Bonus Episode || Planning a Book Festival with Ellen Rodgers Daniels

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today on From the Front Porch, we have a special bonus episode for you! Annie is joined by Ellen Rodgers Daniels, the Executive Director of the Mississippi Book Festival, to chat about planning this literary lawn party. From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:08.0	Welcome to this bonus episode of From the Front porch.
0:28.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:32.6	Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm sitting down with the executive director of the Mississippi
0:37.6	Book Festival, Ellen Rogers Daniels, to discuss the impetus behind a Southern Book Festival
0:43.2	and what it takes to run a successful event for readers and authors alike.
0:48.0	This year's festival is on August 19, which gives you plenty of time to make plans to attend.
0:53.4	Hi, Ellen.
0:54.4	Hi, how are you?
0:57.0	I'm doing wonderfully, so good to be with you, Annie.
1:00.4	Oh, I'm so glad you're here.
1:02.0	I'm so glad to get to talk with you.
1:03.9	I'm anxious to hear more about the festival.
1:07.4	We participate in a book and music festival in Tallahassee, Florida, which is near to Thomasville.
1:15.2	It's called Word of South, and I was one of the founding kind of board members of that event,
1:21.3	and I'm just so curious about what it takes to move from, you know, a committee meeting
1:28.5	to a successful, full day's worth of events.
1:32.7	The numbers of how many people come to the Mississippi Book Festival are astounding to me.
1:37.6	I was looking through some of the documents that you've seen over before, and I just am amazed
1:42.9	by that kind of participation, that level of participation in the South, especially.
1:47.4	So why don't you tell me, I guess, first of all, kind of who the festival is for, and maybe
1:52.8	what its original purpose and mission was.
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