Episode 494 || The Mississippi Book Festival Turns 10!

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week on From the Front Porch, Annie celebrates 10 years of The Mississippi Book Festival with its executive director, Ellen Rodgers Daniels! They talk about the festival’s history, what’s on the agenda for this year, and why you should plan to attend if you can. The Mississippi Book Festival begins on September 14, 2024. Learn more and make your plan to attend here. 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, Tiktok, and Facebook, 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...Jennifer Bannerton, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Susan Hulings, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, and Amanda Whigham.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Welcome to this episode of From the Front Porch, a conversational
0:28.1	podcast about books, small business, and life in the South. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf,
0:35.0	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:38.0	And today I'm back with the Executive Director of the Mississippi Book Festival,
0:43.3	Ellen Rogers Daniels, to discuss what's on the agenda
0:46.6	for this year's festival, scheduled for September 14th,
0:50.1	and why you should make plans to attend.
0:52.8	Hi Ellen, welcome back.
0:54.3	Hi Amy, thank you so much for having me back.
0:56.9	It's so nice to see you again.
0:58.8	I had the privilege and pleasure of actually you convinced me last year of the podcast you did your job and I
1:06.1	came to the Mississippi Book Festival and it was one of the highlights of my year
1:09.6	last year at such a great time thank you so much for being back.
1:13.0	Oh, well, thank you for having me back.
1:15.0	And it was the hottest day of the year last year on the festival,
1:20.0	and hopefully if you come back this year,
1:22.0	it won't be like that.
1:24.4	Okay so that's one of the things I'm so curious to talk to you.
1:27.2	This is the 10 year anniversary of the festival.
1:31.0	Before I kind of launch into some questions about maybe some things that have
1:34.4	changed, I noticed kind of a date change. I'm so curious about the impetus behind that. But
1:38.9	before we do that, if people did not happen to hear your episode last year, Ellen came on the show last year,
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