Charm Offensive, Ross White's debut poetry collection, explores the space between Dickinson's directive to tell the truth slant and the universal reality of seeing the truth slant without knowing it. Charting the ways that tenderness can resolve into dissonance and uncertainty can resolve into transcendence, Charm Offensive crackles with the dangers of being alive and the joys of remaining defiant. At turns playful and surreal, exuberant and somber, these poems urge readers to find something new to trust in the world. Ross White is the author of Charm Offensive, winner of the Sexton Prize for Poetry, and three chapbooks, Valley of Want, How We Came Upon the Colony and The Polite Society. He is the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, where he hosts The Chapbook, a podcast devoted to chapbooks. He teaches creative writing, podcasting, publishing, and grammar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Tin House, and The Southern Review, among others. With Matthew Olzmann, he edited Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series. He also has a boutique design firm, Spock & Associates, and a weekly trivia show and podcast, Trivia Escape Pod.

🗓️ SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ On Saturday, September 30th from 8-3pm, we are having our largest sale of the year! Here are the details of Checkerboard Days: • All animal feeds 40# and heavier will be $5 off each bag with no limits on how many you can buy! • We will also have a grocery sized paper bag available for anything that you can fit in it will be 10% off! • There will be a few drawings on 12 free bags of animal feed. All you have to do is make a purchase and you’ll be entered automatically • @pittsboropet will have a 25% off coupon on one item when you make a purchase that is only good for Saturday, September 30th • We will also be serving Sandra’s Bakery Doughnuts in the morning and ice cream in the afternoon A few exclusions: • All feed must be picked up and paid for on September 30th • No preorders, deliveries, holding or rain checks will be offered • The sale is only good for one day

Enjoy shopping for local products & handmade crafts during the beautiful month of September! The market will be hosting visiting local vendors, along with our own amazing craft vendors. Check out the list of local artists and craftspeople who will be attending the market in September!

Are you, your family and your friends ready to make some memories and have some fall fun, Huckleberry style? Fall Festival starts September 30 and runs every Saturday and Sunday through October 30. We are open from 10 to 6 on Saturday and 1 to 6 on Sunday. Our last ticket is sold one hour before closing. One admission price gives you access to all the fun. We sell our pumpkins, fall decorations, refreshments, and merchandise separately to keep our admission prices low. We have a corn maze, a real pumpkin patch (cut your own pumpkin right off the vine while they last!), a cotton patch, and lots of old-timey games and activities including a mini Field of Dreams. We sell pumpkins of all sizes as well as corn stalks, gourds, and hay bales. We are conveniently located on Hwy 64 between Pittsboro and Siler City, just 30 minutes from Cary, Apex, Chapel Hill, Durham, and Greensboro. It’s an easy drive over a shimmering lake and rushing river, through beautiful rolling country and past farmland complete with horses, cows, and red barns. What to Bring Farm-friendly clothes; closed toe shoes suggested Weather appropriate attire A sense of adventure and fun A camera so you capture the prettiest country view ever! Weekend events schedule

The Triangle Parade of Homes returns starting September 30th-October 1st for three back-to-back weekends - including October 6-8, 13-15. This year, Chatham Park is featuring 13 beautiful homes from 12-5pm! 🏠 Stop by our Information Center to pick up a map! See Chatham Park's 2023 Parade map at https://bit.ly/3PK6sv8 📍 500 Vine Parkway, Pittsboro, NC

The Pittsboro Presbyterian Church invites you to join them at Jordan Lake on Sunday, October 1, at Seaforth Shelter #9.

First Sunday is October 1!!! We have Jeanne Rhea and Lisa Yerby! Everyone is invited!

Check out the events at BMC Brewing!

Join us Monday, October 2nd for a night of music and dancing with the NC Reveler's Orchestra! Complete with a catered dinner by 39 West Catering. Secure your spot for an enchanting evening before it's too late. Visit our events link on our website for more details and a link to purchase tickets on Eventbrite.

