This weekend is a special weekend for us at Fearrington Village. It marks the return of our beloved FearringtonFolk Art Show, and this year it is dedicated to Bynum's late chainsaw genius Clyde Jones. Friday night is the Collector's Preview Party with hors d'oeuvres and the first crack at art. Josh Cote, who created the raven on the typewriter and the rabbit mascot by our front door, will be there, too! Saturday and Sunday the show is open to stroll 10-5 for a $5 cover fee at the door.
This Sunday at 2pm is also our first Poetry Event of the year with the NC Poetry Society. This month's reading features Kashiana Singhi, Maureen Sherbondy, and Stan Lak.Our January event withDasan Ahanu, Morrow Dowdle, and Jay Bryan has been rescheduled for Sunday, March 22 at 2pm.
Wednesday, February 25th at 7pm is our first Our State Magazine Book Clubmeeting. Come and join us for Books in the Barn with a terrific discussion with Wiley Cash and Vanessa Brian. For tickets, clickhere.Copies of her novel, The American Queen are available with a 20% bok club discount.
Great news to share. One of our favorite authors is traveling on tour in the US this spring. Steve Cavanagh will be in the US and at McIntyre's on Saturday, March 29 at 11am to discuss his latest Eddie Flynn thriller, Two Kinds of Stranger. To attend,buy your copy of this bookfrom McIntyre's, and we will put you and a friend on our guest list.
And finally, we have a winner. The Beltie Prize winner for 2026 was announced at CrimeScene, and Pete chose Belinda Bauer's The Impossible Thing. Pete says, “This is easily the most creative novel I’ve read in a while. It starts in the 1920’s England with the proliferation of upper crust egg collectors paying poor land holders to raid coastal bird rookeries, then segues into the present when one such egg, nestled in an ornate case, the last of six, long thought lost, is discovered in the attic of a house recently inherited by the deceased’s daughter and grandson. Not knowing what he’s found the grandson puts the egg up for sale on Ebay and hours later is bound and gagged and the egg stolen. From there he sets out, with his best friend, to recover the egg and along the way learns all about the nefarious history of egg collecting. This was so much fun, so interesting, so different and so much more than just a crime novel.”
And the Wall Street Journal weighs in,“A cliffhanger of a tale . . . Around the mystery of the fate of the so-called Metland Egg, Bauer constructs a multigenerational drama as captivating as the fabled object itself . . . rich in humor and suspense.”
We look forward to our next CrimeScene in 2028!
The Usual Suspects,
Pete, Johanna, Sarah G., Tyler, Amy, Juliana, Sarah C. and Keebe
