, not just Music City.
Coming next month: Reports from traveling Scholars, a report on the picnic, the results of the auction, and more! By the way, if you're part of WelcomeHolmes, our on-line discussion group, you saw that Jim Hawkins received a copy of a joke that had The Lone Ranger and Tonto in their blanket rolls out on the range one night, the L.R. asking T. what he observed, T. describing the heavens in all their glory, and the L. R. informing him that the real observation was that someone had stolen their tent. So now the T_ _ _ J _ _ _ can be renamed the Of course you've heard that the T _ _ _ (or the T _ _ _ _) J _ _ _ was voted either the first or second funniest in the world. Repeatedly.
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