if (!window.AdButler){(function(){var s = document.createElement(“script”); s.async = true; s.type = “text/javascript”;s.src = ‘http://ab169825.adbutler-ikon.com/app.js’;var n = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; n.parentNode.insertBefore(s, n);}());}

var AdButler = AdButler || {}; AdButler.ads = AdButler.ads || [];
var abkw = window.abkw || ”;
var plc278489 = window.plc278489 || 0;
document.write(‘‘);
AdButler.ads.push({handler: function(opt){ AdButler.register(169825, 278489, [650,211], ‘placement_278489_’+opt.place, opt); }, opt: { place: plc278489++, keywords: abkw, domain: ‘ab169825.adbutler-ikon.com’, click:’CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER’ }});

2 Saturday / September 2, 2017

Quarry Festival of Books

10:00 am to 04:00 pm
Dunn Meadow, Indiana University Campus
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/pages.php?pID=117&CDpath=10

Indiana University Press, Bloom Magazine, WFIU and WTIU will co-host the second annual Quarry Festival of Books on Saturday, September 2. The festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Dunn Meadow on the IU Bloomington campus.
Over 20 authors of fiction and general interest titles will be present to autograph books and meet readers with more than 100 individual books available for purchase. Special giveaways and discounts of up to 50% will be offered to all Festival attendees, and a kid’s coloring area will also be part of this year’s event.
“Indianapolis and several other large cities around the country regularly host book festivals to provide local residence a chance to meet and talk to authors,” said Dave Hulsey, Associate Director of Indiana University Press. “With the thriving publishing community in Bloomington, we believe our community would appreciate the same opportunity”

The Quarry Festival of Books will be the same day as the Fourth Street Festival of the Arts & Crafts and the Garlic Festival. It will be a tented event.

The first 100 book purchasers will receive a complimentary copy of Shrubs Large and Small.

Current list of authors participating in the festival include:
• Ray E. Boomhower: Dispatches from the Pacific
• Scott Russell Sanders: Stone Country: Then and Now
• Keven McQueen: Horror in the Heartland
• Jane Simon Ammeson: Hauntings of the Underground Railroad & Murders that Made Headlines
• Lee Mandrell & DeeDee Niederhouse-Mandrell: Indiana Across the Land
• Edward E. Curtis IV: Muslim Americans in the Military
• Jennifer Meta Robinson & James Robert Farmer: Selling Local
• Abraham Aamidor: Chuck Taylor, All Star
• Steven Higgs: Guide to the Natural Areas of Southern Indiana
• Carol Peachee: Straight Bourbon
• James Alexander Thom: Fire in the Water
• Douglas A. Wissing: Hopeless But Optimistic & IN Writing
• Daniel Orr: Earth Eats
• Emily Weisner Thompson: But What If There’s No Chimney & Letters to Santa Claus
• Michael Murphy: The Kimberlins Go To War
• John Gastineau: The Judge’s Brief

Cost: Free

For more information contact:

Michelle Sybert
[email protected]

Children / Education / Entertainment / Festivals

Submit Your Event

Pin It on Pinterest