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The Real Story Behind Charlotte’s Web

Since tomorrow might be gray and rainy… here is a great indoor activity perfect for anyone who loves books. Mystery Lovers Bookshop, located in Oakmont, is whole shop dedicated to mystery books, they also sell other books and can order any book you would like (support your local book shop). On Satruday, Mystery Lovers Bookshop is hosting a Coffee & Crime author event with Michael Sims who wrote the book The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E.B. Whites’s Eccentric Life in NAture and the Birth of an American Classic.

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Michael Sims, Coffee & Crime Oct. 1

If you’ve ever wondered how E.B. White came to write the children’s classic Charlotte’s Web you’ll find all the answers at our Coffee & Crime author breakfast with Michael Sims on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 10 am.

Michael’s newest book, The Story of Charlotte’s Web, is a fascinating exploration of the eccentric life of E.B. White and the events that led this long-time writer for the New Yorker magazine to pen one of the enduring classics of children’s literature.

Tickets are $5 and available online here. You can follow Mystery Lovers Bookshop on Facebook here.

The tale of how a classic was spun (independent.co.uk)
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (Banned Books Week) (bookjourney.wordpress.com)
Charlotte’s Web (tammycarterbronson.wordpress.com)

Bringing Life Back to the East Liberty Borders

I have been excited about this ideas since we first got an email about it last month. Fleeting Pages is a project to turn the East Liberty Borders – which closed for business a few weeks ago into a pop-up independent book store. With the help of a lot of different groups – Fleeting Pages will be open for a month.

Fleeting Pages is also putting Pittsburgh on the map – the idea has been covered on national blogs too – GalleyCat and The Consumerist.

You can help get the ball rolling on this project by supporting the Fleeting Pages Kickstarter Project here. They are also still accepting submissions of books and workshop ideas too. You can get all of the details at FleetingPages.com.

Still Time for Some Summer Reading + $30 Joseph Beth Books Giveaway

We have books on the brain today and wanted to share some links that might be helpful for anyone looking for a few more books to read instead of beach reads – think burgh reads. Scroll down for info about how to win a $30 certificate to Joseph Beth Books.

Blogging Books About the Burgh

Check out the blog Books N’At – a blog that is all about books and the burgh. Profiles of Pittsburgh authors and a calendar of literary events too. Continue reading →

Links Worth a Look – June 14th

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:

Fizzy Drinks Class – Hack Pittsburgh hosts a class on Fizzy Drinks – the history, techniques, and equipment behind a range of fermented carbonated beverages. Also will be making root beer. Sat – June 26.
La Gourmandine – New French Bakery Opening in Lawrenceville this week – A couple from Paris has moved to Pittsburgh and will be opening a French bakery on Butler Street. The soft opening is on Tuesday. (via Pittsburgh Magazines Eat Street)
Book – "Rooney: A Sporting Life" – New book from Pitt history professor Rob Ruck about Art Rooney, Sr.

Follow IheartPGH on Twitter – we share more links there almost daily!

History Books – Making the Connections

Making the Connections Book Launch Party
Friday, April 17, 2009, 4-7 pm
Shadow Loung, 5972 Baum Blvd, East Liberty
RSVP on Facebook here.

One of the final events of the Pittsburgh 250 celebration was the community connections wrap up session back in December. The afternoon turned out to be a lot more fun that I had anticipated. As part of the Pittbsurgh 250 birthday celebration – the folks at the Sprout Fund helped to distribute over $1,000,000 in grants to communities around western PA to celebrate pride and progress in their community.

I was honored to serve on the grant making panel and hearing about the projects at the end of the year long birthday celebration exceeded all of my expections. People came from all over the region to talk about the projects that took place in their communities to celebrate the 250th birthday and they had great stories to share and the sprout fund had a great story teller to document the stories too. These stories were way more than just tales of an extended birthday party. The community connections grants engaged people in more ways than just parties. Sitting there in December I learned about all kinds of projects that happened from these grants – from mobile agriculture labs, Jazz communities, car car ministries and some very entertaining tales of fishing trips.

So the folks at the Sprout Fund wrangled up their story teller to document these stories in a book which debuts tomorrow – Friday April 17, 2009 at a reception at the Shadow Lounge.

I stopped by the Sprout Fund office earlier this week for a sneak peek of the book which is titled Making the Connections – it is great – they have done an outstanding job of compiling and capturing the region in a convenient book format.

Stop by the Shadow Lounge to celebrate and pick up a copy or order one from the Sprout Fund’s website here.

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