Jacksonville Talks Lectures Events

Thursday, June 14 6:00p
Woodbury Wellness Health and Rehab, Hampstead
Presented by Home Instead Senior Care Support group meetings designed to provide helpful tips on how to get through each day with reduced stress.

Tuesday, May 29 7:00p
Chance-Kemp Orientation Theatre, Tryon Palace History Center, New Bern
George Smart, founder and director of the award-winning non-profit Triangle Modernist Houses.com, will present his popular talk to the Eastern NC section of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Eastern).

Sunday, June 24 3:00p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Maureen Lee, Sissieretta Jones, "The Greatest Singer of Her Race", 1868-1933. This is a biography of the highly successful, classically trained soprano.

Tuesday, June 5 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., visits with Freeman: A Novel. At the end of the Civil War, an escaped slave walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife.

Wednesday, June 27 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Author of Kinfolks and Washed in the Blood, LISA ALTHER, Blood Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance.

Tuesday, June 19 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
JAY LEUTZE, Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail.

Tuesday, June 12 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Contributors SHIRLETTE AMMONS, JACKIE SHELTON GREEN, AJUBA JOY, LENARD MOORE, Home is Where: An Anthology of African-American Poetry from the Carolinas.

Thursday, May 31 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs. A rising young economist at Berkeley argues that where you live will soon determine how successful you are, and explains how this new geography benefits centers of inn

Thursday, June 21 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett, The Cost of Hope: A Memoir. A moving and beautifully written memoir—a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s que

Tuesday, June 19 8:00a
McKimmon Conference Center, Raleigh
Hospice of Wake County, Alzheimers North Carolina & Guiding Lights present The Triangle Caregivers Conference Tues, 6-19-12 at McKimmon Center in Raleigh and Tues, 6-26-12 at Durham Convention Center.