Authors To Be Featuraed at Market

Visitors to the Market Festival on the Square this Saturday will be treated to readings from three of Monticello’s noted authors.

Appearance of the authors is part of the plan to feature a wide variety of community events and entertainment, in conjunction with the Market’s offering of fresh fruits and vegetables as well as one of a kind arts and crafts, at the Market each week.

Audrey Davis Stewart has penned “United We Stand,” a tribute to her father Coach Lester Davis, whose two main mantras were ‘if you believe you can win, then you can win!’ and ‘united we stand, divided we fall, all for one and one for all – Fight!’ Both of which propelled him and his teams to 783 victories during his coaching career.

Johnny Smith’s novel “Hillcountry Warriors” exposes a different side of the Civil War South. He chronicles a family’s struggle coping with being forced into the Civil War despite their firm opposition to slavery and coming to terms with the reality that the society they lived in considered slavery both a moral and necessary evil.

James Campbell just completed his fifth book “Echoes of Solomon,” but he’ll read from one of his most fascinating “29 Murders,” which provides interesting and unknown details into the killings of the 29 young blacks in Atlanta during the reign of Atlanta’s first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson.

The Market operates from 8 a.m. to noon each Saturday. The authors are scheduled to read from 10 a.m.-.noon.

For more information regarding booths at the Market, and for bookings as entertainers, contact Sage Edwards at the Chamber of Commerce – 706-468-8994.