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Pensters, Author Events, and More!

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Please join us for the Pensters Writing Group meeting this Saturday, featuring Mike Turner. Guests are welcome. 

Also, a few updates on my book events. I’ll be signing books with Gabe at Page & Palette this Sunday, November 19. It’s the annual Downtown Business Holiday Open House. Come by and get a book or say hi.

You only have another week to vote for me Gulf Coast Media’s Best of Baldwin. I’ve been nominated for Best Local Author, so sign in and vote for me.

I’m proud to be a first-generation college student. Coastal Alabama recently featured me and many other first-generation students, faculty, and staff. My story starts around the one minute mark. The video was recorded and edited by students right here on the Fairhope campus. 

Gabriel and l will be speaking at Fairhope Sunset Rotary on November 30 at the Fairhope Yacht Club at 6:30. I serve as secretary for FSR so if you are interested in joining us please let me know. 

Spotlight on Susan! We are going to the Governor’s Mansion in December. Susan will be honored along with other Class of 2022 National Board-Certified Teachers in Alabama. There is a reception and photo op with Governor Kay Ivey. The mansion is decorated for the holidays and there’s light refreshments. Pinkie’s up! Cheers to my brainy and beloved bride!

I’ll be at the James P. Nix Senior Center on Tuesday December 12 at 11 AM. I’ll be talking about the new book and a little about my history with photography.

Fairhope by Foot tours started out as walking tours, and that’s still my bread and butter, and I love leading them. The most recent was for a student trying earn a Congressional Youth Medal. In addition to walking, I’ve led Fairhope tours hoping on and off golf carts, from a bicycle, but here’s the next big leap. I’m hoping on a motor coach! Not sure how this is going to work yet. These things don’t corner well so we may just park in the turn lane like the delivery trucks. The people on the bus with me are going to see Fairhope up close, but through the tinted looking glass.

Thanks for reading, watching, and listening!

What’s Happening in November?

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The debut issue of Fairhope Living will be arriving in your mailbox soon! The free print version, with three articles written by yours truly, is being mailed to more than 10,000 Fairhope residences. 

Fairhope Living Magazine November 2020 Cover

In the meantime, visit the website for more information or click on the cover to view the interactive digital version of the magazine. The digital version includes cool embedded links to websites, videos, and even a virtual home tour, a project done by Coastal Alabama Community College animation students. 

This is Alodia Arnold’s Fairhope Living. This Organic-Schooled Fairhoper and mom dreamed, created, sacrificed, and conquered the 2020 challenges to make her dream come true. I am so proud and thankful for Alodia and our team including Laura Miller, Stephen Savage, Susan Beeco, and Chris Riley. I’m excited, honored and humbled to be a part of Fairhope Living. This is Fairhope’s magazine, and we welcome new sponsors (advertisers) and contributors (writers/photographers/creatives). We’d love to read, see, or hear your first impressions on the print or digital editions, so please comment below or find us on Facebook or Instagram. 

Pensters Writing Group Zoom-November 14 

I’m also excited about talking to the Pensters Writing Group. The online meeting via Zoom is from 10:00-noon. As the Vice President, I’m honored to be the featured speaker this month. After COVID cancelled me in May, I’m looking forward to talking about the reader, writer, and librarian connection. Our meetings are open to the public. If you want to join us, leave an email below in the comments and I will send you the meeting link. 

Page and Palette Holiday Open House-November 22, 2020 

I’ll be hanging out with my friend, author, and fellow Fairhoper Leslie Anne Tarabella at Page and Palette’s Holiday Open House. I will be there from 3-5 pm, selling my 2020 book on a local building block called Clay City Tile: Frank Brown and the Company that Built Fairhope. Copies of Stump the Librarian will be for sale too. Leslie Anne will be there all afternoon selling copies of her latest book Exploding Hushpuppies, the second collection of her newspaper columns. In the meantime, watch a video about Clay City Tile by local filmmaker Michael Marr.   

Thanksgiving 

The last week is for giving thanks. In this weird and wacky year being thankful has never been so important. Thank you for being you, and as always, thank you for reading.  

Are you Thankful?

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This past month I’ve been on an incredible journey. Here’s a few photos from Stump the Librarian‘s book stops. Thanks for supporting a local author and your hometown librarian.

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I was in great company at my Page and Palette book signing. Frye Gaillard (A Hard Rain), political cartoonist, JD Crowe (Half-Thunk Thoughts), and The Grinch!

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The event at Barnes & Noble in Spanish Fort on the 28th was special too. The Brewster family came by and so did a former co-worker and now Spanish Fort Public Library Librarian Zach Basler.

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Sue’s always by my side, em well, except when The Grinch is around.

Enjoy the holiday season and check my author site to find out where I’ll be signing and telling leg stories next. Thanks for reading Stump the Librarian.

Until then, want to know where you would be cataloged in the Dewey Decimal System?

Take this quiz at Spacefem. It’s fun! You can find Stump the Librarian in Biography, but here’s my nonfiction section. The “What it says part about you” is surprisingly true.

Alan Samry’s Dewey Decimal Section:

997 Atlantic Ocean islands

Alan Samry = 121491385 = 121+491+385 = 997

Class:
900 History & Geography

Contains:
Travel, biographies, ancient history, and histories of continents.

What it says about you:
You’re connected to your past and value the things that have happened to you. You’ve had some conflicted times in your life, but they’ve brought you to where you are today and you don’t ignore it.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com