This is the third year of the SEYA book festival at MTSU. Every year there seem to be more authors brought in, some of them very well known in the young adult circuit. Adam Silveri, Mackenzi Lee, Margaret Haddix, Kendare Blake, Alwyn Hamilton, Melissa Landers, and many others were featured this year. The authors host panels and the signings are free. The authors books are also offered for sale in the MTSU bookstore. The authors are always lovely and charming and willing to chat and it's fun to watch so many young adults so absolutely excited over authors and books. If you have a middle schooler or teenager into books, this is the event to bring them to. I've gone all three years and each time has been worth it. Kendare Blake is the coolest and the nicest. I'd fight a man for half her talent.
A word on etiquette to those going: Don't be rude. I got talking to some of the people who work at the MTSU bookstore while standing in line and they were quite frustrated with people bringing 10 or more books for an author to sign at a time. This was causing the line to back up and considering the authors were only signing for about an hour it was causing people to be turned away without getting ANYTHING signed. There was also an unspeakably rude woman right behind me in line who had several altercations with the staff demanding they do things for her (like give her free bottles of water) and bulldozing other people at the festival. Basically, don't be THAT person. These people have been working hard for three days and everyone is there to have a good time. Don't make us all judge you like we were all doing that woman.
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I didn't see any wild turkey on the Wild Turkey Trail (alcoholic or otherwise), but I did hear them at one point. I DID see a massive herd of deer though. I would claim that the Wild Turkey Trail is the least used of any of Henry Horton's three trails, the reason being that it is located in a rather odd place and not in the main park area adjacent to the campground. Nor does the trail feature any major geological or natural features that would cause someone to seek it out specifically (the Mill Trail and the Boundary Trail both have some interesting landmarks on them). What the Wild Turkey Trail is is a nice 1.5 mile trail that goes up a small ridge, across it, and makes a loop. There are some benches on the trail but none of them are made near anything particularly picturesque. There's a small pond that is more wet weather than anything else that has a bench and one bench just placed at seeming random. And herein lies the issue with the trail. It floods. Badly. The Mill Trail understandably does with its proximity to the Duck River, but the Wild Turkey Trail always catches me off guard by how wet it is. The above picture is a gully that fills with water. The trail actually goes through the middle of it. There were at least two cases where we had to get off the trail and go around flooded areas. And this was several days after the rain had gone through. Basically be ready for mud and standing water if there has been the slightest amount of precipitation.
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AuthorA librarian who likes to travel and experience life. CategoriesArchives
June 2022
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