2012 Book Sales will be held on the following Saturdays from 10:00am until 1:00pm.
PRESS RELEASE
Northwest Georgia Regional Library System
Contact: Nick Fogarty, Deputy Director
fogartyn@ngrl.org
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310 Cappes Street, Dalton, GA 30720
Phone: (706) 876-1370 Fax: (706) 272-2977
For release on or after: September 27, 2011
On Tuesday, October 18, the Northwest Georgia Regional Library Davison Lecture Series presents Dalton-born Storyteller Larry Clayton England at the Dalton-Whitfield Public Library in Dalton, GA.
The Davison Lecture Series was named in memory of former Dalton resident Bob Davison. The series is designed to provide residents with quality local and regional authors and lecturers as well as offer an opportunity for an evening of pure enjoyment. The presenters in the Davison Lecture Series gear their programs primarily to adult and young adult audiences.
England, a member of the Southern Order of Storytellers, specializes in family stories, railroad stories, and stories from the Vietnam War era.
He attended Pleasant Grove and Fort Hill Schools in Dalton, and graduated in 1965 from Dalton High, where he was lucky enough to have teachers like Mr. Hughes, Mr. Kittle, Mrs. Dyer, and Mr. Pearson, and, as counselor, Ms. McCrory.
It was McCrory who advised him to attend Georgia Southern in Statesboro, Ga. At Georgia Southern, he was business manager, managing editor, and editor of the college newspaper, The George Anne. Statesboro was an exciting town in the 1960s and had a wonderful English department – with Roy Powell, Fielding Russell, Carlton Humphery, and Del Presley.
As an Airborne soldier, he fought with the Herd in Vietnam.
England worked as a conductor for the Georgia Railroad. He was hired by A.J. Richardson, who told him, “You like being outdoors and you resent the hell out of authority: You’ll make a good railroad man.”
His parents, Clayton Silas and Ethel Cole England, and writer Loren Eiseley are his heroes. England’s father, “Mutt,” hopped freight trains in the ’30s with his buddy Odell Johnson, and England got his itchy feet from his dad, having lived in Athens, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama and as a child in Kansas City and Bagnell Dam, Missouri, and Erie, Pennsylvania. England lives in Atlanta with his wife, Ann, and their standard poodles, Zoe and Buddy.
A reception in honor of the speaker will begin at 6:30 PM. The program will begin at 6:50 PM program. The reception is sponsored by the Friends of the Dalton-Whitfield Public Library. The program is presented free of charge by the library.
For further information, please call 706-876-1377.
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