Martha Waters presents TO MARRY AND TO MEDDLE at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

The Regency Vows series continues with a witty, charming, and joyful novel following a seasoned debutante and a rakish theater owner as they navigate a complicated marriage of convenience. Lady Emily Turner has been a debutante for six seasons now and should have long settled into a suitable marriage. However, due to her father’s large debts, her only suitor is the persistent and odious owner of her father’s favorite gambling house. Meanwhile, Lord Julian Belfry, the second son of a marquess, has scandalized society as an actor and owner of a theater—the kind of establishment where men take their mistresses, but not their wives. When their lives intersect at a house party, Lord Julian hatches a plan to benefit them both. With a marriage of convenience, Emily will use her society connections to promote the theater to a more respectable clientele and Julian will take her out from under the shadows of her father’s unsavory associates. But they soon realize they have very different plans for their marriage—Julian wants Emily to remain a society wife, while Emily discovers an interest in the theater. But when a fleeing actress, murderous kitten, and meddlesome friends enter the fray, Emily and Julian will have to confront the fact that their marriage of convenience comes with rather inconvenient feelings

Megan Mayhew Bergman presents HOW STRANGE A SEASON, with Jill McCorkle at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with endangered flowers to establish a small world only she can control in an attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. In these haunting stories, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. Bergman’s provocative prose asks the questions: what are we leaving behind for our descendants to hold, and what price will they pay for our mistakes?

Jeffrey Beam presents VERDANT, with David Need at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

Reminiscent of Eastern Bhakti love poetry, and Western Troubadour and Green Man traditions, Verdant recounts a mid-life passage within a shadowed natural landscape of intense physical and spiritual longing. At the age of 42, queer poet Jeffery Beam fell in love with a younger man, threatening his then 15-year relationship. These poems were born of that spiritual alchemical blaze and its substantial healing power. The poet-lover’s sacred quest through heartbreak, suffering, grief, and regret, progresses ultimately to a joyful ecstatic reunion with the Beloved Divine. A mini-essay, “Don’t Forget Love: Sacred Longing’s Dark Project”, further illuminates the actual, mythological, and spiritual origins of the poems, and describes the poet’s lifetime search through experience, teachings, and literature, to a condition in which Desire and Love enrich instead of subsuming the Self

2nd Annual Found It! Chatham Rabbit Hunt

Downtown Pittsboro 9 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Gather your family, your BFFs, or go it alone on this scavenger hunt for six (6) rabbit sculptures embellished by local artists that are hidden outside along Hillsboro Street and in the immediate vicinity. Find four (4) of them and take a selfie with each rabbit sculpture. (Please leave the sculpture where you find it.) The first 25 people to show selfies to the Welcome Center attendant at 37 Hillsboro Street will get a $10 voucher to redeem at participating downtown businesses. Every one who plays gets entered into the raffle to win one of the rabbit sculptures. To increase your chances of winning, purchase raffle tickets for $5 each at the Welcome Center.

Palm Sunday at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church

Pittsboro Presbyterian Church 95 East Street, Pittsboro, NC

Join us this Sunday at 11am as we kick off Holy Week with Palm Sunday. PPC is proud to have palm fronds from Eco-Palms. Not only are they sustainably grown, Eco-Palm harvesters receive a higher price, which improves their income and gives their families financial stability.

Reclamation Pop-Up Market

Reclamation Home Furnishings 136 Fayetteville Street, Suite F, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Reclamation will be hosting a unique outdoor vintage and artisan market with beverages, a food truck and an eclectic mix of some of the best vintage and artisan vendors around. Come enjoy the laid back, fun-day Sunday vibe in The SOCO District behind The Mod in downtown Pittsboro. This event is Sunday April 10th from 12-5pm. Family fun and free event! Please park in public parking spaces only, parking near the store will be limited, look for the "Market" signs!

Laura Whitfield presents FAITH, FAILURE AND SOLID GROUND at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

A coming-of-age memoir that takes readers from North Carolina’s Outer Banks to disco-era New York City and home again, Untethered follows Laura Whitfield as she fumbles her way through young adulthood, learning along the way that you sometimes have to fall hard a few times before you land where you’re meant to be.

PBA Member Meeting Apr 2022

The Root Cellar 35 SUTTLES ROAD, PENGUIN PLACE, Pittsboro, NC

At Forest Hall in Chatham Marketplace.

Alan Shapiro presents PROCEED TO CHECK OUT, with Matthew Buckley Smith at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

Note--the image says April 7, but this event IS scheduled for April 14. Alan Shapiro’s fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious place in a world dominated by the ever-accelerating pace of technological innovation, political disruption, personal loss, and racial strife. These poems take on fundamental subjects—like the nature of time and consciousness and how or why we become who we are—but Shapiro presses them into becoming urgent and timely. Employing idiomatic range and formal variety, Shapiro’s poems move through recurring dreams, the coercions of childhood, and the mysterious connections of mind and matter, pleasure and memory. They meet an abiding need to find empathy and understanding in even the most challenging places—amid disaffection, public discord, and estrangement. His grasp of contemporary life—in all its insidious violence and beauty—is distinct, comprehensive, and profound.

