MOVEABLE FEASTS

Mostly Tuesdays, 11 AM-1 PM, Mostly $30*

Luncheons with exciting authors, artists, musicians & historians at area eateries
For 25 years, the Moveable Feast, founded and managed by Linda Ketron, has been held at local restaurants throughout the year on Fridays (and some Tuesdays). Going forward, Moveable Feasts are scheduled for mostly Tuesday unless the presenter or the preferred venue is unavailable. In addition to authors, the Moveable Feasts will feature artists and musicians, historians and folks of interest! The presentation precedes the meal. For each Feast, the chef prepares a special menu, typically unavailable during the restaurant’s public hours. Food allergies are accommodated with advance notice; vegetarian option always available. Individuals, couples, friends, book clubs, and other small groups are assigned table seating. We will call to confirm your reservation 10 days prior to the event. *Each Feast is $30 unless additional expenses dictate higher. For reservations, 843.235.9600 or visit www.ClassAtPawleys.com.

Tues., Feb. 14 ~ Jill Trinka (Appalachian Songs of Love) at Litchfield Country Club

(619 Country Club Drive, Pawleys Island 29585)

Love songs come in all manner of styles – ballads, lyric songs, and “just for fun” pieces – encompassing the myriad facets of love: courtship, coquettish, mysterious, teasing, true, absent, unrequited, lost, false, and old. Don’t miss this Musical Moveable Feast with Jill’s selection of love songs from Appalachia (and somewhat beyond). Jill’s performances and recordings are beloved around the world and especially in the United States, where she researches, records, and teaches teachers, children, and people just like you!

Tues., Feb. 21 ~ John Cribb (The Rail Splitter) at Pawleys Tap & Pour

(13089 Ocean Hwy, Pawleys Island 29585)

The author of the acclaimed novel Old Abe has penned a new work of historical fiction that brings Abraham Lincoln to life as never before. The Rail Splitter tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable journey from a log cabin to the threshold of the White House—a journey that turns him into one of America’s most beloved heroes. We walk beside him on every page of this spellbinding novel and come to know his hopes and struggles on his winding path to greatness. John’s previous work includes coauthoring The American Patriot’s Almanac and The Educated Child, both New York Times bestsellers; co-editing The Human Odyssey, a 3-volume world history text; and developing on- line history courses. John also worked as former US Secretary of Education Bill Bennett’s collaborator on the New York Times #1 bestseller The Book of Virtues. He has appeared on numerous TV, radio, and podcast shows such as
C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and Fox News’s Fox & Friends, and his writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, FoxNews.com, The Hill, Real Clear Politics, and several other publications.

Tues., Feb. 28 ~ Ron Daise (Geechee Literature Series) at The Village House

(13089 Ocean Hwy, Building E, Pawleys Island 29585)

Not one to rest on his laurels, Ron Daise has authored two new books. He is the former Vice President for
Creative Education at Brookgreen Gardens, the former star of Nick Jr. TV’s “Gullah Gullah Island,” a former
chairman of the federal Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, a recipient of The Palmetto Award of SC, The Governor’s Award, and the Jean Lacey Harris Heritage Award. Experience from each of these affiliations are echoed in We Wear the Mask – Unraveled Truths in a Pre-Gullah Community and Turtle Dove Done Drooped His Wings – A Gullah Tale of Flight or Fight, the first two novellas of his “Geechee Literature Series.” The books showcase Gullah Geechee culture as contemporary through historical and literary fiction. Each story connects the past, present, and future. Rest assured that a “talk” by Ron is going to be a riveting “performance.”

Tues., March 7 ~ Laurie Loewenstein (Unmentionables) at Inlet Affairs

Loewenstein applies her brilliant journalistic research to an award-winning historical fiction account of the dress reform advocate who shocked Chatauqua audiences a century ago in the midwest, inspiring young women to fight for the vote and equal opportunities, to leave the prejudicial expectations of their small-town society and find their way in big-city Chicago and war-torn France. A vivid tale of different times and issues, many of which are still unresolved today.

Tues., March 14 ~ Stephanie Alexander (Tipsy Collins Trilogy) at Pawleys Plantation (Sawgrass)
The trilogy – Charleston Green, Haint Blue, and Palmetto Rose – is an exploration of women’s everyday trials and tribulations, with a hefty dose of southern charm and supernatural intrigue. New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand praises Charleston Green as “skillful and clever and funny.” Kirkus Reviews calls it “an enchanting novel of a woman finding her way out of a midlife (and mid-death) crisis.”

Tues., March 21 ~ C. Hope Clark (Edisto Island Mysteries) at Hot Fish Club

A decade after her first Moveable Feast and more than that many new mysteries under her pen, Hope Clark returns with the 9th book (Badge of Edisto) in her third mystery series (preceded by the Carolina Slade and Craven County series). Retired Police Chief Callie Jean Morgan is having second thoughts about her half-assed “good ol’ boy” replacement in the town of Edisto – with lethal cause. Hope Clark’s books have been honored as winners of the Epic Award, Silver Falchion Award, the Imaginarium Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award.

Tues., April 11 ~ Teri M. Brown (Sunflowers Beneath the Snow and An Enemy Like Me)

at Pawleys Tap & Pour

After garnering six awards in 2022 for her first historical fiction, Teri Brown has written a compelling second novel. In Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, she explored the tenacity of women, showing that even in grueling circumstances (i.e., Ukraine under Soviet control), they can, and do, experience all the good things life has to offer – compassion, joy, love, faith, and wonder. Now, in An Enemy Like Me, Brown uses the backdrop of World War II to show the angst experienced by her first-generation American protagonist, his wife, and his four-year-old son as he left for and fought in a war he did not create. Here, she explores the concepts of xenophobia, intrafamily dynamics, and the recognition that war is not won and lost by nations, but by ordinary men and women and the families who support them. We are watching this drama play out again.

Tues., April 18 ~ Liz Newall (You Don’t Have to Tell Everything You Know)

at Quigley’s Next Door

Liz Newall grew up in the tiny cotton town of Starr in upstate South Carolina where she heard many a-story, some joyfully repeated, others barely whispered. She’s been a teacher, peach picker, freelance writer, and longtime managing editor of Clemson World alumni magazine. Now retired, she lives on the family farm in the Wild Hog community of Pendleton, S.C., with her husband, Billy, and their dogs, King and Jessi. Her first work of historical fiction tracks the life of Isamar Woods Jones McGee, born in upstate South Carolina into a second family in 1865, one month after the Civil War ended. Her life is a product of unsettled times, family dynamics, and the human condition. She tells her story and those of the people around her through journal entries, which she annotates and amends in her final days. Her travels take her down the Savannah River and to the 1901 Charleston Exposition where she meets Beautiful Jim Key, billed as the world’s smartest horse, and a young Nancy Columbia, the Inuit star of stage and screen in the early 1900s. Isamar’s life and times offer a fascinating, often funny, sometimes complex testament to the joys and sorrows of the human heart — regardless of era.

*Tues., April 25 ~ Patricia Kolencik & Jane Petrone (Wachesaw & Richmond Hill Plantations:

A Short History) at Kimbel’s, Wachesaw ($50 incl. signed book)

After several years researching, fact checking, writing, editing, polishing and proofing, Patty & Jane are ready to share the fascinating history of their community. Step back in time as these two lifelong educators take you on a captivating journey through the centuries to reveal the complex historical account of two intertwined antebellum rice plantations, Wachesaw and Richmond Hill. This intriguing trek through the passage of time will take the reader through the early Native American settlements to colonization, the rice culture, the Civil War and Reconstruction, northern investment, and southern development, highlighting the families whose lives revolved around the two estates. Whether a history buff or just a curious reader, this short history brings the whispers from the past alive as one journeys through the victories and struggles of these plantations, which are now recognized in the National Register of Historic Places. (Registration priority granted to WPC members and Wachesaw
residents.)