Toast the New Year with author/philosopher Marietta McCarty

Come celebrate the coming new year at Marietta’s all-time favorite indie bookstore—ever-charming Stone Soup Books in downtown Waynesboro. Owner Mary Katharine Froehlich roots her passion for books in community, she toasts 2023 with hot cocoa and molasses cookies. Marietta brings her signing pen and tidings of joy, looking forward to seeing friends old and new. Her latest book, Leaving 1203, offers a look back at the forever lessons she relearned while emptying her beloved-by-four-generations childhood home. And, given the hardship of the past couple of years, she looks forward to sharing these clear reminders of what really matters that now serve perfectly as the blueprint for a better future. Relationship, gratitude, humor, humility, sacrifice, simple pleasures? Whoa! let’s get it on. Signed copies of Leaving 1203 are already in the shop and Marietta’s happy to personalize. If you can’t make it to Stone Soup on the big day, call or email Mary Katharine with your order, if and how you’d like copies personalized, and addresses for mailing copies.