WMRA Books & Brews
Books & Brews is an author series focused on discussions with writers from our area. This series is a collaboration with regional breweries, including Pale Fire Brewing Company in Harrisonburg, Seven Arrows Brewing in Waynesboro, and Winchester Brew Works in Winchester. Each location is a wonderful space to explore these topics together.
The Books & Brews season runs from September to May and is usually scheduled for the second Tuesday of every other month.
We welcome suggestions and if you have an author in mind for a future Books & Brews, please send a note to our series host, Mary Katharine Froehlich.
WMRA's Books & Brews series is made possible thanks to the support of Gaines Group Architects, our official sponsor. The Gaines Group has offices in Charlottesville and Harrisonburg.
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In 1997, journalist David Poole launched a one-employee nonprofit to shine light on a blind spot in Virginia’s lax campaign finance system. Over the next quarter century, the Virginia Public Access Project assumed an increasingly larger role in state politics. -
Books & Brews, October 14, 2025 - Trusted Source: How a Virginia Nonprofit Gained Bipartisan Support in an Era of Political Polarization -
When Henry and Priscilla Ireys (EYE-REES) found an old farm that promised refuge from hectic lives and encroaching illness, their world opened to unexpected adventures and led to surprising moments of beauty. -
WMRA's September Books & Brews will feature Henry and Priscilla Ireys, authors of The Keep, Living with the Tame and the Wild on a Mountainside Farm. Our conversation will take place live at Pale Fire Brewing Company in Harrisonburg. -
Brian Noyes left a successful career in publishing to open the Red Truck Bakery with two locations in rural Virginia. -
WMRA's April Books & Brews will feature Brian Noyes, founder of the Red Truck Bakery and author of Red Truck Bakery Cookbook and The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook. -
WMRA's March Books & Brews will feature Mary Ann Zehr, discussing Doors Cracked Open: Teaching in a Chinese Closed City. -
WMRA's February 2025 Books & Brews will feature Rebecca Kaufman, discussing I'll Come To You at Pale Fire Brewing in Harrisonburg. -
WMRA's January Books & Brews will feature Earl Swift, discussing Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery. -
WMRA's December 4, 2024 Books & Brews will feature David Hirschman, discussing The Tenacious Bloom.
