• We the People

    Decatur Public Library-Main Area

    presented by Harry Moore Poet Harry Moore will discuss his latest book We the People: Confessions of a Caucasian Southerner. This collection of poems looks back across the decades to his “happy rural childhood” in the American South.  Rather than an exercise in nostalgia, these poems are confession, and contrition, a reckoning for the long history of […]

  • Poisoning the Well Book Talk

    Decatur Public Library-Main Area

    with Sharon Udasin  Environment reporter Sharon Udasin will present her new book, Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America, which traces an ugly history of corporate greed, military impunity and community devastation, based on original reporting in four highly contaminated places —including Morgan and Lawrence counties. The book introduces readers to people who, while […]