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SUMMARY:Leander’s Lies: Where North Carolina history and imagination converge
DESCRIPTION:There was a real Leander who hid his past behind a string of lies. Why did he lie? Perhaps because of the political and economic climate of late 19th-century North Carolina. Nancy Werking Poling will discuss how she incorporated several realities of that period into fictional narrative. Get your tickets: https://history.swannanoavalleymuseum.org/wncpast/\n\nSpeaker’s Bio: Nancy Werking Poling lives in Black Mountain. After her essay\, “Leander’s Lies” won the 2018 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize\, she turned the narrative into a historical novel by the same title. Her other books include While Earth Still Speaks\, an environmental novel\, and Paradise Affirmed: stories of scandal and virtue at Happy Corner Church\, linked short stories. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals.  nancypoling.com
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:There was a real Leander who hid his past behind a string of lies. Why did he lie? Perhaps because of the political and economic climate of late 19th-century North Carolina. Nancy Werking Poling will discuss how she incorporated several realities of that period into fictional narrative. Get your tickets: https://history.swannanoavalleymuseum.org/wncpast/\n\nSpeaker’s Bio: Nancy Werking Poling lives in Black Mountain. After her essay\, “Leander’s Lies” won the 2018 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize\, she turned the narrative into a historical novel by the same title. Her other books include While Earth Still Speaks\, an environmental novel\, and Paradise Affirmed: stories of scandal and virtue at Happy Corner Church\, linked short stories. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals.  nancypoling.com
LOCATION:410 North Commons Court Black Mountain NC 28711
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URL:https://business.explorethevalley.org/events/Details/leander-s-lies-where-north-carolina-history-and-imagination-converge-1849490?sourceTypeId=Hub
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