Reading Local: Atlanta

We Were Dancing on a Volcano with Joe Gatins
Thursday, March 11, 7:30-9:00pm
Charis Books and More

Join Charis Books and More for a very special evening with historian Joe Gatins who chronicles his family’s remarkable history, including his great-grandfather who built and operated Atlanta’s famous Georgian Terrace Hotel and his French heiress grandmother, Egle Gatins, whose description of her own life between the wars in Paris gives the book its evocative title: We Were Dancing On a Volcano. In honor of women’s history month, Egle’s story will be the focus of Joe’s talk. Don’t miss this compelling discussion of the cross-currents of history and its effects on one Atlanta family.

Peggy Vonsherie Allen, The Pecan Orchard: Journey of a Sharecropper’s Daughter
February 24
Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library
7:00 p.m.

Local author Peggy Vonsherie Allen will discuss The Pecan Orchard: Journey of a Sharecropper’s Daughter. This is the true story of the struggle, survival, and ultimate success of a large black family in south Alabama who, in the middle decades of the twentieth century, lifted themselves out of poverty to achieve the American dream of property ownership. Allen is the Deputy Director of Traffic and Engineering for DeKalb County.