Janisse Ray to Keynote
ForestWatch WWFF
Renowned Georgia author Janisse Ray will highlight the 2011 Georgia ForestWatch Wild & Woolly Forest Festival & Native Plant Sale on Saturday, May 7 at the Sautee Nacoochee Center. Please join us in our seventh year of this fun and affordable fundraiser for supporting our forest protection work!
Janisse will focus her talk on "Inspiration to Protect Things We Love - How to Return to Wholeness." Ms. Ray is well known as the author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, which won the New York Times Notable Book Award and was chosen as The Book All Georgians Should Read. Janisse has also authored two other books of prose and a book of poetry, A House of Branches, just out in 2010. For more information on Janisse, go to
www.facebook.com/pages/Janisse-RayA fabulous array of native plants from Jennie Branch Nursery, Scott Creek Nursery, the Pickens County Master Gardener's plant sale, Saul's Nursery, and others will be available for sale, and as always, there will be plenty of food, wine for tasting, music and a special raffle of an exciting biplane ride! The public is invited.
SCHEDULEFestivities start at 11 a.m., with the plant sale, food, and wine tasting. Around 3:15 p.m. the plant sale wraps up and two outstanding talks start soon thereafter. Janisse Ray will be available for book signing from 5:30 - 6 p.m.
This year a special potluck supper and contra dance will also be held in the evening. Come at 6 p.m. for the potluck - free admission - just bring a dish for all to share. The dance starts with lessons at 7 p.m., and the dance runs from 7:30 - 10:30.
Get your tickets early and save!Tickets for the plant sale, food, wine tasting, and talks are $20 on-line at
www.gafw.org or $25 at the door. Children 12 and under get in free. Admission for the contra dance is separate and at the door only - $8 for adults, $7 for Sautee Nacoochee Center members, and $4 for kids.
The Sautee Nacoochee Center is located at 283 Highway 255 N, just north of the Old Sautee Store at the intersection of highways 17 and 255, 4.5 miles south of Helen Georgia , and 11 miles west of Clarkesville.
Join us for this festive event!
