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Carol Grotne Belk Distinguished Lecture Ron RashThe Balance of Beauty and Violence: Serena and the LandThursday, July 16, 2009 · 3:30pm Plemmons Student Union Linville Falls Room Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina Sponsored by Belk Library and Information Commons Noted Appalachian writer and native North Carolinian Ron Rash reads from his new novel Serena, and discusses merging the history of Appalachia with the fiction of the novel. Set in 1929, Serena tells the story of newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton who come from Boston to the North Carolina Mountains to create a timber empire. Serena rises to the challenges of the camp, but the Pembertons' marriage is tumultuous. Serena discovers that George is the father of an illegitimate child, and when she learns that she cannot bear children, she seeks revenge on the child. This gripping story is Macbeth via Appalachia. Rash currently serves as the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. He was born in 1953 in Chester, South Carolina, and grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. He has family roots locally in the Aho Community. The Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Lecture celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2009. An Appalachian Summer Festival has featured the Belk Lecture each year since 2000, when Dr. Harold Keiner gave the inaugural presentation. Sponsored by: .gif)
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