More Authors You'll Want To Meet

Yesterday I told you a little about three authors who will be at "Books & Bar-B-Q" on Tuesday, May 26th. Here are a few more authors you'll want to meet...
Dr. Niles Reddick is from Tifton. With a Ph.D. in Humanities, he taught English and Psychology at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia; Georgia Military College at Moody AFB, near Valdosta, Georgia; and at Motlow College in Lynchburg, Tennessee. He is currently Vice President for Academic Affairs at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton. He has coordinated a writers' festival, been editor of an international journal that received acclaim from The Literary Magazine Review and Library Journal, and is well known as a storyteller extraordinaire.
He's had several well-known authors give him great reviews, such as Lee Smith, who said that "his short, down-to-earth and often surprising stories pack a considerable punch." Author Janice Daugharty said he's "the funniest, most peculiar man alive." By peculiar, I wonder if it's because he named his dog Harper Lee for the famous author by that name.
The book he'll bring to "Books & Bar-B-Q" is Road Kill Art and Other Oddities. Now, doesn't that just make you want to join us, meet Dr. Reddick, and purchase this book?
If you're big on genealogy, you'll want to meet two of our authors. James Keith Taylor is from Pavo and is an avid historian, genealogist and prolific artist. He's worked over the past twenty years researching the histories of Colquitt County's cemeteries. His book Our Confederate Dead, Colquitt County, GA, Vol. 1 gives you personal glimpses about Confederate Soldiers buried throughout the county. His second volume will be released in late 2009.
James W. Parrish is another genealogy writer, whose wiregrass roots run deep from Virginia, North and South Carolina, into Southern Georgia and Florida. The result of his decade-long quest, following the genealogy of his ancestors to the 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment, led to his book telling the overdue story of the men who served in this forgotten regiment. His book is titled Wiregrass to Appomattox: The Untold Story of the 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment, CSA. He's coming from Tallahassee to be with us.
We also plan to have two delightful ladies with many years of storytelling to their credit. Vera Jones Stinson doesn't call herself an author, but instead a storyteller. She began her book about growing up in Appalachia when she was 90 years old, and she's still active at the age of 98. With a degree in Education, Vera taught school in North Carolina and Ohio. After retirement, she taught continuing education classes at Brevard Junior College in North Carolina and was a popular speaker for numerous groups on the history of Brevard and surrounding area. She lives in Moultrie now and is the mother of MCCLS director, Melody Jenkins.
Beverley B. Starr is another exceptional author at the age of 80 years of age. She has authored three books. Her first was written in the 1980s, while she was in Spain with an international study program, and told about the relationship between a group of cats and the residents of a nursing home. She makes her home in Albany.
Don't you agree we have a fine line-up of guests? We really would like to have you join us. The price for an evening of literary greatness and fine food is a $10 donation, and that whole amount goes to the library's book fund.
Tomorrow I have a few more authors to tell you about. You'd be surprised how many authors we have living right here in Moultrie.