The Lanier Library has another busy week in its fall schedule beginning at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, September 21 with a performance by storyteller and musician Marilyn McMinn McCredie.

On Thursday, September 23, author and playwright Robert Inman will discuss his adaptation of the play Welcome to Mitford at 2 p.m.

On Friday and Saturday, September 24 and 25 the library is holding its fall book sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days (there is a members only preview on Thursday). All the programs are free and everyone is welcome.

Folklorist Marilyn McMinn McCredie performs as a story teller and ballad singer throughout the southern Appalachians and in elder hostels in other areas of the country. She is a native of Henderson County from a family who held land there since the land grant days. She grew up steeped in the culture, traditions and folk ways of the area and uses this experience as a basis for her stories and songs.

Her program is part of the Librarys Brown Bag Lunch series and begins at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, September 21.

Following the publication of his book Coming Home in 2000, Robert Inmans first play, Crossroads, was received to wide acclaim in 2003 and since then he has written The Drama Club, A High Country Christmas and Welcome to Mitford, a dramatic adaptation of the Mitford novels by Jan Karon. In conjunction with the Tryon Little Theater, Inman will discuss his play at 2 p.m. at the Lanier Library, prior to the first performance of the play at the TLT Theater Workshop the same evening.

Inman began his career as a journalist as a printers devil at&bsp; his hometown newspaper in Elba, Alabama. After earning B.A&bsp; and M.F.A. degrees at the University of Alabama he moved to Charlotte to become a TV journalist for WBTV. Now enjoying a second career as an author and playwright, Inman and his wife divide their time between Charlotte and Boone.

Hundreds of newly donated books will be available at the Lanier Librarys fall book sale. The sale will take place at the library on Friday and Saturday, September 24 and 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Library members may preview the sale on Thursday, September 23.