Local author will discuss the art of storytelling, sign book copies

Have you ever wanted to write the story of your life for those you love? If so, then please join us for an Author Event at The Book Nook on Friday, April 4. Local author Sally Russell will talk about the importance of family, storytelling and personal narrative and will sign copies of her newly released book "Latitude of Home A Storytelling Journey."

Sally Russell taught English, French and writing at Gainesville State College. She is the author of "A Heart for Any Fate: The Biography of Richard B. Russell, Sr." (2004, Mercer), "Shatter Me with Dawn: A Celebration of Country Life," ( 2001, UGA Press) and the editor of "Roots and Ever Green: The Selected Letters of Ina Dillard Russell," (1999, UGA Press).

Coming from a family that some would call addicted to storytelling, Sally Russell began listening nearly twenty years ago especially for stories that bring the past into the present. Beginning with her own family's account of what happened to them during the American Civil War and how those stories directly affected her life 125 years later, Russell shares the discovery of time-traveling through a range of tales that are humorous, historical, haphazard, heart-warming and heart-breaking, often within the same story.

Storytelling is an important vehicle by which we bond with each other in multiple dimensions and generations. The stories she shares show how storytelling gives us a latitude of home...Our stories, our family myths, give us the knowledge of our place in time. Russell invites readers to consider their own repertoires of stories, what they can learn about and from their own family myth, and how they can share that myth to inform, delight and strengthen.

Ms. Russell will be signing copies of "Latitude of Home" at The Book Nook at Cleveland Street on Friday, April 4 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. To reserve a copy, please call 706-745-7076.

The Book Nook is located one block south of the Blairsville Square on Hwy. 129 south.