September 2020
Ladies Night Out(side)
It's 5 o'clock somewhere! Ladies Night Out(side) to benefit The Fortnightly Club Scholarship Fund. We will be celebrating outside on our beautiful veranda, socially distanced. Please bring a mask. We will be serving wine, beer and margaritas. Cheryl from What a Dish will be whipping up something delicious, individual and covid friendly. Please RSVP and feel free to invite friends! To register for the event and pay by credit card, please go to https://fortnightlyclub.org/donate/ and click the PayPal button. Write…
Find out more »Book Club – All Adults Here
SEPTEMBER 24. ALL ADULTS HERE, EMMA STRAUB In All Adults Here, Emma Straub’s unique alchemy of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not.
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Book Club – Then She Was Gone
OCTOBER 22. THEN SHE WAS GONE, LESA JEWELL THEN She was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. NOW It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter. And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet. Before too long she’s staying…
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Twin Maples Fall Cleanup
Fall Clean Up Day at Twin Maples November 4 at 1pm. Hello club members - Come spend an hour or two outside beautifying our clubhouse landscaping. Any time you can spare is much appreciated! For our Twin Maples fall clean up day, many hands make for light work. For this event we are in need of assistance with shrub clean up (no weeding), bulb planting and transplanting of some roses and shrubs. Our focus area will be the shade garden…
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Book Club – The Night Watchman
DECEMBER 3. THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, LOUISE ERDRICH Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.
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Book Club – My Dark Vanessa
JANUARY 28. MY DARK VANESSA, KATE ELIZABETH RUSSELL Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.
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Book Club – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
FEBRUARY 25. THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO, TAYLOR JENKINS REID Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. When she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless…
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St. Patrick’s Day Box Lunch
Please join us on St. Patrick's Day for a Box Lunch catered by What a Dish! Drive-by pickup, outside porch seating, or spaced tables in the ballroom will be available. Order enough for your family and skip cooking. All proceeds from this event will go to Twin Maples' operating expenses. Wear your green to celebrate the day! RSVP by March 12th at fortnightlyclub.org/event-tickets THANK YOU!
Find out more »Book Club – The Vanishing Half
MARCH 25. THE VANISHING HALF, BRIT BENNETT The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for…
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