On Sunday, September 12 from 4:00 to 6:00 Children’s book publisher, Jonquil Books, along with author Grady Thrasher and illustrator Elaine Rabon, invited everyone to a fabulous book release party for Tim and Sally's Year in Poems on the lawn at Ashford Manor complete with celebrity readers, Pam Blanchard and the Sunny-Side Up Band and lots of wonderful souvenirs! Here is what the Oconee Leader had to say about the party:

"The picnic Thrasher and Rabon threw on Sunday celebrated simple summer pleasures like splashing toes in a clear pool of water and throwing a multi-colored beach ball into the warm, late-summer air.
 
“As proof that the picnic and party harkened back to a simpler and more sedate time, consider this. For all of the grandparents, parents and children who filled virtually every space on the lawn of Ashford Manor, not a one was checking e-mail on a Blackberry or texting a friend on a cell phone. Instead young and old alike were chatting, relaxing and enjoying some highly uncomplicated and unfussy joys." Click here for the full article