Authors sign on for Virginia Book Festival
The ninth annual Virginia Festival of the Book, scheduled for March 18-23, announced last week the names of several authors who have agreed to participate.
Novelists Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle and George Singleton will discuss Southern fiction at the headlining event at Culbreath Theater.
"Crime Wave," at the Omni Hotel March 22, will feature mystery and thriller novelists, including Stuart Kaminsky, Rita Mae Brown, S.J. Rozan and Peter Robinson.
Earl Hammer, creator of the television program "The Waltons" and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, founder of Ms. Magazine, will both be present to sign autographs.
Several non-fiction authors, including Hal Crowther, Charles Bowden and Christopher Camuto, also will be on hand. Poet Nikki Giovanni and novelist William Hoffman will close the event with an authors' reception at Carr's Hill. Tickets are available for $25.
Virginia assembly tables change to nickel
Attempts to remove Monticello from the back of the nickel came to a screeching halt in the legislature this year when proponents encountered Virginia lawmakers.
A proposal to produce nickels with an image of Lewis and Clark on the reverse to commemorate the bicentennial of the explorers' famous expedition greatly angered some Virginia representatives when it was introduced to the House of Delegates in July.
Though a modified version of the bill eventually cleared the House once legislators agreed to reinstate the Monticello nickels after a brief run of Lewis and Clark nickels, the Senate back-shelved the proposal and never ruled on it, effectively nullifying the idea when they recently ended their session.
Consequently, there will be no new nickels to help celebrate Lewis and Clark next month, a result that angered some of those involved.
"I personally think that it is incorrect for Virginia to decide what the nickel should look like for eternity," said Stephen L. Bobbitt of the American Numismatic Association in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Temporary changes may eventually be approved because some representatives have pledged to continue the quest.
-- Compiled by Nick Chapin
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