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It's time for another "Evening of Story & Song"
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featuring
Sean McCarthy, Davis Turner
& Friends
Saturday, May 13, 5 pm
It wouldn't be a Shrimp Festival without the Sean McCarthy Band taking center stage! And if you have lived here long enough to remember O'Kane's Irish Pub on Centre Street, it wouldn't be a Saturday night without a packed house groovin' to the sounds of the Davis Turner Band.
These two locals, and the number of songwriter friends they've made over the years, will treat you to a rich blend of Country, Bluegrass, Folk, Trop Rock and Americana Beach Music (or "Trop-i-cana," as Sean calls it.)
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What's happening this week ...
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"NAMI Book Group"
Monday, May 8, 11 am
The NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Neighborhood Book Club meets the 2nd Monday of every month, and is facilitated by NAMI volunteers. All are welcome to attend and are invited to stay for lunch afterward. This month's selection is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, one of hundreds of books challenged for its content about life growing up on a reservation.
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"Tuesdays with TED"
Tuesday, May 9, 3:30 pm
Community conversation, facilitated by Maureen Kingsley Paschke, over a topic of interest. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, will be partnering with Starting Point Behavioral Healthcare to present this discussion.
Free and open to all.
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"What's Your Number?"
Author Talk with Luis Diaz
Wednesday, May 10, 3 pm
Most people claim that money would never change them -- but those people never hit a $684 million jackpot. An upper-middle class man, Luis, is living his dream life alongside his high school crush and now wife, Krystal, and their two kids. They were undoubtedly the perfect family, until a sidebar conversation at work prompted Luis to buy a ticket to one of the largest lottery jackpots in history. Temptations slowly began leading Luis astray as he now craved a more lavish and opulent lifestyle. Get ready for a wild ride!
Free and open to all.
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"Cakewalk in the Courtyard"
Champagne & Cake
Friday, May 12, 3 pm
Renowned for the wedding cake she created for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, California native Claire Ptak believes there's nothing like cake, any time, anywhere, to express and celebrate love. Join us for this special cookbook release party for Love is a Pink Cake: Irresistible Bakes for Morning, Noon, and Night and try your luck at winning one of the cakes our Bistro will prepare from Claire's cookbook.
Rachel will be making tasty bites of:
Berry Matcha Cake
Gluten-Free Raspberry Roulade with Mascarpone
Lemon Elderflower Wedding Cake
Mocha Buttercream Tiramisu
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$20 tickets include champagne & cake. $55 tickets include a copy of the book, champagne & cake.
Purchase tickets here.
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A Pocket for Corduroy
by Dan Freeman
Viking Books
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StoryTime
with Ms. Dearsha
Saturday, May 13, 10:30 am
We are getting a furry visitor to Storytime this week! Don Freeman's beloved bear Corduroy will be making a special appearance. The first 50 kids to reserve a seat for Storytime will receive a stuffed bear to take home with them. Click here to reserve your space!
Follow your feet to the StoryTime rug!
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StoryTime with craft and/or activity to follow
is free and open to all thanks to our sponsor,
Synovus Bank.
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Mother's Day Brunch Boxes
This Mother's Day, pick up a Brunch Box from Story & Song and skip the restaurant waits. Each Brunch Box includes two slices of quiche, two different pastries, and fruit salad. The first twenty boxes will also come with a complimentary bottle of bubbly. Pick-up your box after 11am on Saturday and reheat the next morning for a Mother's Day breakfast in bed.
Stop by or call the store at (904) 601-2118 to order a Mother's Day Brunch box for $40.
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Reservations requested.
Reserve your seat here.
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"Nassau Community Jazz Band"
Sunday, May 14, 2 pm
Celebrate Mother’s Day at this free concert. The Nassau Community Jazz Band, under the direction of Dr. Marc Dickman, will play selections from the Big Band Era and modern classics with detours into latin and rock styles. ALL music lovers will enjoy the variety presented by this group of adult musicians.
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"Spill the Tea & Tell the Tale"
Saturday, May 20, 3 pm
Join Fernandina Pride and Story & Song for an afternoon tea event featuring stories from members of the the local LGBTQ+ community.
Rachel will be preparing:
Chilled Creamy Tomato Soup
Orange-blossom Tarts
Curried Cauliflower Finger Sandwiches
Benedictine Finger Sandwiches
Blue Cheese Buns
Ube Cheesecake Morsels
Chocolate-Violet Babka Buns
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Free and open to all.
