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The Stone Talker: Una Hosts Tom Hendrix For Fine Arts Festival Luncheon April 17

Mar. 20, 2009



Michelle Eubanks, UNA, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033

The Stone Talker: UNA Hosts Tom Hendrix For Fine Arts Festival Luncheon April 17

FLORENCE, Ala. - The University of North Alabama National Alumni Association will host author and storyteller Tom Hendrix at 11:30 a.m. April 17 in the Guillot University Center Loft. The event is part of the 2009 UNA Fine Arts Festival and Writers Series.

The Writers Series is hosting Native American poet and musician Joy Hargo April 16 and 17. Hendrix, known as the Stone Talker, built the famed Te-lah-nay's Wall just off the Natchez Trace near Florence. It is an unmortared stone wall that took more than 27 years to build. Hendrix built the wall in honor of his great-great-grandmother, Te-lah-nay, of the Yuchi tribe. Tickets to the luncheon are $25. All proceeds will benefit the Books-A-Million/T.S. Stribling Endowed Scholarship for the literary arts at UNA. Make reservations by calling the Office of Alumni Relations at 256-765-4201, or go to www.una.edu/alumni and click 2009 Fine Arts Festival.

About The University of North Alabama

The University of North Alabama is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The University of North Alabama is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: una.edu and una.edu/unaworks/.