Make My Mark Bookmark Contest Winners

Our mailbox has never been so colorful. We appreciate the students who entered the Make My Mark summer bookmark contest. The tributes to their favorite stories took creativity and imagination to new heights. Our judges had a difficult time choosing the winners. Congratulations to the first place winners in each category.

  • Ellen Shelton (age 11, Elementary), Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
  • Owen Wilson (age 12, Middle School), Legend of the Giant Panda by A. B. Curtiss
  • Cora Weems (age 16, High School), The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howit
  • McKayla Cavanagh (University of South Carolina) The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Thanks for making this year's contest such a huge success.

Upcoming Event

Photo of author Mary Martha Greene in her kitchen.

Mary Martha Greene, The Cheese Biscuit Queen

November 19, 2026, 6:00 PM

Please join us for our next Speaker at the Center talk with The Cheese Biscuit Queen, Mary Martha Greene. Greene, the author The Cheese Biscuit Queen: Kiss my aspic! Southern Recipes, Saucy Stories, and More Rambunctious Behavior and The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All: Southern Recipes, Sweet Remembrances, and a Little Rambunctious Behavior will demonstrate preparing a champagne mustard.