Reserve your seat here.
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"The London Séance Society"
Author Talk with Sarah Penner
Thursday, May 25, 4 pm
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Penner conjures the dead to solve a murder within an exclusive gentlemen’s society in Victorian England.
Reception with the author to follow.
If you’d like an autographed copy, and can’t attend the event, please call the store to purchase and provide your inscription text. Your book will be available for pick-up the next day.
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"The Story of Jazz"
with Les DeMerle
Saturday, May 27, 5 pm
Part 1 of a four-part series featuring the dynamic Les DeMerle Band and vocalist Bonnie Eisele.
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"Address Unknown"
with Frank O'Donnell
& Ron Kurtz
Sunday, May 28, 2 pm
A staged reading with local actors Frank O'Donnell and Ron Kurtz, told entirely in letters between two German friends from 1932 to 1934. A powerful and moving story that captures that difficult time in history.
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"Love & Lemons" Cookbook Release Cocktail Party
Thursday, June 22, 5 pm
Bestselling cookbook author Jeanine Donofrio returns with a new fresh and fabulous cookbook just in time for summer, Love & Lemons Simple Feel-Good Food. Join us as we serve up samples of delicious make-ahead dishes and celebrate with a toast to the summer season.
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Order your Bountiful Bowls today! | | |
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How it works:
♦ Each week we'll feature a bowl inspired by some of our favorite cookbooks.
♦ Select which weeks you'd like to participate and pre-pay (in-store or online)
♦ $12.50 per bowl (one hearty serving)
♦ Pick-up any time after 11 am Monday (best enjoyed the same day)
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May's Bountiful Bowls:
May 8 - Korean Bibimbap Bowl with kimchi, brown rice, mushrooms, Daikon radish, cucumber, carrots, soy sauce, and a soy egg.
May 15 - Heavenly Lentil Bowl with Kale with lentils, red pepper, and cucumber.
May 22 - Georgian Kidney Bean Salad Bowl with kidney beans, fennel, onion, coriander, cilantro, dill, and parsley.
May 29 - Cookin’ in the Courtyard with American Picnic Food: Hot Dogs, Veggie Brats, and all the fixin's.
June's Bountiful Bowls:
June 5 - Ginger-Peanut Soba Noodles with crispy vegetables and marinated jackfruit-
Inspired by the cuisines of Asia! A savory peanut sauce brings together fresh local vegetables, hearty soba noodles, and a mild ginger marinated jackfruit.
June 12 - Kale Pasta Salad Bowl with chickpeas and gluten-free pasta-
Enjoy a taste of the Mediterranean! Crunchy chickpeas, sun-dried tomatoes, and crumbled feta perfectly compliment our local Bacon's Produce kale and gluten-free pasta. Buon Appetito!
June 19 - Gomen Wat / Misir Wat with Ethiopian kale, spiced lentils, and flatbread-
Come celebrate Juneteenth with our unique take on two Ethiopian staples: Gomen Wat, a hearty dish of well-seasoned greens, and Misir Wat, a spiced red lentil. Served with injera!
June 26 - Tuscan Terrace Bowl with crispy artichokes, beans, and pastina with dressing-
Enjoy a citrusy taste of Northern Italy with our tender Pastina, Crispy Artichoke Hearts, and Savory White Beans with a House-made Lemon Vinaigrette.
Remember that a bowl subscription makes a caring gift
for anyone sick or home-bound.
Click here to order your bowls for May and June
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Weekly Bistro Specials
~Serving Brunch & Lunch Until 2pm Daily~
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Soup Special
Chilled Cantaloupe Ajoblanco
Sandwich Special
Pimento Cheese, Fried Okra, and Chow-Chow on Sourdough
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Shop locally online!
In-store pick-up or ship to home
at Bookshop.org
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Bookshop.org, a certified B Corporation founded just three years ago to create an alternative to Amazon for socially-conscious online shoppers, has raised more than $25 million for independent bookstores. We have switched platforms so you can purchase any of the books featured in this newsletter by clicking on the jacket image; books will be shipped to you directly from our warehouse. You may also order and reserve your book to pick up at the store here.
