Need some space to write? Come and stay at the Boyd House at Weymouth Center and settle in for a week at the renowned Writer-In-Residence program. Click below for the application.
You’re invited to enter the 2020 Moore County Writer’s Competition! This year is our first themed competition honoring the works of J.K. Rowling. We invite writers of all ages to be inspired by the magic of Rowling’s tremendous legacy. Enter your original, unpublished work that is not currently an entry in any other competitions. The work must be written within the broad realm of the work of J.K. Rowling.
Categories are Poety, Fiction and Nonfiction.
Age Groups are grades 1-4, grades 5-8, grades 9-12, and adult.
Deadline for entries is Friday, February 21, 2020, at 5 p.m.
Winners will be contacted via email and awards will be presented at the Wizards of Weymouth Literature & Literacy Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2020.
For information and guidelines, please click HERE.
The James Boyd Book Club meets the third Tuesday of the month from September to May at 2:00 p.m. in the Weymouth Center Library. This club is free and open to the public.
Necessary Lies, By Diane Chamberlain
UPCOMING:
18 February The Guardian, by Nicholas Sparks
17 March Louise’s War, by Sarah Shaber
21 April The Gulf, by Belle Boggs
19 May “Show and Tell” What NC book do you recommend?
Bring your instrument and your love of music. The musician’s jam session and song circle meets monthly on the last Tuesday from 6-9PM. All are welcome. This event is free and open to the public.
LYRICOSA QUARTET
Sunday, February 2, 2020, 2:00 p.m.
Carol Chung & Julia Reeves, violins
Simon Ertz, viola
Rosalind Leavell, cello
Featuring the music of Haydn, Beethoven and Bartok.
The Lyricosa Quartet is a string quartet based in Raleigh, NC. Lyricosa strives to bring to their audiences a deeper understanding and sense of intimacy with the music they perform.
Cape Fear – A Splendid Stage of American History with speaker Kevin Duffus.
Part 2 of 3 / $15 per part / Tickets available at www.weymouthcenter.org (Event Tickets) and TicketMeSandhills.com.
Part Two: Lighthouses and Lifesaving at Cape Fear / Sunday, February 16, 2020-2:00 PM / Cape Fear’s Three Lighthouses 1795-1903, their history, their keepers, and their fates; President Jefferson and the lighthouse keeper’s wife; the “Ansel Adams” of American lighthouses; the amazing and tragic odyssey of the second most historic lighthouse Fresnel lens in the nation; the “Age of Oars,” shipwrecks, lifesavers John Watts and Dunbar Davis, and the forgotten heroes of East Beach.
Part Three: Cape Fear’s Colorful Characters– Tax Evaders, Blockade Runners, Commandos, Dreamers, and Developers / Sunday, March 22, 2020– 2:00 PM / The Smiths of Smith Island, Civil War notables William Barker Cushing, Ambrose Hoke, Thomas Mann Thompson, Charlie Bahnson and the wreck of the Ella; the developers, Thomas Franklin Boyd, Frank Sherrill, William R. Henderson and the Carolina Cape Fear Corporation, Walter Davis, George Mitchell, and the Generator Society.
9:30 a.m. Sign-in. Meet & greet with coffee & tea. 10:00 a.m Business Meeting. Speaker follows.
Monday, February 17, 2020 | Jesse Wimberley, Sandhills Area Land Trust, Landowner Outreach and PBA Coordinator
Free and open to the public.
The James Boyd Book Club meets the third Tuesday of the month from September to May at 2:00 p.m. in the Weymouth Center Library. This club is free and open to the public.
18 February The Guardian, by Nicholas Sparks
UPCOMING:
17 March Louise’s War, by Sarah Shaber
21 April The Gulf, by Belle Boggs
19 May “Show and Tell” What NC book do you recommend?
The Finalists Concert at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 23, 2020, is open to the public.
Bring your instrument and your love of music. The musician’s jam session and song circle meets monthly on the last Tuesday from 6-9PM. All are welcome. This event is free and open to the public.
SYMPHONY WINDS
Sunday, March 1, 2020, 2:00 p.m.
Sandra Posch, oboe
Michael E. Cyzewski, clarinet
Victor Benedict, bassoon
Rachel Irene Niketopoulos, horn
Mary Boone, flute
Performing virtuosic works composed for the wind quintet, including Paul Taffanel and Julio Medaglia.
Since 1990, this virtuoso woodwind quintet has enthralled audiences with their display of accom-plished technique and musicianship which has provided an entertaining journey of discovery to enhance listening skills and increased appreciation of classical music. The musicians’ demonstrations of instruments keep audiences informed as well as entertained.
With special thanks, this concert has been sponsored by Dale & JoAnn Erickson.
9:30 a.m. Sign-in. Meet & greet with coffee & tea. 10:00 a.m Business Meeting. Speaker follows.
Monday, March 16, 2020 | Jacqueline Wade, Weymouth member and owner of International Safaris
Free and open to the public.
The James Boyd Book Club meets the third Tuesday of the month from September to May at 2:00 p.m. in the Weymouth Center Library. This club is free and open to the public.
17 March Louise’s War, by Sarah Shaber
UPCOMING:
21 April The Gulf, by Belle Boggs
19 May “Show and Tell” What NC book do you recommend?
Cape Fear – A Splendid Stage of American History with speaker Kevin Duffus.
Part 3 of 3 / $15 / Tickets available at www.weymouthcenter.org (Event Tickets) and TicketMeSandhills.com.
Part Three: Cape Fear’s Colorful Characters– Tax Evaders, Blockade Runners, Commandos, Dreamers, and Developers / The Smiths of Smith Island, Civil War notables William Barker Cushing, Ambrose Hoke, Thomas Mann Thompson, Charlie Bahnson and the wreck of the Ella; the developers, Thomas Franklin Boyd, Frank Sherrill, William R. Henderson and the Carolina Cape Fear Corporation, Walter Davis, George Mitchell, and the Generator Society.
Awards to the Moore County Writer’s Competition winners will be presented during the festival. Click HERE for more information about the competition.
Bring your instrument and your love of music. The musician’s jam session and song circle meets monthly on the last Tuesday from 6-9PM. All are welcome. This event is free and open to the public.
THE EZRA DUO
Sunday, April 5, 2020, 2:00 p.m.
Jacob Clewell, viola
Sasha Bult-Ito, piano
Playing music by Prokofiev, Brahms, Clarke and Kouyoumdjian.
Formed in 2016 at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, Ontario, the Ezra Duo has established itself as a performing ensemble of the highest caliber.
The duo are prize winners in numerous classical music competitions and premiered a new sonata written for them in June 2019. This season high-lights the virtuosity of true duo performance in “Art of the Duo”.
With special thanks, this concert has been sponsored by Jim & Mary Arnold.
9:30 a.m. Sign-in. Meet & greet with coffee & tea. 10:00 a.m Business Meeting. Speaker follows.
Monday, April 20, 2020 | Claire Reed with the Moore County 4-in-Hand Carriage Driving Club
Free and open to the public.
The James Boyd Book Club meets the third Tuesday of the month from September to May at 2:00 p.m. in the Weymouth Center Library. This club is free and open to the public.
21 April The Gulf, by Belle Boggs
UPCOMING:
19 May “Show and Tell” What NC book do you recommend?
Bring your instrument and your love of music. The musician’s jam session and song circle meets monthly on the last Tuesday from 6-9PM. All are welcome. This event is free and open to the public.