Shiitake Mushroom Inoculation Class Fundraiser

Quiltmaker Cafe

We had so much fun, we've decided to add another class! Join The Quiltmaker Café for a Shiitake Mushroom Inoculation Workshop REGISTER NOW: https://thequiltmakercafe.org/shiitakemushroomclass/ WHEN: April 23, 2022 (Rain Date: May 7th) TIME: 10:00am – 1:00pm WHERE: 1197 Green Level Road, Apex NC 27523 DONATION: $75 donation per person, maximum 12 participants Learn how to inoculate your own logs with Shiitake Mushrooms! Take home three inoculated logs with a soaking bucket to harvest your own mushrooms at home. Please note: Inoculated logs will not be ready to harvest for 5-12 months. Check out photos from our last event at https://thequiltmakercafe.org/fundraising/ ALL proceeds from this event will go toward The Quiltmaker Café, a non-profit pay-what-you-can café with the mission of providing community and healthy meals to all, regardless of means. Donations are TAX-DEDUCTABLE. Questions? Contact info@thequiltmakercafe.org

$75.00

Let’s Resin with Molds at The Creative Goat

The Creative Goat 984 Thompson Street Suite F, Pittsboro, NC

The first class is to get you started into the world of resin. Since resin can be tricky and it's not a cheap product, its best to learn and try avoiding expensive mistakes. Learn how to use two-part resin with the easy, proven methods of an artist with resin experience. You will be amazed with how you can use resin as a quick and simple way to make unique items. By the end of this class, you will feel confident you have the skills and knowledge to make your own distinctive resin goodies to add to your collection, give to others or even sell!

Doris Betts Book Club at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church

Pittsboro Presbyterian Church 95 East Street, Pittsboro, NC

Last Tuesday of every month at 11 am Fellowship Hall Join us for the Doris Betts Book Club meeting for a lively discussion of this month’s book. How does it work? Group members select books, both fiction and nonfiction, with themes and challenges that draw us to consider the role of faith and spirituality in our lives. Didn’t finish the book? (or even read it?!) Come anyway and enjoy the fellowship, conversation and intellectual stimulation. Have a book you’ve read that you’d love to discuss? Come and propose it to the group! We look forward to seeing you there. April 26, 2022 “Daisy Miller” by Henry James Led by JoAnne Robb Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller “lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision.”

T.Kingfisher presents NETTLE & BONE at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

Marra never wanted to be a hero. As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an uncaring throne. But her sister wasn’t so fortunate—and after years of silence, Marra is done watching her suffer at the hands of a powerful and abusive prince. Seeking help for her rescue mission, Marra is offered the tools she needs, but only if she can complete three seemingly impossible tasks: build a dog of bones, sew a cloak of nettles, and capture moonlight in a jar But, as is the way in tales of princes and witches, doing the impossible is only the beginning. Hero or not—now joined by a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother, an enigmatic gravewitch, and her fowl familiar—Marra might finally have the courage to save her sister and topple a throne.

Roy Hoffman presents THE PROMISE OF THE PELICAN, with Elaine Neil Orr at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

At once a literary crime novel and an intergenerational family drama, The Promise of the Pelican is set in the multicultural South, where justice might depend on the color of your skin and your immigration status. Hank Weinberg is a modern-day Atticus Finch, recently retired as a defense attorney in Mobile, Alabama, and a Holocaust survivor, who fled the Nazis as a young child. With his daughter in rehab, he's now taking care of his special needs grandson. Mourning his dead wife, spending mornings fishing on the pier with other octogenarians, he passes the rest of his days watching over his sweet grandson with the help of Lupita, a young Honduran babysitter. When her brother Julio, an undocumented immigrant, is accused of murder, Hank must return to the courtroom to defend him while also trying to save his daughter and grandson's life from spinning out of control. The Promise of the Pelican takes its title from the legend that a pelican will pierce its own breast for blood to feed its starving chicks, a metaphor for one old man who risks all to save the vulnerable.

First Sunday, May 2022

Downtown Pittsboro 9 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Come out and enjoy a bit of Pittsboro's downtown charm. This family-friendly event is free to attend. Artisans, non-profits, and local businesses will be out and about as we enjoy some sweet treats. Just a few of the downtown businesses that are usually open on First Sunday: Pittsboro Toys French Connections LiquidAmbar Gallery and Gifts Edwards Antiques Reclamation Would you like to be a vendor at First Sunday? Please fill out an application.

Local on Lorax

The Plant at Lorax Lane 220 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro, United States

The bright hues of Spring bring to mind two things: the promise of farmers’ fields found nearby abundant with fresh growth, and the renewed sense of creativity for local artists of all genres. In Pittsboro, small farms and a robust creative culture is a way of life. Help us celebrate this good life with a pop-up dinner that has a super-local twist. We've gathered area farmers, chefs, restaurants, craft beverages, and visual and performing artists for a good time. Join us for “Local on Lorax: A Farm & Art Dinner” on Sunday, May 1st, 5-8pm outdoors at The Plant, 192 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro NC. A limited number of vegetarian entrees are available. Email Greg@39westcatering.com to request your vegetarian entree.