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SUMMARY:Trails and Treats
DESCRIPTION:Join Chatham Community Library and Friends of the Lower Haw for Trails and Treats on Sat\, May 2\, 10am-11am. Trails and Treats is the first statewide trail guide written by women in NC\, combining two favorite activities – hiking and trail running – with tasty treats that can top off your outdoor adventures. Authors Hollis Oberlies and Palmer McIntyre created this guidebook for people of all ages and abilities who want to plan a fun day exploring our state. They have selected hikes and runs in four general areas of the state – the mountains\, the Triad\, the Triangle\, and the Charlotte area. Often\, there is a trail near your home that will bring joy and gratitude\, and a workout if that’s your goal. The authors have included trail tips to help you plan your adventures\, as well as recommendations for some tasty local places to eat. Their book also includes some of their favorite breakfast and trail snack recipes that are easy to whip up\, tasty\, and nourishing. The authors hope this guide inspires you to try these trails and eats\, and to explore others throughout North Carolina or wherever you go! \nBecause 2026 is the 20th Anniversary of the Haw River Trail\, this event will include a brief presentation by Friends of Lower Haw River about the Haw River State Trail and Chatham County’s local gem\, the Lower Haw River State Natural Area. Friends of Lower Haw River is a member of the trail organizations Friends of Haw River State Trail and the Great Trails State Coalition. The event is free and open to the public. This program is part of the Lower Haw Presents lecture series hosted by Friends of Lower Haw River and co-sponsored by the Chatham Community Library. See more Chatham Sports Alliance Events.
URL:https://visitpittsboro.com/event/trails-and-treats/
LOCATION:Chatham Community Library\, 197 NC Hwy 87 N\, Pittsboro\, NC\, 27312\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tommy Hays\, The Marriage Bed
DESCRIPTION:Join McIntyre’s Books for Tommy Hays\, The Marriage Bed\, in conversation with Elaine Nell Orr on Sat\, May 2\, 11am-12pm. This free event takes place indoors. Free parking is available on-site. The space is wheelchair accessible. No pets allowed. Fearrington Village is part of the Chatham County Craft Beverages & Country Inns Trail. See more events at Fearrington Village. \nBOOK SUMMARY \nA poetry professor at a small college in Asheville\, NC\, Asa Flowers\, comes home one stormy evening to find his wife\, Betsy\, inexplicably distraught. As the evening goes on\, the couple ends up in a heated argument that sends Asa to sleep out in their garage apartment for the first time in twenty-five years of marriage. The next morning\, he wakes to blue sky and an altered world.    \nUnfolding over a few tense weeks and told from multiple points of view\, this novel explores how a tragedy can assume as many shapes as the people it touches. Asa finds himself reckoning with torn feelings about his marriage and confusion about how to proceed in his complicated relationships with his adult children. As he gradually absorbs revelations—so much he didn’t know or understand during his long marriage—he finds himself drawn uneasily toward a new world\, one in which he must shed much of his old identity if he is to survive and\, more important\, rededicate himself to being a father.  \nAUTHOR BIO \nTommy Hays is an acclaimed Southern writer\, whose fiction grows out of his emotional connections to places he’s lived and known—Greenville\, South Carolina; Asheville\, North Carolina; and Atlanta. His novels are The Pleasure Was Mine\, In the Family Way\, Sam’s Crossing\, and YA novel What I Came to Tell You. He has published stories\, profiles\, and book reviews in magazines\, newspapers\, and literary journals such as Redbook\, Our State\, The Atlanta Constitution\, The Charlotte Observer\, Smoky Mountain Living\, Still: The Journal\, The Chattahoochee Review\, and storySouth. The winner of many literary awards\, he is the founder and former Executive Director of the Great Smokies Writing Program\, UNC Asheville’s community writing program\, as well as Lecturer Emeritus in the Master of Liberal Arts program.
