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The Apex Writers Guild allows budding and professional writers to come together to discuss skills, share experiences and give encouragement and advice. Meetings are the fourth Tuesday of the month at Common Grounds Coffeehouse at 219 N. Salem St. in downtown Apex, across from the firehouse.

HOME OF RALEIGH'S FIRST MAYOR HAS TOURS

Haywood Hall, the restored home of Raleigh's first mayor, John Haywood, will be open Thursdays for free public tours from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The home is in downtown Raleigh at 211 New Bern Place. For more information, call 832-8357.

PROFESSOR WILL SPEAK ON DEAD SEA SCROLLS

Israeli professor Rachel Elior will present the first lecture of the series "Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Were They Written?" on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.

The lecture is part of a series the museum is holding with The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. Elior is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Mystical Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She will speak about topics on which the scrolls were written, their authors and the circumstances under which they were written.

Tickets cost $25 for the public and $20 for Friends of the Museum. For details, see www.naturalsciences.org/scrolls/ and click under "The Distinguished Lecture Series."