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

Our PicNic Book Release Party at Ashford Manor was Wonderful!