BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Friends of Old Town - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Friends of Old Town REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T130000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250912T204916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T204916Z UID:10000094-1759575600-1759582800@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Leenie Hobbie - Elder Legacies DESCRIPTION:Can two young women rely on their traditional herbal knowledge and skills to make their way in a world constructed by and for men? Amid world war and rampant disease\, they discover they must also catch a murderer. Come meet first time local author Leenie Hobbie and get your signed copy. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-leenie-hobbie-elder-legacies/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Author-Event-Leenie-Hobbie-Elder-Legacies-.png ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250914T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250914T140000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250807T205621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250807T205621Z UID:10000071-1757851200-1757858400@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Sandra Jackson-Opoku - Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes DESCRIPTION:With SAVVY SUMMERS AND THE SWEET POTATOCRIMES award-winning author Sandra Jackson-Opoku presents a sparkling debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago\, featuring the quick-witted\, unforgettable Savvy Summers\, proprietor of a soul food café. \nWhen Savvy first opened Essie’s soul food café\, she never expected her customer-favorite sweet potato pie to become the center of a murder investigation. But when Grandy Jaspers\, the 75-year-oldneighborhood womanizer\, drops dead at table two\, she suddenly has more to worry about than just maintaining Essie’s reputation for the finest soul food in the Chicagoland area. \nEven as the police deem Grandy’s death an accident\, Savvy quickly finds herself—and her beloved café—in the middle of an entire city’s worth of bad press. Desperate to clear her name and keep her business afloat\, Savvy and her snooping assistant manager\, Penny Lopés\, take it upon themselves to find who really killed Grandy. \nBut with a slimy investor harassing her to sell her name and business\, customers avoiding her sweet potato pie like the plague\, and her police sergeant ex-husband suddenly back in the picture\, will Savvy be able to clear the café’s name and solve Grandy’s murder before it all falls apart? \nSandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of the award-winning novel\, The River Where Blood is Born and Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him\, an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. She also coedited the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks. Her fiction\, nonfiction\, and dramatic works are widely published and produced in Adi Magazine\, Midnight & Indigo\, Aunt Chloe\, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction\, New Daughters of Africa\, Obsidian\, Another Chicago Magazine\, story South\, Lifeline Theatre\, the Chicago Humanities Festival\, and others. Professional recognition includes a Plentitudes Journal Prize\, the Hearst Foundation James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell Arts\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship\, an American Library Association Black Caucus Award\, a City of Chicago Esteemed Artist Award\, the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award\, a Globe Soup Story Award\, the Joan Perry Barnes Fellow in Crime Writing at Story knife Writers Retreat and a Pushcart Prize nomination. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-sandra-jackson-opoku-savvy-summers-and-the-sweet-potato-crimes/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Author-Event-Sandra-Jackson-Opoku-Savvy-Summers-and-the-Sweet-Potato-Crimes-.png ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T130000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250804T132650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250804T132650Z UID:10000064-1757761200-1757768400@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Leah Rampy - Earth & Soul DESCRIPTION:Amidst accelerating climate devastation and an uncertain future comes a clarion call to renew a deep and personal relationship with Earth. Facing directly into the devastation of climate chaos and biodiversity loss\, Rampy leads her readers on a soul journey into grief and loss to also claim the beauty\, joy and possibilities available when we reconnect with Earth. As we follow the author’s compelling personal experiences and engagingly lyrical stories of whales\, cedars\, sparrows\, and more\, we see the necessity and urgency of learning from the wisdom of our kin in the natural world. Writing at the intersection of spirituality\, ecology\, and story\, Leah Rampy illuminates a path to reweaving nature and soul. Under Rampy’s deft guidance\, the beauty and genius of this sacred world unfolds before us. Even now when the world as we knew it is ending and a new story lies beyond what we can envision\, we may live fully alive and lay stepping stones toward a diverse and vibrant world of oneness and mutual flourishing. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-leah-rampy-earth-soul/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Rampy-FrontCover-Final-HiRes-Oct301.png ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T130000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250716T185641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250716T185641Z UID:10000057-1755342000-1755349200@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Bryan Lienesch - Happyland DESCRIPTION:Stop by the Book Gallery to meet thriller author B. C. Lienesch and celebrate his latest publication! Dive back into the world of Jackson Clay with brand new mysteries and the self-same darkness we’ve come to expect from his adventures. \nSee you there! URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-bryan-lienesch-happyland/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Lienesch.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T160000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250717T205820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T205820Z UID:10000058-1754748000-1754755200@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Steven O'Farrell - Simone LaFray Mysteries DESCRIPTION:Stop by the Winchester Book Gallery to meet Steve O’Farrell and take home a signed copy of his newest middle grade mystery! Simone LaFray is a globetrotting investigator – join her on her latest case! URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-steven-ofarrell-simone-lafray-mysteries/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ofarrell.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250802T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250802T130000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250714T132826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T132826Z UID:10000056-1754132400-1754139600@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Nicole Hanlin – Unlock the Power of Potential DESCRIPTION:Author Nicole Hanlin will join us this Saturday for a signing of her newest publication! Stop by to learn more about her latest work in self-investment and career development\, and to Unlock Your Potential! URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-nicole-hanlin-unlock-the-power-of-potential/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hanlin8.2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250801T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250801T190000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250714T132839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T132839Z UID:10000055-1754067600-1754074800@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Winchester Book Gallery Anniversary Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us this Friday\, August 1st\, 5-7pm\, to help us celebrate our 14th year of owning the Winchester Book Gallery! \nSupport from our community here in Winchester means the world\, and we’d love the opportunity to thank everyone who holds us up! URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/winchester-book-gallery-anniversary-reception/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/anniversary-14.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250713T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250713T140000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250612T144922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250612T144922Z UID:10000046-1752408000-1752415200@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Sean Hagerty - Jones Point and Cabal DESCRIPTION:Jones Point – After his daughter is abducted a Special Operations Soldier joins forces with a mysterious cabal of parents\, finding and punishing child predators. Always searching for his lost Angel\, Dane Cooper suffers regret\, finds redemptions\, and exacts revenge. \nCabal – Dane Cooper continues his mission from Jones Point\, searching for his daughter while hunting the Keeper. The cabal knows the Keeper is coordinating abductions among other child predators. However\, the monsters decide to fight back\, and after several gruesome murders\, the Cabal realizes they have become the hunted. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-sean-hagerty-jones-point-and-cabal/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Joines-Point-and-Cabal-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250712T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250712T130000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250627T140339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250627T140339Z UID:10000051-1752318000-1752325200@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Mike Maggio - A Brief Gazelle: Poems of Love and Grief DESCRIPTION:This collection of love poems\, written over several decades is “inhabited by birds and celestial beings\, flower and trees\, lakes and seas\, and lover who appear and disappear like gazelles.” \nCome visit the Winchester Book Gallery to meet author Mike Maggio and grab a signed copy of A Brief Gazelle! URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-mike-maggio-a-brief-gazelle-poems-of-love-and-grief/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Author-Event-Mike-Maggio-A-Brief-Gazelle-Poems-of-Love-and-Grief.png ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250705T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250705T130000 DTSTAMP:20260530T054723 CREATED:20250704T125808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250704T125808Z UID:10000052-1751713200-1751720400@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Henry Rausch - How to Hotwire an Airplane DESCRIPTION:Stop by this Saturday for your signed copy of Henry Rausch’s newest book! Through protagonist Hiram Bleeker\, learn about the healing power of love\, redemption through sacrifice\, and how to hot-wire an airplane. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-henry-rausch-how-to-hotwire-an-airplane/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/rausch-7.5.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR