Aug. 2nd:
Fred's Crafts on Beech Mountain
Aug 14th:
Artwalk in downtown Boone
Aug 20th:
Antique's on Howard
Aug 27th
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Todd General Store
Oct. 16th:
Valle Fair in Valle Crusis
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This unique collection of antique postcards illuminates the courtship of my parents in Russia in the year before the beginning of World War I, when middleclass life was a pleasant as anywhere in Europe. Adya (Adolf Lurye) and Olechka (Olga Eliasberg) were dreaming of a lifetime together, and their future seemed rosy indeed. Though the war and the Bolshevik Revolution that followed it destryed that life after only five years, these sentimental offerings, saved for nearly a hundred years through separation, exile, and despair, serve to remind us that love is stronger than chaos, and briefly to restore the scent of that doomed romance. It gives and added perspective to "Weather of the Heart," the memoir I wrote about my Russian family and how we endured the first years of that Revolution, before my father excaped from his country and made me an American at the age of eight.
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"Adya and Olechka, a Postal Romance in Old Russia" gives an animated glimpse into a Russia scarcely known apart from dry history. We may follow the course of the courtship between handsome Adya and beautiful Olechka in the early 1900s. Prior to the Revolution, Russian society was filled with beauty, elegance, romance, travel, and family. This collection of post cards, with their English translation, brings the character of their world to life. Like all lovers, Adya and Olechka tease, pout, yearn for one another, and grow in their relationship. Author Nora Lourie Percival, their daughter, saved and savored this documentation of her parents' courtship for more than nine decades. She now shares them for her readers' enjoyment. ~June Windle Bare, author of "All things" and "Soar Above the Yesterdays"
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