HISTORY CENTER TO HOST BOOK SALE/BOOK SIGNING EVENT, "Local Authors of Local History," back by popular demand! Local
and regional history and culture book sale and signing event held in
conjunction with the Bossier Central Library complex open house. Light
refreshments will be served. Local authors will sign and sell their books
with topics as varied as catastrophic weather events, haunted historic
buildings, poems told from the varied perspectives of inhabitants at a
Louisiana plantation to historic photographs of old Bossier. Call Pam Carlisle
at 318-746-7717 or email pcarlisle@bossierlibrary.org
for more information.
The Current List of Participating Authors. (Additional authors are anticipated and this list will be updated)
LOCAL AUTHORS OF LOCAL HISTORY
August 9, 2016
Author List – Updated July 22,
2016
1.
Kevin Jones: Arcadia Press
Images of America Series: Bossier City
2.
Billy Andrews: Outstanding Weather Phenomena in
the Ark-La-Tex: an Incomplete History of Significant Weather Events
3.
John Andrew Prime: co-author of
Arcadia Press Images of America: Barksdale Air Force Base and
contributor to Shreveport Sounds in Black and White and Legendary
Locals of Shreveport with Gary D
Joiner PhD
4.
Dr. Roy Phillips: Exodus from
the Door of No Return
5.
Copies of The Late Col. Neill A.
Yarborough’s book History of Bossier City, Louisiana from the Early Years
1833-2006 will be available for sale by the Historical Center.
6.
Gypsy Damaris Boston, with her
son Frank Boston: Dear Louisiana…Love Gypsy, Hurry Before the Magic
Ends, Pink Hair, Rainbow Fairies
7.
Kristi Cavett Jones (and
possibly Jackson Cavett Sibley: Plantations
Along the Upper Red River of Louisiana
8.
Dr. Cheryl White: Historic Haunts
of Shreveport, Wicked
Shreveport, Historic Oakland Cemetery
9.
Katie
Bickham The Belle Mar (instructor at BPCC, English and poetry)
