Big Ivy Big Ivy Book Club


By Nancy Dillingham Te Big Ivy Book Club will meet


Saturday (Jan. 22) at 10 am at Big Ivy Community Center to discuss Fannie Flagg’s novel “Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven.” Te story, trademark Fannie


Flagg, begins as Elner Shimfissle, an elderly lady, climbs a ladder to pick some figs to give to a neighbor. She falls off the ladder, “dies,” and goes to heaven, then comes back to earth again, not really having died at all, even though her demise had already been announced by two of her good friends at the local radio station. Te “plot” – summarized as


above – does not, of course, do jus- tice to the novel. With that whim- sical plot and her cast of eccentric characters, Flagg is going for much more here. She is going for the


heart. If you’ve read other books by


Flagg, most notably “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café” (from which was made a very successful movie) or “A Redbird Christmas,” a personal favorite of mine, you know that Flagg’s books offer up, in the words of one critic, healthy doses of “moral messages and homespun wit.” She even of- fers up, in this book, the recipe for “Dorothy’s Heavenly Caramel Cake,” which, by the way, plays a pivotal part in the plot. Could we ask for anything more? What happens when you die?


Flagg poses that question here. But perhaps the more important message she imparts is that how you live each day is what matters. Te book reminds me of Torn-


ton Wilder’s play “Our Town” (an- other favorite of mine) where the young girl, Emily, who has tragi-


Weaverville Music Study Club concert A free concert will be presented at 7 pm on Friday (Jan. 21) in the


sanctuary of First Baptist Church, Weaverville. Featured musicians will be Cynthia Roop and Barbara Scott on violin with Linda Jones and Pamela Ballard as piano accompanists. Te Weaverville Music Study Club is sponsoring the event. For additional information, con- tact Harriet Burnette at 645-5798.


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Locust Grove Baptist Church


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Where We Worship Church Directory


Salem United


Methodist Church 9 Salem Church Rd. Weaverville ~ 828.645.6014 Pastor - Rev. Darrel Bowles


Worship Hours: Sunday School 9:45 AM Worship 11:00 AM Wednesday


Evening 6:30 PM (Prayer and Bible Study)


Celebration Baptist Church 2 Boyds Chapel Road, Weaverville


Sunday School 9:30 Worship 10:30


Wednesday Prayer/ Bible Study 6:30


Pastor: Rev. Dolph Robinson January 20 - January 26, 2011 - THE TRIBUNE/LEADER 9


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