Sat, Jun 21
|Shenandoah Valley Arts Center
Join Stone Soup Books for a special event "Packing up the Past" at the Shenandoah Valley Arts Center in Waynesboro.
Marietta McGarty and Russell Hart discuss packing up a loved one's belongings. They'll discuss their personal journeys in their acclaimed books.
Time & Location
Jun 21, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Shenandoah Valley Arts Center, 126 S Wayne Ave, Waynesboro, VA 22980, USA
About the Event
Stone Soup Books is honored to host this special event with two celebrated authors:
Marietta McGarty and Russell Hart share personal accounts of packing up a loved one's belongings. Facilitated by Bonner Odell, founder of The Writer's Well, they will discuss the journeys in their acclaimed books:
Leaving 1203: Emptying a Home~ Filling the Heart
by Marietta McGarty
About the Book: Bereaved following her mother’s death, McCarty faces the daunting task of emptying her beloved family home. How might she find a way through the inevitable emotional turmoil and the accumulation of more than five decades in the house at 1203?
Told with McCarty’s characteristic wisdom, marvel, exuberance, and good will,