Dear Friends and Good People  -



The Rose Glen Literary Festival was held on Saturday, Feb 24, at the Sevierville Convention Center.  Premier southeastern authors attended the festival which included a book fair, workshops, and luncheon. 

Sponsored by the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce, all programs at the Festival were free except for the luncheon.  This year’s keynote speaker was Wiley Cash who is a writer in residence at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.  Also featured were Bill Landry and Sam Venable.

The full program can be found at  http://roseglenfestival.com/The_Festival.aspx http://www.heysmokies.com/rose-glen-literary-festival-2018/   and http://www.seviernewsmessenger.com/2018/02/20/rose-glen-literary-festival-2018/    

Over the weekend on March 18th, C-SPAN’s BOOK-TV premiered and posted three sessions which were recorded at the Festival:

Small Treasons  by 

Mark Powell at the 

Rose Glen Literary Festival in Sevierville, Tennessee.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?441214-2/small-treasons

The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency  by Kathryn Smith at the Rose Glen Literary Festivalin Sevierville, Tennessee.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?441214-3/the-gatekeeper


Flat Broke with Two Goats  by 

Jennifer McGaha 

at the Rose Glen Literary Festival in Sevierville, Tennessee.   https://www.c-span.org/video/?441214-4/flat-broke-goats 

The Rose Glen Literary Festival was named to honor the history and legacy of Rose Glen Plantation.  Check out the video about the history of Rose Glen and its founders https://youtu.be/WXXCf4lqd9k  who inspired the creation of the Rose Glen Literary Festival, one of whom was Reese Ripatti, late Director of the Sevier County Library System, and for whom Rose Glen was an ancestral family home.

Can’t wait till next year  -  Don



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Donald B. Reynolds, Jr.
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Talbott, Tennessee 37877
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