Signings, Friends' meeting are on tap
The Aiken County Public Library has three events coming up in July to keep things interesting this summer.
British author Angela Kilmartin will have a discussion and book signing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 16, for her book "The Patient's Encyclopedia of Urinary Tract Infection."
Kilmartin, an opera singer who plans several performances in Aiken churches during her visit, cut her professional music career short after chronic cystitis attacks began in 1966. She founded the U&I Club support group, which ran from 1971 to 1981, and has written several books on the subject. Her website, www.angelakilmartin.com, offers many of her books, leaflets, audiotapes and DVDs.
The Friends of the Aiken Public Library will hold its quarterly meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at the library. The Friends will make a donation of $10,000 to the library at the meeting, designed to help address recent cuts in state funding and underwrite the purchase of new books and media in 2010 for the library's collections.
The Friends of the Aiken Public Library is currently in the midst of a membership drive; for more information about the organization, visit www.aikenlibraryfriends.com.
An awards ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, July 31, at the library. The South Carolina State Library's Center for the Book will present a 2009 South Carolina Center for the Book Award for Writing, Teaching and Literary Arts Advocacy to Leonard Todd of Edgefield.
Todd is the author of "Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave," in which he traces the history of an 1800s Edgefield slave known only as Dave, whose jugs and storage jars have gained fame as historical relics, as antiques and as works of art. Along the way, Todd learned of his own family's antebellum history and the history of Edgefield's distinctive alkaline-glazed pottery.
For more information about upcoming events, call the Aiken County Public Library at 642-2020 or visit www.abbe-lib.org.
Contact Suzanne Stone at sstone@aikenstandard.com.
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