The Statesboro Herald is featuring an article on Henderson Library’s Ben Franklin exhibit and the events surrounding it.  Check it out here.

Tomorrow, Jan. 21, is your last chance to purchase raffle tickets before the drawing at the Friends of the Library dinner at Christopher’s.  You do not have to be present to win!  The prize is a 16 x 20-inch, framed and signed “Limited Edition” print of the renovated & expanded Zach S. Henderson Library, by photographer Frank Fortune.  Raffle tickets are $5 each.  Please contact Ms. Alva Wilbanks, Secretary to the Dean, for your ticket, at 912-478-5115 or awilbanks@georgiasouthern.edu, or stop by the Library Administration Office on the 3rd floor of Henderson Library.

More details on tomorrow’s dinner are at http://zachsnews.edublogs.org/2008/12/08/gourmet/

Gourmet Food & Wine Pairing with special guest Damon Lee Fowler
benefitting the Henderson Library of Georgia Southern University

What: Five-course gourmet pairing*
When: Wed., 21 Jan 2009, 6:30-9pm
Where: Christopher’s Restaurant
$85 per person, $150 per couple
To reserve tickets for the dinner or associated events, contact ddupont@georgiasouthern.edu, 912-478-5115 or 478-0093 (fax).

Enjoy a musical serenade by the exceptional Dr. Michael Braz & a sumptuous,
five-course gourmet meal & wine tasting* with guest speaker Damon Lee Fowler for the inaugural Friends of the Henderson Library Annual Fundraising Dinner.

Associated Events

Book Signing: Fowler, chef & culinary historian, will sign copies of his current work, The Savannah Cookbook, which can be reserved for advance purchase. A nationally recognized authority on Southern cooking & the feature food writer for Savannah Morning News, Mr. Fowler is the author of 6 critically acclaimed cookbooks & has been nominated for two Julia Child cookbook awards & a James Beard Foundation award. Recipes from his new book include Savannah’s “signature drink” Chatham Artillery Punch, Savannah Flatbread, which dates back to the city’s colonial days, and Sherried Shrimp, one of Fowler’s favorites.

Raffle of Limited Edition, Signed Frank Fortune Photo: The Friends of the Henderson Library are also hosting a raffle for a brilliant, limited edition, signed Frank Fortune photograph of the newly renovated Zach S. Henderson Library of Georgia Southern University. Only ten copies of this 16″ x 20″ high-resolution photo are available. The framed copy for the raffle is valued at $250; nine unframed, signed copies are available for purchase for $125 each.

To reserve tickets for the dinner, a signed copy of The Savannah Cookbook, or to purchase a raffle ticket or an unframed copy of the photo, please contact ddupont@georgiasouthern.edu, 912-478-5115 or 912-478-0093 (fax).

*A specially prepared pairing by the chefs of Christopher’s. No substitutions. If you have a food allergy, please indicate this when you reserve tickets.

Have you checked out the newly renovated and expanded Zach S. Henderson Library yet?  We’ve uploaded lots of photos to Flickr.  Thanks to Steve Hooley, Kendria Lee, Lori Lester, and Sonya Shepherd for their work on this photo gallery!

Flickr Gallery:  Learning Commons Soft Opening, Sept. 22, 2008

Enjoy a gourmet luncheon and support the GSU Henderson Library!

The annual Friends of the Henderson Library luncheon features an exceptional menu prepared by the students within Georgia Southern University’s Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Family & Consumer Sciences. Join us for a special presentation by Dr. Patrick Novotny, author and associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia Southern University, for a discussion of his most recent book, This Georgia Rising, “a detailed study of the gubernatorial races of the 1940s as they are interwoven with the larger political and social changes of wartime and then postwar Georgia.”

Cost: $20

Seating is limited! To reserve your spot, call the Henderson Library Dean’s Office, 478-5115, between 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

MENU

*Spinach Salad w/Marinated Shiitakes & Red Onions *Roasted Quail & Charbroiled Minute Steak w/Blue Cheese Butter *Lyonnaise Potatoes *Peas, Carrots & pearl Onions w/Tarragon *Fresh Banana Fritters w/ Vanilla Ice Cream

And here’s a handy flyer.  Please pass it along!  Flyer for Friends Luncheon

For more information on supporting Henderson Library, please click here.

The Friends of Henderson Library would like to thank our supporters for their generous gifts in 2007. We invite you to join the Friends.