Julia Ebel to read at City Lights in Sylva

Julia Ebel to Read from New Appalachian Works
Time: Saturday, April 18, 2009 2:00 p.m.
Location: City Lights



(Julia Ebel)

Novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer Julia Ebel will be at the store on Saturday afternoon, April 18th at 2:00 p.m. to read from several new books. Her new title for children is The Picture Man, which tells the story of an Appalachian farm girl’s curiosity about the itinerant photographer who offers to make her family’s portrait. Ebel is also editor of a new collection entitled Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns as Told by Orville Hicks. Her first poetry collection is also new, entitled Dresses, Dreams and Beadwood Leaves, which is an Appalachian growing-up story told in a series of poems. You may go to My Laureate's Lasso to find more about this book.






The Picture Man(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Ebel, Julia Taylor, Canter, Idalia
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $16.95
Published: Parkway Publishers, 2009
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now


In the first half of the twentieth century, itinerant photographers known as "picture men" traveled the backroads of Appalachia and made their living taking photographs of the local farmers and their families. These picture men come to life in this story of an Appalachian farm girl who is intrigued by an offer to photograph her family. Gentle brown-toned watercolors hint of old photographs, while poetic text leads readers from the picture man's arrival to the taking of the photograph. The story culminates with the actual 1940s photograph that inspired this story.