“Wanna go to a movie?” My grandmother Myrt asked one hot summer day of my childhood. Our Athens movie theaters, The Palace (a parking garage is there now), and the Georgia Theater (newly rebuilt after a devastating fire) were the only air conditioned places I knew back in the late 1950s, when Myrt issued her…
Sometimes when I go out and speak to kids and adults at schools and other events, I tell them how I became an avid reader and writer at age eight. I did this by reading lots of books, such as The Wizard of Oz, my childhood favorite, and by falling in love with my local…
I’m a native of Athens, Georgia, but for many years I’ve lived in nearby Winterville, a tiny municipality of approximately 1,200, located in Eastern Clarke County. We’ve had a branch of the Athens Regional Library in Winterville (115 Marigold Lane) for a very long time. Today, I’m happy to announce that the Friends of the…