URL:https://visitpittsboro.com/event/tommy-hays-the-marriage-bed/
LOCATION:McIntyre’s Books\, 220 Market Street\, Pittsboro\, NC\, 27312\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nora Gaskin\, Lammy Loves Cubby
DESCRIPTION:Join McIntyre’s Books for Nora Gaskin\, Lammy Loves Cubby\, in conversation with Sara Johnson on Sat\, May 2\, 2pm-3pm. This free event takes place indoors. Free parking is available on-site. The space is wheelchair accessible. No pets allowed. Fearrington Village is part of the Chatham County Craft Beverages & Country Inns Trail. See more events at Fearrington Village. \nBOOK SUMMARY \nWhen crazy meets crazy\, long-suppressed passion can combust in more ways than one. Lammie Timmons got the best news of her life on a Monday morning. Cubby Tatum\, the man she had loved since she was five years old\, was coming home to Littleboro after twenty years away. Could a series of small fires that escalate have anything to do with the two reuniting? Arson investigator Maureen and self-proclaimed knight errant Joe make an equally odd couple who set out to follow the smoldering trail of clues and solve the mystery. \nAUTHOR BIO \nNora Gaskin is a lifelong resident of the Durham-Chapel Hill area. She has a bachelor’s degree in English with Honors in Creative Writing from UNC\, and a Master’s in English from the University of Washington in Seattle. She spent more than 24 years as a stockbroker and financial advisor with a major investment firm\, working in the Durham office. She retired in 2005 to focus on writing. She lives and writes in Chatham County\, inspired by her native landscape\, her husband\, and her dogs. Her favorite word is “gratitude.”
URL:https://visitpittsboro.com/event/nora-gaskin-lammy-loves-cubby/
LOCATION:McIntyre’s Books\, 220 Market Street\, Pittsboro\, NC\, 27312\, United States
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SUMMARY:Authors Event: Blood\, Bodies\, and Bollywood
DESCRIPTION:Join McIntyre’s Books for an Authors Event: Blood\, Bodies\, and Bollywood on Sat\, May 9\, 11am-12pm. This free event takes place indoors. Free parking is available on-site. The space is wheelchair accessible. No pets allowed. Fearrington Village is part of the Chatham County Craft Beverages & Country Inns Trail. See more events at Fearrington Village. \nBOOK SUMMARIES \nA Killer in the Family by Amin Ahmad: An intoxicating drama set in the world of New York City’s elite\, A Killer in the Family explores the underside of the American dream and asks\, ” What happens when you marry into a family that keeps secrets?” \nThe Star from Calcutta by Sujata Massey: A movie censor murdered\, a leading lady vanished—the glamour\, romance\, and intrigue of the beginnings of Bollywood come to vivid life in the thrilling new installment of the Perveen Mistry historical mystery series. \nAUTHOR BIOS \nAmin Ahmad was raised in India and came to the United States at the age of seventeen. He worked as an architect for many years before turning to writing. He teaches creative writing at Duke University and lives in Durham\, North Carolina\, with his family and a very mischievous cat. When he’s not writing\, he can be found on his front porch\, drinking tea and watching the world go by. \nSujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany\, grew up in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, and lives in Baltimore\, Maryland. She was a features reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun before becoming a full-time novelist. The first Perveen Mistry novel\, The Widows of Malabar Hill\, was an international bestseller and won the Agatha\, Macavity\, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. 
URL:https://visitpittsboro.com/event/authors-event-blood-bodies-and-bollywood/
LOCATION:McIntyre’s Books\, 220 Market Street\, Pittsboro\, NC\, 27312\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jayne Anne Phillips: Small Town Girls
DESCRIPTION:Join McIntyre’s Books for Jayne Anne Phillips\, Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir on Sat\, May 16\, 11am-12pm. This free event takes place indoors. Free parking is available on-site. The space is wheelchair accessible. No pets allowed. Fearrington Village is part of the Chatham County Craft Beverages & Country Inns Trail. See more events at Fearrington Village. \nBOOK SUMMARY \nTender\, inviting\, sparkling with wisdom and open-heartedness\, Small Town Girls is part coming-of-age story\, part social history\, Jayne Anne Phillips’s most personal\, most accessible book yet—a love letter to the place and the people who have shaped her perceptions and her writing. \nAUTHOR BIOS \nJayne Anne Phillips is the author of Black Tickets\, Machine Dreams\, Fast Lanes\, Shelter\, MotherKind\, Lark and Termite\, Quiet Dell\, and Night Watch\, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Howard\, Bunting\, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships\, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston and New York.