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New Releases
(on sale Tuesday)
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
by Tom Hanks
Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. Cut to the present day: A commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie. Cue the cast: We meet the film's extremely difficult male star, his wonderful leading lady, the eccentric writer/director, the producer, the gofer production assistant, and everyone else on both sides of the camera.
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The House on Prytania
by Karen White
Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she knows when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. And not all of them are benign. But with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan, Beau Ryan's long-lost sister, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates. Especially when the tempting--yet firmly unavailable--Beau, wanting to mete out justice to those he blames for Sunny's kidnapping, asks Nola for a favor that threatens to derail her hard-won recovery and send her hurtling backward. He asks her to welcome the man who bruised Nola's heart back into her life. Beau is convinced that Michael's powerful family was behind Sunny's disappearance, and that Michael is the key to getting information the police won't be able to ignore--if Nola is willing to risk everything for which she's worked so hard.
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New in Paperback
(on sale Tuesday)
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The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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Fellowship Point
by Alice Elliot Dark
Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy-- to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly. Polly Wister has led a different kind of life than Agnes: that of a well-off married woman with children, defined by her devotion to her husband, a philosophy professor with an inflated sense of stature. Polly soon finds her loyalties torn between the wishes of her best friend and the wishes of her three sons--but what is it that Polly wants herself? Agnes's resistance cannot prevent long-buried memories and secrets from coming to light with far-reaching repercussions for all.
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Zach's Sci-Fi / Fantasy Picks of the Week | | |
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To Shape a Dragon's Breath
by Moniquill Blackgoose
The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations--until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. To her people, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisit--a person in a unique relationship with a dragon. Unfortunately for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have different opinions. They have a very specific idea of how a dragon should be raised, and who should be doing the raising--and Anequs does not meet any of their requirements. Only with great reluctance do they allow Anequs to enroll in a proper Anglish dragon school on the mainland. If she cannot succeed here, her dragon will be killed.
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Just for Kids - & Kids at Heart
(on sale Tuesday)
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Sixteen-year-old Joan Sands is a gifted craftswoman who creates and upkeeps the stage blades for William Shakespeare's acting company, The King's Men. Joan's skill with her blades comes from a magical ability to control metal--an ability gifted by her Head Orisha, Ogun. After Joan wounds a powerful Fae and saves the son of a cruel Lord, she is drawn into political intrigue in the human and Fae worlds.
Ages: 7 - 10
The Sea of Terror
by Stuart Gibbs
Simon & Schuster
$12.99
Reserve for in-store pick-up or to mail
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When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together. Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he'd rather be writing a poem that's good enough for his dad. Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport--and also on avoiding a conversation with her dad about him remarrying. Sami is struggling with his anxiety and worried that he'll miss the karate tournament. And Nora has to deal with the pressure of being the daughter of a prominent congresswoman.
Ages: 8 - 12
Grounded
by Huda Al-Marashi
Amulet Books
$18.99
Reserve for in-store pick-up or to mail
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Johannes, a free dog, lives in a dense park hemmed in by human neighborhoods. His job is to be the Eyes--to see everything that happens and report to the three ancient bison who ensure the Equilibrium. His friends--a stalwart seagull, a mordant raccoon, a one-eyed squirrel, and a pelican who can read--work with him as the Assistant Eyes, making sure everything is in balance. But changes are afoot in Johannes' park.
Ages: 8 - 12
The Eyes & The Impossible
by Morgan Matson
McSweeney's
$28
Reserve for in-store pick-up or to mail
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You can now order any book, select new releases you’d like us to hold or mail for you, and request titles for local book groups simply by clicking here. | |
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Like what happens at Story & Song?
Here's how you can keep it going ...
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For experiences that inform, connect, celebrate,
and inspire community vitality, support
Story & Song Center for Arts & Culture.
One of the perks of being a donor is being among the first to know about upcoming special events.
Your contribution is tax-deductible and much appreciated!
Like to volunteer?
Contact Donna at StoryandSongArts.org
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Support the Arts
when you renew your license plates
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Story & Song Center for Arts & Culture is but one of many arts-related organizations supported by Arts and Culture Nassau, a county committee solely funded by license plate sales, comprised of representatives from various organizations. To learn more, visit ArtsandCultureNassau.com. | |
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Story & Song Hours
Monday - Saturday 10 to 5
Sunday 11 to 3
Bistro serving food until 2 pm every day.
Take-out available. Call 601-2118.
Open later during scheduled events
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