A charity fundraising evening is being organised by the family of the late Chips Barber who was well known throughout Devon as the author of many books about the area.
February next year will mark the tenth anniversary of Chips' untimely death at the age of 55.
He would have celebrated his 65th birthday next Tuesday, October 21.
The charity evening on February 28, will be hosted by David FitzGerald at the Exeter Golf and Country Club, and all proceeds are going to the Devon Air Ambulance Trust.
The evening will feature a Devon-themed quiz, live music and a raffle.
Chips wrote more than 100 books on Devon's history, folklore, towns, people and wildlife.
Born James Richard Barber, he acquired the nickname Chips as a schoolboy and eventually adopted it as his own.
He wrote his first book — about the Haldon Hills — while still teaching geography and PE at Vincent Thompson School, now St Luke's.
Soon a hobby became a cottage industry as he and his wife began producing and selling dozens of books about Devon and the South West from their home under the name of Obelisk Publications.
Among them were two about Pinhoe itself, where Chips and his family lived from 1979.
He was closely involved in village life, serving on the Pinhoe Community Association for many years.
And his writing also led to a career as a broadcaster on BBC Radio Devon, presenting talks and answering listeners' Devon questions.
He published his first book back in 1982 and it was called Round and About the Haldon Hills.
Chips had been married to Sally for 35 years and they had three children.
