General Meetings are a time to welcome visitors, hear guest speakers and discuss club business. All residents of Greater Winston-Salem are invited to join us. General Meetings are held at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1416 Bolton Street (just off Silas Creek parkway via the Bolton Street exit) at 10 a.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month, except August and December.
A Morning of Wine and
Poetry with Joe Mills
Poetry and wine, these
are a few of our favorite things... and when he spoke to our group a few years
ago, Joe Mills became one of our favorite guests. He is an entertaining and
informative source on wineries and wine growing in North Carolina (with his
wife Danielle Tarmey, Joe has authored a second edition of his well received
"A Guide to NC's Wineries"). Joe has traveled widely through our
state's wine country and, in his book, provides wonderful stories and vignettes
about these very individual and remarkable destinations.
Joe teaches at the North
Carolina School of the Arts and has authored four books of original poetry. His
latest work is "Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet," which
joins his earlier titles "Somewhere During the Spin Cycle,"
"Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers," and "Love and Other
Collisions." Joe is also Poet In Residence at Salem College.
With a Ph.D. in
Literature from the University of California, Davis, Joe has also published
academic criticism of some very well known American personalities and
essayists, including Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, George S. Schuyler, James
Thurber, Woody Allen, and the Marx Brothers.
Don't miss this
meeting! You will enjoy an entertaining
presentation from an expert in life's finer things and you just may be inspired
to take your own road trip to sample some wine! Joe promises to read us some
excerpts from the recently published "Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and
Hamlet."
