Library salutes local storytellers ... and sexy vampires

SINK YOUR TEETH IN A GOOD STORY
Brenda Rees and Norma Hubbard will appear at the library on 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The “New Moon” party will be at 5:30 p.m., Nov. 19 in the Destin Chamber of Commerce Meeting Room located in Regatta Bay at 4484 Legendary Drive, Suite A. For more details, call Destin Library at 837-8572.


Next week at the Destin Library: Florida history. The week after that: Best-selling vampires.

On Tuesday, the library will host Walton County native and historian Brenda Rees and Southern writer Norma Hubbard for a storytelling session. Library Director Jurate Burns told The Log that it’s part of the annual joint program shared by the Friends of Destin Library and the Destin Garden Club.

“Looking around for topics, we thought it would be nice to have Norma back as a storyteller,” Burns said, “and Rees, and then we said let’s have both of them.”

Rees, a historian who has researched early Walton County history and presented at Chautauqua and at the 2006 Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, will portray Octavia Walton Le Vert, daughter of Walton County namesake George Walton Jr.  Hubbard, a New Orleans born-and-raised novelist, will perform a one-woman show about the life of the Seminole leader Osceola.

On Thursday, Nov. 19, Destin Library will extend its services to the east end of Destin, with a party at the Destin Chamber of Commerce meeting room to celebrate the midnight release of “New Moon,” the second film based on Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” novels.

The library held a Twlight part in its Calhoun Room in August.

“It was very successful,” Burns said. “We want to try to reach out to people further away who might not come to the library or might not be old enough to drive.”

A library news release said the event is free and open to everyone of all ages, on a first-come, first-served basis, and will include trivia contests and discussions of Meyer’s novels.