Greensboro Bound, Well-Spring Retirement Community, and the Greensboro Public Library invite you to Southern Apples Lost and Found: The People & Places Behind 300 Years of Apples in the South, with Diane Flynt on February 20 at 4 pm in the Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre at Well-Spring Community, 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, North Carolina
This event is free and open to the public, however a reservation is required at this link.
Diane Flynt, the author of WILD, TAMED, LOST, REVIVED: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South, is a multiple-time James Beard Award finalist for Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional. Flynt founded Foggy Ridge Cider in 1997 after leaving her corporate career and produced cider until 2018. She now sells cider apples from the Foggy Ridge orchards in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains.
For anyone who has ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and cidermaker Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation. Showing how southerners cultivated over 2,000 apple varieties from Virginia to Mississippi, ranging from northern varieties that flourished on southern soil to hyper-local varieties grown by a single family in one county, Flynt shares surprising stories of a fruit that was central to the region for over two hundred years.
Alongside this apple history, Flynt traces the arc of her own journey as a pioneering farmer in the southern Appalachians who planted cider apples never grown in the region and founded the first modern cidery in the South. She threads her own story with archival research and interviews with orchardists, farmers, and cidermakers. The result is not only the definitive story of apples in the South, but also a new way to challenge our notions of history.
This event is presented as part of the Greensboro Public Library’s One City, One Book event offerings. Every other year, the Greensboro Public Library, along with the Greensboro Public Library Foundation and a host of community partners, sponsors the One City, One Book community read. This year’s selection is The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food, a collection of essays exploring our heritage through food-related stories set in North Carolina, edited by the late Randall Kenan. The library is hosting a series of events and book discussions related to the One City, One Book read. The Greensboro Bound Literary Festival was created in 2017 as a project of the 501(c)3 non-profit Greensboro Literary Organization for readers, writers, students, academics, authors, and volunteers who are passionate about books, reading, and writing. 