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Bob Crawford Author, Historian & Avett Brothers Bassist October 8 • 11:30am When he’s not on tour or in the studio as the bassist for the American folk rockers The Avett Brothers, Bob Crawford can be found pursuing his passion for American History on podcasts like American History Hotline and The Road to Now . This multi-talented musician and writer has now written his first book : America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick . Bring your lunch to this event where Crawford will discuss his passion for history and why he thinks Quincy Adams might be American’s greatest ex-president. All the Love You Can Use The Letters of Carson McCullers by Carlos Dews October 12 • 6:00pm Carson McCullers became a profligate letter writer after shooting to fame with her first novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter . Now Carlos Dews, the pre-eminent McCullers scholar and founder of the Carson A Legacy in Peanuts Author Haisten Willis discusses his history of Tom’s Foods McCullers Center at Columbus State University, has collected and edited this correspondence into his latest book All the Love You Can Use: The Letters of Carson McCullers . Intimate, earnest, and as heartbreaking as it is uplifting, this collection is a product of remarkable scholarship and dedication. The result is the most comprehensive portrait of McCullers ever published. Co-sponsored with the McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians at Columbus State University. November 19 • 6:00pm It’s the amazing story of how one man—Tom Huston (with an important assist from George Washington Carver)—created a business that aided the South’s industrialization and established the humble peanut as a cash crop. Journalist (and Columbus native) Haisten Willis traces the full legacy of Tom’s Foods, from its innovations, its stability as an industry leader mid-century, to the slow demise over the course of the last three decades as the company’s assets were sold (and re-sold). Co-sponsored by the University of Georgia Press.
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