Authors PAMELA TERRY & MCPATTI LANGSTON with Musical Guest PAT TERRY

Matt Jolley is a national Edward R. Murrow Award winning feature reporter, and broadcaster who works as a host, writer and narrator.

In addition to his broadcast work, Matt is passionate about aviation and entertains the largest airshow audiences in the world, including Pacific Airshow Huntington Beach and Gold Coast Australia. In 2022, Pacific Airshow was the largest LIVE streamed event on Hulu, and since 2021 Matt has co-anchored the annual broadcast.

Matt’s work in airshows has earned him The International Council of Air Shows Pinnacle Award, and Special Achievement Award. He calls Fair Chance Farm home, and in his spare time, cares for vintage deHavilland airplanes and one old tractor.

A lifelong Southerner, Pamela Terry learned the power of storytelling at a very early age. Terry is the author of The Sweet Taste of Muscadines and the internationally popular blog From the House of Edward, which was named one of the top ten home blogs of the year by London’s The Telegraph. She lives in Georgia with her songwriter husband, Pat, and their three dogs, Apple, Andrew, and George. She travels to the Scottish Highlands as frequently as possible.

One woman fights to hold on to her friends, her family, and all that she holds dear as a brewing conflict divides her small-town Georgia community in this powerful novel from the author of The Sweet Taste of Muscadines.

“This book is a treasure. Pamela Terry writes with a poet’s ear and a wicked sense of comic timing.”—Nationally bestselling author Barbara O’Neal

On the morning after Harry Cline’s funeral, a rare ice storm hits the town of Wesleyan, Georgia. The community wakes up to find its controversial statue of Confederate general Henry Benning destroyed—and not by the weather. Half the town had wanted to remove the statue; the other half had wanted to preserve it. Now that the matter has been taken out of their hands, the town’s long-simmering tensions are laid bare.

Without Harry beside her, Marietta is left to question many of her preconceived ideas about her friends and family. Her childhood friend, Butter, has come to her aid in ways Marietta never expected or asked for. Her sister-in-law, Glinda, is behaving completely out of character, and her brother, Macon, the top defense attorney in the Southeast, is determined to find those responsible for the damage to the statue and protect the legacy of Old Man Griffin, the owner of the park where it once stood. Marietta longs to salvage these connections, but the world is changing and the divides can no longer be ignored.

With a cast of compassionate, relatable characters, When the Moon Turns Blue is a poignant and timely novel about family, friendship, and what can happen when we discover that we don’t particularly like the people we love.

McPatti Langston is a singer, public-speaker, yoga-instructor, organizer, and a comedic author. Starting off as a small side-project, decluttering homes grew to be an area of expertise for McPatti, eventually changing her master status to "In-Home Organizer". Customers began really finding joy from her services, and more importantly, they were calling back to schedule her again! With grounding energy, Langston serves clients as the catalyst for change, helping them tackle their own mountains of clutter. Today, McPatti continues to help clients in-home, while speaking publicly throughout Metro Atlanta on the importance of managing clutter and keeping humor in your daily life.

East LA to Encino is a gripping exploration of the profound impact of family trauma, offering an unfiltered glimpse into one woman's journey toward redemption and healing. Elizabeth Dillon, the indomitable survivor, bares her soul in a roller coaster of raw, unvarnished emotions, from a childhood of neglect to an adulthood spent rising beyond the fears of the past. Join Elizabeth in discovering the ability of the human spirit to triumph over adversity.

(From the Fayetteville Observer)

Pat Terry learned a long time ago you can't please everyone. So he settled for pleasing two: himself and God.

"I don't think I should limit myself as a songwriter, any more than I think living for God limits me," Terry said in a phone interview. "I've pretty much always felt a calling to explore through my music."

So folks who come to see Terry perform Saturday at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville should expect a bit more depth than the feel-good Jesus music that introduced the Georgia native to the Jesus movement in the early '70s.

And folks who know Terry only for his successful country music songwriting in the past 20 years may be surprised at the depth of faith his songwriting reveals.

And, in the word of one of his Oak Ridge Boys hits, he hopes everyone finds something worth holding on to on Saturday.

And, while he knows he'd never be able to get out of a church concert without singing classics such as "I Can't Wait" and "Home Where I Belong," Terry doesn't dwell on the past.

"I'll be bringing a mixture of material," he said. "There's a little bit from every era - the early Christian music, my time writing in Nashville, and some of the stuff I'm doing now."

Pat Terry was a Southeastern staple in contemporary worship music. One of the first groups to sign with Myrrh Records, the Pat Terry Group brought a clever mixture of humor and faith that drew many fans - and also criticism. Some felt the group was too worldly, even psychedelic.

When the group disbanded, Terry began writing music in Nashville. He had hits writing for Travis Tritt, Tanya Tucker, Confederate Railroad, Kenny Chesney and the Oak Ridge Boys.

"It was a wonderful, creative time for me," he said. "I believe that I can live my life as a Christian while working in the world can be as powerful a witness as anything. God calls us into the world to share his light."

It was that calling that put Terry back on the road after more than 30 years. He sings alone, spinning songs and tales from his decades in music.

"I had a hunger to get back out and share my music," he said.

"And you know ... it's fun now, getting together with people and singing," he said.

Many of those songs reflect characters facing right and wrong, and turning to God for an answer - much like the people he's come to know in decades of music.

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