BOONE– Guitar duo Pasquale Rucco and Douglas James will perform Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. in Appalachian State University’s Broyhill Music Center. [more]

BOONE– Francisco Fernández del Castillo Gómez has received a $3,000 fellowship from the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts. [more]

BOONE —A shotgun blast brings the dark secrets of a small, Midwest mining town to light when the Appalachian State University Department of Theatre and Dance presents Lanford Wilson’s “The Rimers of Eldritch” at the Valborg Theatre Nov. 14-19 at 8 p.m. [more]

BOONE —Poet, fiction writer and magazine editor Richard Peabody will speak at Appalachian State University as part of the Visiting Writers Series on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Linville Falls Room, Plemmons Student Union. [more]

BOONE —Julia Adams and Jeannine Underdown Collins of Boone and William L. Brown of Gastonia have been installed as officers of Appalachian State University’s Alumni Association for 2001-02. [more]

by Thomas McGowen
(McGowan is a folklorist in the Department of English at Appalachian State University)

BOONE—Jeff and Gerret Warner, along with Frank Proffit Jr., will perform in a benefit concert Nov. 12 at Appalachian State University. [more]

BOONE — Neal Lineback, professor of geography at Appalachian State University, has received the Geography Educator of the Year Award from the North Carolina Geographical Society. [more]