People Showed Up & Tuned In

Gorgeous weather, lovely humans (and a few precious fur babies), talented musicians, artisans, authors, delicious food, assorted adult libations...

Too much goodness and joy to list.

Abundant gratitude to every attendee and the phenomenal P.G. Parks & Recreation/Marietta House Museum teams!

Special thanks to everyone who stopped to chat with the authors and to buy (or find out how to borrow from pgcmls.info) books and pick up some author swag.

This year's Jazz & Wine Fest at Marietta was outstanding in every way.

[4 musicians moving among a drum set, an amp, music and instrument stands arranged under a tent]

[half of a six-foot table assorted author swag of t-shirts, ball caps, a jute & cotton basket containing items for a raffle, framed pages with various QR codes, book purchasing/borrowing instructions, and content warnings, business cards, and hand sanitizer]

[multiple copies of Prison Love, a non-fiction memoir about one woman's experience of incarceration and observations about the ways in which female inmates find and create healthy community, friendship, sisterhood and more]

[a person seated among mature trees while holding a fruity Italian ice drink with a paper umbrella in a cored pineapple]

Currently reading

[front cover of a hardcover copy of Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest by Fawn Weaver]

Made the rookie error of starting to read this book last night after a long, fantastic, exhausting day of author tabling at the Jazz & Wine Fest at Marietta House Museum. Fifteen chapters into this fascinating amalgamation of memoir, journalistic investigation, U.S. history lesson, ancestry search, family & regional saga combined with entrepreneurial hustle and the more details revealed, the more questions generated. Even knowing beforehand that the Uncle Nearest brand is award-winning and a seismic industry-shifter doesn't dilute the dramatic anticipation of how this story ends. Will probably finish it tonight.

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