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Bethania: The Village by the Black Walnut Bottom  has been released by the History Press and is available in area book stores, as well as all the major online booksellers. Please join me in Winston-Salem on August 28th, there will be a reading
and a book signing at 6 p.m. with wine and hors d'oeuvres at Village Smith Galleries in Reynolda Village in Winston-Salem. Bowman Gray who did the present day photography for the book, will also be displaying some of his prints from the book
along with other work.


Description: Founded in 1759, Bethania was the first planned Moravian settlement in North Carolina, situated favorably on the Great Wagon Road of the colonial era.
Bethania's narrative weaves together 250 years of history and memory, with voices from the town's white and black heritage speaking through autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters, oral histories, photographs and archival research. Join local
resident Beverly Hamel as she tells the story of proud Pilgrim people who journeyed into an unknown wilderness and built a community that would remain intact through the volatile periods of the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, slavery and the years leading to the Civil War, the Reconstruction era and into the twentieth century. The story of Bethania is a celebration of an enduring spirit that
will never die.



Paperback: 160 pages

Publisher: The History Press (July 16, 2009)

ISBN-10: 1596296372

ISBN-13: 978-1596296374

my web site: http://www.bethaniawritersworkshop.com