URL:https://visitpittsboro.com/event/jayne-anne-phillips-small-town-girls/
LOCATION:McIntyre’s Books\, 220 Market Street\, Pittsboro\, NC\, 27312\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nancy Johnston Hall: Sweet Fields Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Join McIntyre’s Books for Nancy Johnston Hall\, Sweet Fields Beyond in conversation with Susan Ketchinr on Sat\, May 16\, 2pm-3pm. This free event takes place indoors. Free parking is available on-site. The space is wheelchair accessible. No pets allowed. Fearrington Village is part of the Chatham County Craft Beverages & Country Inns Trail. See more events at Fearrington Village. \nBOOK SUMMARY \nTHE YEAR IS 1837. When widow Louisa Evans\, with no belongings or purpose\, joins her sister and brother-in-law on a 700-mile arduous trek by wagon train from Pennsylvania\, she hopes for a fresh start. Their destination is the Black Hawk Purchase\, a wild\, unsettled expanse along the Mississippi\, soon to be called Iowa. And the journey west is only the beginning… When tragedy strikes\, Louisa and her brother-in-law\, Isaac\, must build a farm alone on virgin land\, enduring backbreaking labor\, shared grief\, and impossible moral choices. Through her unflinching journal\, Louisa records each trial in a voice both lyrical and candid\, a widow’s quiet passage from invisibility toward self-possession. \nAUTHOR BIOS \nFor her first novel\, Nancy Johnston Hall chose to write a fictionalized version of her own ancestors’ stories\, who were among the first to settle in the Blackhawk Territory—present-day Iowa. An evocative letter passed down in her family from the real Louisa Evans\, her great-great-grandmother\, inspired the literate\, introspective voice of her fictional Louisa’s journal. Because she’s happiest when she’s in her creative zone\, Nancy retired reluctantly from her career as an award-winning medical journalist and documentary filmmaker. As co-owner of a health communication company—her dream job—she wrote everything from brochures and books to television PSAs\, documentary scripts\, billboard slogans\, on and on. When she and her husband moved from Minnesota to North Carolina\, she found a new form of writing—personal essays. When she ran out of “life” to write about\, her writing group suggested she try fiction. Oh my goodness\, as her protagonist\, Louisa\, would say\, is she happy she followed their advice? Nancy now lives in the deep woods near Chapel Hill with her husband and has begun a second novel about England and Paris during the 1920 and 30s. \nSusan Ketchin is an author\, editor\, and teacher who lives in Chapel Hill. Author of The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction (University Press of Mississippi)\, essays\, and short fiction\, Ketchin has taught creative writing at Duke University and North Carolina State University. She has served as Associate Editor at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill\, fiction editor at Southern Exposure and DoubleTake Magazines\, and fiction and poetry editor of the St. Andrews Review. She is currently an editor with the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s Critique and Editing Service. Ketchin enjoys leading workshops and retreats in creative writing\, songwriting\, and publishing your works\, most recently with the Arts School in Carrboro\, NC. 
