The people behind “The People’s Pharmacy” will dispense healthy-living advice in the Turnage Theater at 7:30 p.m. tonight.

Nationally known health-food and home-remedy advocates Joe and Terry Graedon will headline Friends of Brown Library’s annual meeting in the theater, located at 150 W. Main St., Washington.

The Graedons’ talk will be preceded by a five-minute business session, said Rachel Mills, president of Friends.

Admission is free to members of Friends, and $5 per person to the general public.

The Graedons are the authors of numerous books and write a syndicated newspaper column.
They also co-host a public-radio show focusing on health matters, and their “People’s Pharmacy” philosophies have been aired on PBS and other networks.

Their website shows the couple has won awards including the Silver Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Alvarez Award from the American Medical Writers Association.

The Graedons also have appeared on internationally broadcast TV programs including “20/20,” “Today,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and others, the website reads.

Friends is hosting the Graedons as part of a series of public programming at the Turnage.
“I wanted something different,” said Mills, whose e-mail to the Graedons led to the booking.

“We’ve had a lot of authors here, and most of them are fiction or poetry,” she said. “We need to spread it out a little bit.”

Plenty of seating is available at the Turnage, Mills shared.

Scotty Henley, executive director of the Turnage Theaters Foundation, praised Mills and her organization for attracting well-known authors and entertainers.

“I think she’s done a terrific job for being in the position of pulling these artists together with the finances they have,” Henley said.

Friends’ main purpose is to raise money for and promote the City of Washington’s Brown Library.
According to Gloria Moore, library director, Friends has purchased everything from CD bins to furniture to computers for the library.

“They just do so much for us,” Moore commented.

It’s easy to join Friends, which charges an annual membership fee of $15, she said.

In addition to free entrance to any of its programs, Friends’ members also get first crack at books available for purchase in the group’s annual book sale.

The book sale raises cash for the library.

“They’re a great support group for our library, and without them there are so many things that we wouldn’t be able to have,” Moore concluded.

For more information, visit www.friendsofbrownlibrary.com.