Aiken Center for the Arts showcases cross culture exhibit
The Aiken Center for the Arts hosts a joint exhibit with Aiken artists and Orvieto Italy, featuring Leslie Alexander’s In the Company of Women with Sandra Van Pelt Hogue, and Livio Orazio Valentini’s Recent Works. Valentini, a visiting USCA professor, blends Etruscan, Postmodern and Renaissance influences. The show debuted Sept 7 and runs through Sept 30 at 122 Laurens St. SW.
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Aiken Center For the Arts
Leslie Alexander
University of South Carolina
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Livio Orazio Valentini
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Overland Park Author Of Old West Tales From Orphanage Days
Florence B Smith grew up in an Helena Oklahoma orphanage after being sent at age five by a divorced mother. She longed for her father and used storytelling to cope later turning to self publishing. Now 71 she writes adventure novels set in the late 1800s and has sold over 1500 copies at festivals fairs and online.
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Florence B. Smith
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Sophia Myers
Family tales rise in autobiography class at St ar Parish church
A parish program offered autobiographical writing to encourage members to mine memories and record ancestry. The narrator notes the effort yielded a rich trove of stories, not a blockbuster contract, and hopes to preserve family lore for future generations.
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