PSBBF Newsletter

The Board of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation has just released its newsletter with a message to Friends of PSBBF that reads, in part:

We are excited about activities and accomplishments of the past two years, and for the amazing opportunities at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace that await us in the future.  The attached newsletter details those accomplishments and opportunities.

As you will see, the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation Board of Directors has begun a renewed commitment to the Birthplace and we would like for you to be included in our transformation.  Our new individual membership levels have something for everyone.  To become a member or to support the Foundation, simply fill out the membership/donation form and return it with your dues and/or donation.

2014: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Birthplace

In this 1970 photo Pearl Buck begins the restoration of her home by knocking out a piece of porch railing of her Birthplace while back West Virginia for an environmental seminar.  Four years later we held out grand opening on May 4, 1974.  Sadly, Pearl died at the beginning of March in 1973, so she didn't get to see the opening, but it must have already been clear the house would indeed be successful as a gateway to "new hopes, dreams and ways of life" as she wished it to be. 

The project was and has continued to be a community endeavor.  In the coming months we'll post photos and stories of that effort in this blog.  Everyone involved with the Birthplace, from the moment a commitment was made to save the home to today should feel some sense of pride in the collaborative endeavor.

May 4, 2014 will mark the 40th Anniversary of our opening, and we think it deserves to be celebrated.  Unfortunately, that porch railing that Pearl S. Buck is knocking taking a whack at in the picture is once again in need of repairs and painting, as is the entire house.

New Ways to Support the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace

Between Two Worlds by Pearl S. Buck

The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace has partnered with Amazon.comso that a portion of the proceeds from your purchases at the world's most successful e-commerce site can benefit the birthplace, provided you begin your shopping from any of the links embedded on the sites of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation. We have also begun listing items available for sale in our Gift Shop on Amazon at www.amazon.com/shops/PearlSBuckBirthplace

People all over the world can already purchase from our Gift Shop via our web site, and the inventory will generally be much more complete. The advantage offered by Amazon is that it lists our products alongside all other results whenever anyone searches on relevant terms. So someone who is a fan of Pearl Buck and is searching for her her works would see the limited edition, new signed copies that you currently have to go to our website to see in their search results.

Jim Minick Reading June 26, Buy "Blueberry Years" Online and Support the Birthplace

On Tuesday, June 26, 6:00 p.m. Jim Minick will be at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace for a dual purpose event, sharing tips on raising wild blueberries and reading from his award-winning, 2010 book, just released on paperback, The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family.  A variety of delicious, homemade blueberry treats will also be available!

It was the winner of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance's Best Nonfiction Book for 2010, and took second place in the Southern Environmental Law Center's Annual Book Contest.

The Blueberry Years captures the story of Minick’s experience creating and operating one of the mid-Atlantic’s first certified-organic, pick-your-own blueberry farms. For a decade, the author and his wife planted, pruned, and picked while also opening the field to hundreds of people who came to harvest berries. These pickers shared blueberry-flavored moonshine and sober religion, warm hugs and cool hats, and always bushels of stories.

The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace has joined the Amazon Associates Program.  Click on any of the links in this post to purchase the book through Amazon, and a portion of the sales will benefit the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace through this program.  Whenever you begin your Amazon shopping from a link on a site of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace a percentage of the proceeds of anything you purchase will benefit our work. You can begin your search in the box below.