John M. Crowell, with NY Life, is a sponsor of the Veteran's Appreciation Golf Tournament to be held at the Chapel Ridge Golf Club on November 11. Please contact him to be a tournament sponsor.

Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our upcoming performers 10/4- Dave Quick 10/11- GLK Trio 10/18- Steve Hobbs Trio 10/25- Lauren Meehan 11/1- Dave Quick Trio 11/8- Lauren Meehan 11/15- Tony Galiani 11/22- Steve Hobbs Trio 11/29- GLK Trio

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed, power, and American complicity set in Haiti. Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup d’état leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon his idyllic, beachfront scuba business. With the rise of a brutal military dictatorship and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country’s most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in the chaos–and others are just looking to make it through another day. Desperate for money—and survival—Matt teams up with his best friend and business partner Alix Variel, the adventurous only son of a socially prominent Haitian family. They set their sights on legendary shipwrecks that have been rumored to contain priceless treasures off a remote section of Haiti’s southern coast. Their ambition and exploration of these disastrous wrecks come with a cascade of ill-fated incidents—one that involves Misha, Alix’s erudite sister, who stumbles onto an arms-trafficking ring masquerading as a U.S. government humanitarian aid office, and rookie CIA case officer Audrey O’Donnell, who finds herself doing clandestine work on an assignment that proves to be more difficult and dubious than she could have possibly imagined. Devil Makes Three’s depiction of blood politics, the machinations of power, and a country in the midst of upheaval is urgently and insistently resonant. This new novel is sure to cement Ben Fountain’s reputation as one of the twenty-first century’s boldest and most perceptive writers. Ben Fountain’s work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction, and a Whiting Writers Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. […]

Jazz Nights are select Thursdays from 7-9 pm on the Philip H. Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons. Lawn opens at 6 pm. October Jazz Night Thursday, October 5 Triangle Jazz Orchestra

The Triangle Parade of Homes returns starting September 30th-October 1st for three back-to-back weekends - including October 6-8, 13-15. This year, Chatham Park is featuring 13 beautiful homes from 12-5pm! 🏠 Stop by our Information Center to pick up a map! See Chatham Park's 2023 Parade map at https://bit.ly/3PK6sv8 📍 500 Vine Parkway, Pittsboro, NC

Ticket sales are open!! Join us for our Fall Fundraiser at Huckleberry Trail Farm! We will have great food, drinks and games for the whole family! Get tickets at the link below.

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the management of his property, including Choctaw Academy, a boarding school for Indigenous men and boys on the grounds of the estate. This meant that Chinn, although enslaved herself, oversaw Blue Spring's slave labor force and had substantial control over economic, social, financial, and personal affairs within the couple's world. Chinn's relationship with Johnson was unlikely to have been consensual since she was never manumitted. What makes Chinn's life exceptional is the power that Johnson invested in her, the opportunities the couple's relationship afforded her and her daughters, and their community's tacit acceptance of the family—up to a point. When the family left their farm, they faced steep limits: pews at the rear of the church, burial in separate graveyards, exclusion from town dances, and more. Johnson's relationship with Chinn ruined his political career and Myers compellingly demonstrates that it wasn't interracial sex that led to his downfall but his refusal to keep it—and Julia Chinn—behind closed doors. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers is the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of history and gender studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Claude Clegg is currently the chair of the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) at UNC-Chapel Hill. He also holds the Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professorship in AAAD and the UNC Department of History. Professor Clegg’s research and teaching focus on African American history, US and southern history, presidential history, and the history of American social movements. He is […]

Friday Movies Each Friday night (except July) we’ll feature a live concert or movie on the Phil H. Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn). Food + beverage available for purchase. No outside alcohol is allowed to be brought inside the venue. All movies start at 8:30 pm (unless otherwise indicated below). Event lawn opens one hour before movie start time. October 6 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Drive-In Movie) October 20 Hocus Pocus 2 (Drive-In Movie) Location: MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn) near 51 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC 27312