Wednesday, June 19, 2002
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Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
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Writers' seminar Sat. at library
By CAROLYN
CARY
The Fayette County Public Library and the Friends of the Fayette County Public Library present the second series of "Why and How I Write" this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon in the Dorothea Redwine Meeting Room. Enjoy an informative morning with the talented writers and stay for lunch. All activities are free to the public. Among the authors on hand is Estelle Ford-Williamson who is a university writing program staff instructor in the Atlanta area and former reporter for UPI as well as executive director of the Bicentennial commission. Her book, "Abbeville Farewell: a Novel of Early Atlanta and North Georgia" was nominated for the Georgia Writers Association new fiction award and for the Townsend Prize for fiction in 2002. The author spent 10 years in research and though the book is a novel, it is based on the actual events during the first 50 years of the nineteenth century in Georgia. It reflects the difficult times, marked by fear of Indian attacks, settlers' uprisings against each other, and the backwoods revenge for being on the wrong side of an issue, one that would forever change the history of South. Oddly enough, many of the issues surrounding the Morgan family in the mid-nineteenth century still confront citizens at the beginning of the 21st century. Other authors include poets, Sikha Karmakar, Dr. Helen Deas, Carol Buckler, and Marty Holmes, as well as first-time authors Franklin P. Smith and Ines Hatch. All publications will be for sale. For information call the library at 770-461-8841, ext. 5331.
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