Join us! Booked for Brunch will be celebrating 35 years of friendship for the Spring Hill College Library. You can purchase your brunch tickets online in advance.
Lesa Carnes Shaul will be the featured Guest Speaker. She spent the first eighteen years of her life in a small town atop Sand Mountain in northeastern Alabama, where she first learned of "the Kilpatrick shooting" from her parents, who were teenagers in the 1950s. The story stayed with her while she earned degrees in English from the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia, published her first book, Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition (1999), and raised a son. She has directed the Honors Program at the University of West Alabama for 17 years, and was awarded the William E. Gilbert Award for Outstanding Teaching and the McIllwain Bell Trustee Professor Award. Her book Midnight Cry: A Shooting on Sand Mountain (2024) tells the Kilpatrick shooting as a true crime story that also illuminates the shifting culture of the twentieth-century South.
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