The Fayetteville Observer, N.C., Bill Kirby column: Summer concert tonight in park
ZZHVV | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Folks at The Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County say bring your coolers, picnic baskets and lawn chairs to Festival Park today as members of the Cape Fear Regional Theatre, the Fayetteville State University faculty jazz combo and the FSU Jazz Orchestra take to the stage. The music is scheduled to start at 7 p.m, and its all free thanks to the Arts Council, the Fayetteville/Cumberland County Parks and Recreation Department and Reed-Lallier Chevrolet. Members from the theatre will perform numbers from recent musical productions. FSU's orchestra is an 18-piece band that will perform swing music from the 1940s and 1950s. Parking spaces for those with special needs will be reserved at the lot adjacent to the Festival Park Plaza building. For more information, visit www.TheArtsCouncil.com or call 323-1776.
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You may, depending on what time you read your newspaper today, still have time to play golf on one of the Sandhills' more popular courses. The Woof Woof Open to benefit Pooch Park in the Pines in Moore County is scheduled today at Longleaf golf course and Sunday at The Pit golf course. Entry fee for one round is $75 or two rounds for $125. Tee-off in the best two of four-ball event is at 8:30 a.m. both days. Send e-mail inquiries to poochparkinthepines.com. The event is co-sponsored by the Moore Humane Society.
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"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," published in 1940 by author Carson McCullers, will be the focus of "The Big Read" in 2010. The program, sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts, offers an opportunity for people in communities to read, discuss and celebrate one of 30 selections from U.S. and world literature. It brings with it a $20,000 stipend from the NEA, the fourth straight year the Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center has been honored. What makes McCullers' first novel of particular interest is that she began writing the manuscript here in 1938 at age 23, when she lived with her husband, Reeves, in an apartment on Rowan Street. They later moved to 119 N. Cool Spring St. and resided in Cool Spring Tavern. "The Big Read" is scheduled here for late March through April, and The Friends of the Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center are tickled. To learn more about our local library, visit www.cumberland.lib.nc.us.
Bill Kirby can be reached at kirbyb@fayobserver.com or 323-4848, ext. 486.
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