{"id":543,"date":"2005-03-28T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.lib.utk.edu\/news\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/an-evening-with-sam-venable\/"},"modified":"2005-03-28T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T20:47:54","slug":"an-evening-with-sam-venable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2005\/03\/an-evening-with-sam-venable\/","title":{"rendered":"An evening with Sam Venable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author to speak at Tennessee Reads book club on April 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You are invited to join Tennessee Reads for an evening with author and award-winning <i>Knoxville News-Sentinel<\/i> columnist Sam Venable, Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m., at the University Club (Kingston Pike and Neyland Drive).<\/p>\n<p>Venable will discuss his book <i>Rock-Elephant: A Story of Friendship and Fishing<\/i>, a poignant account of his 27-year friendship with Ray Hubbard, a sewing machine repairman, lay preacher and excellent bass angler. Although the two men were very different, they shared a love of the outdoors and bass fishing that allowed them to develop a deep and lasting friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee Reads is a book club that celebrates the outstanding literature of Tennessee and features titles from the University of Tennessee Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author to speak at Tennessee Reads book club on April 12 You are invited to join Tennessee Reads for an evening with author and award-winning Knoxville News-Sentinel columnist Sam Venable, Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m., at the University Club (Kingston Pike and Neyland Drive). Venable will discuss his book Rock-Elephant: A Story of Friendship &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2005\/03\/an-evening-with-sam-venable\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An evening with Sam Venable - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2005\/03\/an-evening-with-sam-venable\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An evening with Sam Venable - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Author to speak at Tennessee Reads book club on April 12 You are invited to join Tennessee Reads for an evening with author and award-winning Knoxville News-Sentinel columnist Sam Venable, Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m., at the University Club (Kingston Pike and Neyland Drive). 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