july
26jul10:00 am12:00 pmSigning with author Ashley OliphantHemingway in Bimini 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Event Details
Books & Books presents Ashley Oliphant signing her books Hemingway and Bimini and In Search of Jimmy Buffett: A Key
Event Details
Books & Books presents
Ashley Oliphant
signing her books
Hemingway and Bimini and
In Search of Jimmy Buffett: A Key West Revival
Saturday, July 26th, 10am-12pm
in the bookstore.
Join us for a mimosa (while supplies last) and meet the author.
Dr. Ashley Oliphant is a retired Professor of English with teaching specialties in 20th-century American literature, the works of Ernest Hemingway, literary modernism, and rhetoric and composition. She travels all over the United States offering interactive shark tooth and seashell workshops for children and adults and presentations about her other books. She is a longtime member of the Hemingway Society and a contributor to its conferences and The Hemingway Review.
Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at 'The End of the World' follows Hemingway's 1930's fishing adventures in Bimini, the westernmost Bahamian island, from 1935-1937 and his significant contribution to the founding of the International Game Fish Association. Oliphants research for the book was completed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston on an Ernest Hemingway Research Grant.
Her fourth book, a novel titled In Search of Jimmy Buffett: A Key West Revival tells the story of Livie Green, an English professor at a rural North Carolina university who has a bit of a meltdown and moves to Key West in the middle of a semester to become a waitress in a bar. Having convinced herself that she has written the perfect Jimmy Buffett song, she spends her tropical nights waiting in his old haunts for one of his legendary surprise visits and the chance to meet her hero.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Oliphant is an animal welfare advocate in her local community. As the founder of the Humane Voters of Lincoln County, she spearheaded the successful movement to end the use of the gas chamber at her county shelter. She is the chairperson of Lincoln County’s Animal Services Advisory Board and has worked for years to help the shelter achieve and then maintain its No Kill designation.
In her spare time, Oliphant likes to hunt for shark teeth and seashells, garden, travel with her family (including her son Miller and her husband Chris) and float in her swimming pool. She has two cats, Irish Kevin and Tuna. Her lifelong dreams are to own a signed first edition of Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" and to meet Willie Nelson.
Not in Key West? Call the store to order books to be signed and shipped. 305-320-0208
This is a in-store book signing, not a reading so
guests are welcome to come by anytime between 10am and 12pm.
august
30aug11:00 am1:00 pmSigning: SOUL OF KEY WEST with Ralph De PalmaSoul of Key West 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Event Details
Books & Books and Just A Few Friends presents Ralph De Palmasigning his books The Soul of Key West, Volumes 1-3
Event Details
Books & Books and Just A Few Friends presents
Ralph De Palma
signing his books
The Soul of Key West, Volumes 1-3
Saturday, August 30th, 11am-1pm
in the bookstore.
Join us for a mimosa (while supplies last) and meet the author.
ABOUT THE BOOKS:
The Soul of Key West is a 104 page anthology of the Key West music scene, as told by the musicians. Their stories are the true description of the lives of professional musicians. The book includes 46 interviews, and over 200 hundred photographs, including six new updated photos.
Volume 2 took two years to complete and includes a thorough analysis of the Key West music scene that tries to answer the question “How did all this music happen in this tiny island community?” Another 65 wonderful musicians, vocalist, and a dancer were included.
Volume 3 covers over 45 Key West musicians plus very interesting discussions of Key West music scene giants including Hall of Fame Song Writer Shel Silverstein as described by the Key West musicians that collaborated with him.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
"My career began in aviation after a brief Army tour. I worked for Eastern Airlines in the 1970's, obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration from Florida International University in Miami. Then worked at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in the Orbiter Processing Facility as a technical supervisor of the Crew Module. I helped process 17 Space Shuttle Missions. 
I began using Photoshop in the late 90s to process images for websites, etc. Digital photography was a natural progression from software to imageware and creative photography. I curate a library of over 150,000 images of Key West.
I have been photographing and documenting the Key West music scene for twenty years. I’ve interviewed and written about 185 of our musicians and counting. I have studied and compared Key West with other music destinations.
As a young man my love of music was interrupted as life got in the way. Now as a full time music performance photographer, and author of the Soul of Key West, Volume I, II, & III, plus the Soul of Havana, I truly have a song in my heart."
Not in Key West? Call the store to order books to be signed and shipped. 305-320-0208
This is a in-store book signing, not a reading so
guests are welcome to come by anytime between 11am and 1pm.
This event is part of the 2nd Annual Just A Few Friends Favorite Fun Celebration - August 29 to September 1. Visit justafewfriendskeywest.com for more information.