by Patricia Langer | Jun 4, 2022 | Events
It was another full house of book lovers when FOLSOI hosted local author Cindy Horrell Ramsey at Barbee Library to discuss her latest novel, Trying Not to Drown, a heart-wrenching story about a family whose home is destroyed by flooding after Hurricane Florence. ...
by Patricia Langer | Jun 2, 2022 | Events
The audience was “at attention” when Southport author Col (Ret.) Dobie McArthur was the guest speaker for FOLSOI’s Meet the Author program at Harper Library in mid-May. He was there to talk about his life, military career, and a thrilling series of Civil War books...
by Patricia Langer | May 9, 2022 | Events
Dennis Hetzel (above, right) a resident of Holden Beach with a distinguished career in journalism, entertained a full room at Barbee Library last week with a “Meet the Author” account of his transition into writing suspense novels. It was a welcome return for this...
by Patricia Langer | Mar 29, 2022 | Events
Way back in the late 1950s, librarians and book sellers across the country began to ring the alarm on a dramatic decrease in library usage and book purchases—at the same time America’s use of a new technology called television was rising. Worried that America’s...
by Patricia Langer | Feb 11, 2022 | Events
How many female scientists, besides Marie Curie, can you name? Maybe the famous primatologist Jane Goodall comes to mind, or Rachel Carson, the environmental scientist who exposed the dangers of pesticides in the 1960s. But if you’re like most people, other names...