URL:https://visitpittsboro.com/event/nancy-johnston-hall-sweet-fields-beyond/
LOCATION:McIntyre’s Books\, 220 Market Street\, Pittsboro\, NC\, 27312\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brigid Washington: Salt\, Sweat\, and Steam
DESCRIPTION:Join McIntyre’s Books for Brigid Washington\, Salt\, Sweat & Steam\, in discussion with Cynthia Greenlee on Sat\, May 23\, 11am-12pm. This free event takes place indoors. Free parking is available on-site. The space is wheelchair accessible. No pets allowed. Fearrington Village is part of the Chatham County Craft Beverages & Country Inns Trail. See more events at Fearrington Village. \nBOOK SUMMARY \nRich with detail\, Salt\, Sweat & Steam takes readers inside America’s top culinary school and shows what’s really required to become a chef: from brutal\, unpaid internships and grueling practical exams to late-night vending machine dorm-room dinners while trudging through the rarefied world of fine wine. As editor of the school’s newspaper\, “La Papillote\,” Washington\, a Trinidadian\, meets and interviews food-world luminaries such as Jerome Bocuse\, Daniel Boulud\, and Thomas Keller and savors the joys of a life devoted to food. She puts us all in her kitchen clogs as she finally achieves the perfect mise-en-place both in and out of the dignified kitchen of The Culinary Institute of America. Unwilling to accept a future that was anything but delicious\, readers follow along Washington’s high-octane journey through the rigors and rewards of the country’s most elite cooking school. \nAUTHOR BIOS \nBrigid Washington is a Trinidadian food writer who has covered a variety of topics\, including Caribbean food and culture as it intersects with life in the United States. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America\, Washington is the author of Coconuts. Ginger. Shrimp. Rum and Caribbean Flavors for Every Season. Her writing has appeared in Bon Appétit\, Food & Wine\, Garden & Gun\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Southern Living\, The New York Times\, and a number of other publications. She serves as the vice chair of the journalism committee for the James Beard Foundation. She lives with her husband and two children in Raleigh\, North Carolina. \nDr. Cynthia Greenlee is a James Beard Award-winning writer and historian based in Durham. Her work has been everywhere from the New York Times to the Atlantic\, and in multiple volumes of Best American Food Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing/ She is the editor of the just-released If Memory Serves: Stories from the Table\, an anthology of 42 authors writing about food and memory from around the world. She also serves as deputy editor of special projects at the Guardian US.
URL:https://visitpittsboro.com/event/brigid-washington-salt-sweat-and-steam/
LOCATION:McIntyre’s Books\, 220 Market Street\, Pittsboro\, NC\, 27312\, United States
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SUMMARY:Craig Johnson: The Brothers McKay
DESCRIPTION:Join McIntyre’s Books for Craig Johnson: The Brothers McKay on Sat\, May 30\, 11am-12pm in The Fearrington Barn. They are delighted to welcome Craig Johnson back to Fearrington Village for his new book\, The Brothers McKay. To attend this ticketed event\, simply purchase one copy of The Brothers McKay from McIntyre’s\, and they will tuck two tickets in your book. This event takes place indoors. Free parking is available on-site. The space is wheelchair accessible. No pets allowed. Fearrington Village is part of the Chatham County Craft Beverages & Country Inns Trail. See more events at Fearrington Village. \nBOOK SUMMARY \nWhen Pepper McKay\, one of the most hated men in Absaroka County\, is found murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon\, suspects aren’t in short supply. But Sheriff Walt Longmire’s attention is on those who had gathered for a family meeting that evening\, McKay’s very different sons: a smooth-talking charmer\, a cosmopolitan journalist\, a reclusive monk\, and a half-Native ranch hand who keeps the place running. Each had a motive. Each claims he’s innocent. As Walt investigates what happened that night at the O-Kay Lodge\, he’s pulled into a tangle of old grudges and long-buried secrets. Then the case takes a sharp turn: a second body surfaces\, and a wildfire tears through the canyon\, trapping Walt and forcing him into a fight for his life as both the killer and the elements close in. \nAUTHOR BIO \nCraig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries\, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is a two-time recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction\, multiple Will Rogers Medallion Awards\, and his novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. Craig is the 2025 recipient of the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature. He lives in Ucross\, Wyoming\, with a population of 26.
URL:https://visitpittsboro.com/event/craig-johnson-the-brothers-mckay/
LOCATION:Fearrington Barn\, 500 Market Street\, Pittsboro\, NC\, 27312\, United States
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