At the Friends of the Library Annual Dinner

Thursday June 12th

Social Hour: 5:30 pm

Dinner: 6:30 pm

Guest Speaker: 7:00 pm

At Grace Episcopal Church

394 North Haywood Street, Waynesville. 

 Dinner by Sunset Catering.

Purchase advance tickets before June 6th

at Waynesville Public Library M-F 9-5. For more info: 452-5169

About Wayne Caldwell and Cataloochee:

The featured novel: Against the breathtaking backdrop of Appalachia comes a rich, multilayered post—Civil War saga of three generations of families–their dreams, their downfalls, and their faith. Cataloochee is a slice of southern Americana told in the classic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner. Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain) calls the novel, “A brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America”.

Wayne Caldwell was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Appalachian State University, and Duke University. He began writing fiction in the late 1990s. He has published four short stories and a poem, and won two short story prizes. Caldwell lives near Asheville with his wife, Mary. Cataloochee is his first novel. Caldwell is writing his second novel, which continues the Cataloochee story after it ends in 1928.