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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
LIVE at the Levee concert series kicks off June 18
Newport on the Levee and B105 continue their after work parties with the sixth annual LIVE at the Levee Summer Concert Series, which takes place 6 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday evenings on the Riverwalk Plaza between the Newport Aquarium and Mitchell’s Fish Market.
> The Rusty Griswolds, June 18 and June 23
> Soul Pocket, June 25 and July 9
> Clayton Anderson Band, July 2
> The Menus, July 16
> The Rusty Griswolds
> Leroy Ellington and the E-Funk Band, July 30
> Ridge Runner, Aug. 6
Admission to the LIVE at the Levee Summer Concert Series is free. Music will begin at 6:30 p.m.
IMAGE: Journal-News file photo of the Rusty Griswolds
 
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Next ‘Reading & All That Jazz’ program, June 16
The Hamilton Lane Library, 300 N. Third St., continues Reading & All That Jazz with a Brown Bag Book Review noon, Tuesday, June 16, when reviewer Lori Rehm will discuss “See You in a Hundred Years” by Logan Ward.
From the Dust Jacket…
Logan Ward and his wife, Heather, had traveled the world—Kenya, France, Peru. But nothing compared to their next adventure: a trip back in time, living the life of dirt farmers in rural Virginia circa 1900.
Disillusioned by city life, the Wards pulled their son out of daycare and traded skyscrapers for silos in search of simpler times. Adopting strict rules that limited them to only the tools that were available at the turn of the century, they faced a year of struggles, where unremarkable feats—putting food on the table, attending a neighbor’s 4th of July party—became the worthiest accomplishments of their lives.
With no phone, no computer, and few distractions aside from irritable livestock and a plague of garden pests, Logan and Heather began to reconnect and rebuild their fractured marriage. More than that, they found what they didn’t know they were looking for—community. As the skepticism of neighbors and family turned to admiration, the Wards developed a network of support and love bound by neither time nor technology. By renouncing everything from cell phones to supermarkets they discovered what’s important in life, whether a hundred years ago or a hundred years in the future.
Logan’s chronicle of the Wards’ four seasons in the farming community of Swoope is an honest and compelling account of one family’s struggle to reclaim their lives from our fast-paced, materialistic society—a memoir for our modern age. See You in a Hundred Years is for anyone who has ever daydreamed about the good old days—and wondered how good they really were.
The next Reading & All That Jazz program will be a jazz concert featuring the Buffalo Ridge Dixieland Jazz Band, noon, June 23. Listen as this group brings down the house with it’s banjo, trumpet, clarinet, trombone, tuba, drums and vocal performance.
For more information about these and other programs at the Lane Libraries, call (513) 894-6557.
Source: www.loganward.com
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