Sunday with Friends 2025
Posted December 10th, 2024 in
Sunday with Friends has long been Abingdon’s premier series of visiting author events.
In 2025, the Friends of the Washington County Public Library is excited to present a variety of writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays on a variety of timely and thought-provoking subjects, plus a musical dramatization of literary characters from the works of Appalachian novelist Lee Smith.
Mark your calendar to spend some fun literary Sunday afternoons with the Friends at the library in Abingdon this winter and spring.
Sunday with Friends: Rick Van Noy
Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church 136 East Main St, Abingdon, United StatesMeet Rick Van Noy, a Radford University English professor and environmental activist, who will speak about his work, “Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South.” Using creative non-fiction techniques of narrative, scene, humor, and dialogue, Van Noy says that in the book, he wants to move climate change “out of abstraction, to bring […]
Sunday with Friends: Francis Gary Powers, Jr.
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesMeet Francis Gary Powers, Jr. the co-author, with Christopher Sturdevant, of “Cold War Virginia.” Virginia played a central role in United States involvement during the Cold War. With doomsday operations underway for World War III during the 1950s, the Pentagon, CIA, and other federal agencies established Northern Virginia as the epicenter of decision-making. Virginia military […]