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Area Happenings: Cookout Cruise-In, Swiss Steak dinner, Music on Main and 'Murder at Gatsby Gala'
Community Cookout and Cruise-In Car Show, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, Walnut Hills Retirement Community, 4748 Olde Pump St., Walnut Creek. For more information, call Jodi Dean at 330-893-3200, Ext. 1310. "Murder at Gatsby’s Gala," 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Mariola Italian. Tickets are $50. Join the Wayne County Performing Arts Council at its interactive murder mystery....
International Wine at the Mill Festival set for June
LOUDONVILLE, Ohio — June 8 is the 20th Annual International Wine at the Mill Festival from noon–10 p.m. This is the highlight event of the year to kick off the summer. Good food, wine, music and more will entertain all of the senses. This event also helps the Mill’s operations. Ohio wines to be featured will be D&D Smith Winery, Paper Moon Vineyards , Lincoln Way Winery and many more. Mark Smith, founder and president of Wolf Creek Mill, says they are excited about this...
We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town
It’s disorienting, and also thrilling, when the novel you’ve been writing over the course of several years, a book you know better than anyone, goes out into the world to be compared and categorized. And it’s probably inevitable that if your book is set in a small town and takes on multiple perspectives it will be compared to Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. It’s one of those books I’d always heard of but had no interest in reading. It sounded dull and worn-out, a bit priggish or maybe folksy, like Prairie Home Companion, which was not at all what I was after in my own writing.
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