Pebble Hill Books

Pebble Hill Books is a cooperative publishing venture of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and the University of Alabama Press. Designed to publish works that grow out of or contribute to the Center’s programming, Pebble Hill Books preserves and disseminates scholarship and creative works by Auburn University College of Liberal Arts faculty and by Center associates. The inaugural title, In the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Gulf Coast by Frye Gaillard, was published in 2008. Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation, a collection of papers delivered at the Albert Murray Symposium in January 2008 and edited by Dr. Barbara Baker, will be published in 2009. Paul Hemphill’s A Tiger Walk Through History: A Compete History of Auburn Football from 1892 to the Tuberville Era also appears under the Pebble Hill Books imprint.

Book and Buffet: An Evening with Rheta Grimsley Johnson

For ticket information call the Arts Association of East Alabama at 334-749-8105.

The Auburn University Community Orchestra, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will join with the Arts Association of East Alabama, Envision Opelika and the Auburn Chamber Music society to sponsor “Book and Buffet: An Evening with Rheta Grimsley Johnson” on Thursday, August 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum.

The evening is a benefit for the restoration of historic Miriam S. Brown School in Opelika into an area-wide community cultural and small conference center and has two options for tickets:

“First Edition” includes a conversation by Johnson, “The South Did This to Me”; a copy of her latest book, “Poor Man’s Provence”; a book signing; and a Buffet of Southern Specialties and cash bar provided by caterers Ursula Higgins, Martha Hicks and Billy Lee. ($75 per person, 6:30 p.m. in the Auditorium, limited to 150)

“Second Edition” includes a copy of “Poor Man’s Provence,” book signing, and Buffet of Southern Specialties and cash bar by caterers Ursula Higgins, Martha Hicks, and Billy Lee. ($45 per person; Buffet and cash bar opens at 7 p.m. in the Grand Foyer.)

Roundtable Technology Exchange: Arts, Humanities, and Technology in the 21st Century

How can we use technology for marketing? What is its role, or potential role, in development? What about education? And social networking? How can we collaborate through technology? Can it help us share resources? What does technology offer us collectively?

Join us on July 31, 1 to 5 p.m., at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery for the state's first Roundtable Technology Exchange. The roundtable will convene Alabama cultural, historical, art, and educational organizations to discuss our individual and shared tech opportunities and challenges.

The Roundtable Technology Exchange, a pre-conference event for Face the Future: Humanities and Technology in the 21st Century, is sponsored by the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Alabama Writers' Forum, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum, and the University of Alabama Press.

To register for the Roundtable Technology Exhange, click here.

This Goodly Land - New features!

A program of the Alabama Center for the Book, This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape is an online literary map for the State of Alabama, a website that connects Alabama authors to the parts of the state that are/were significant to them.

A new feature of the site is "This Day in Alabama Literary History". When you access the home page, a program embedded in the page code automatically checks the day's date and presents you with a list of events in Alabama literary history associated with that date. You can subscribe to an RSS feed for "This Day in Alabama Literary History" by clicking on the feed icon in the lower left corner of the TGL home page.

This Goodly Land also has a blog - check out the video "Where are you from?" by writer Todd Keith, videos of presenters at the Albert Murray symposium, and a podcast of a lecture on William Bartram by Draughon Scholar Dr. John C. Hall.

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog for the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. The Center's purpose is to strengthen the bonds between the academic community, the arts, and the general public through quality programs in schools, towns, and communities around the state.

We'll be using this blog as a place to highlight our programs and upcoming events, as well as quotes and images that inspire us.

Feel free to contact us at (334) 844-4946 or cah@auburn.edu.