Beth Macy Author Event on latest book, Paper Girl: A Memoir
Schedule
Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Shenandoah Valley Art Center | Waynesboro, VA
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On March 15, Charlottesville NOW, with support from Virginia NOW, will host best selling author and journalist Beth Macy. The moderator will be former award-winning TV reporter and anchor Gayle Jessup White.
Beth Macy was a reporter for the Roanoke Times for 25 years, covering the stories of people and communities across western Virginia. Her deeply reported books about families, work, opportunity and the forces shaping life in rural America have earned her national recognition. Her first book, Factory Man, about the Basset, Virginia furniture company, chronicled how globalization reshaped small towns. Dopesick exposed how opioid executives preyed on vulnerable communities and fought to conceal the damage they caused. The book helped shift America’s understanding of addiction and was turned into an Emmy- and Peabody-winning Hulu series she helped produce and write. Her latest book, Paper Girl, is a page-turning memoir about her own impoverished childhood in a fading Ohio town. It continues her lifelong work of telling honest stories about home, struggle, and what it means to build a better future.
Gayle Jessup White is the first public relations and community engagement officer at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and is the author of the book, Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy. She started her career at the New York Times, and has written and spoken extensively about her work at Monticello, the legacies of slavery, and her family’s contributions to American history.
2:00 PM, Sunday, March 15 at Shenandoah Valley Art Center, 416 W. Main St., Waynesboro, VA. Author event will include a reception with refreshments and book sales by Stone Soup Books. FREE but RSVP to save your seat.
Registration link: https://www.cvillenow.org/event-registration
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Shenandoah Valley Art Center, 122 S. Wayne Avenue,Waynesboro, Virginia, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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