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Local authors to sign books

The Athens Historical Society is hosting two authors in a weekend book-signing: Maxine Easom and Patsy Arnold co-wrote Across the River: The People, Places, and Culture of East Athens. They'll be at the Library on Baxter Street at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.

From Larry Dendy…

Authors Maxine Easom and Patsy Arnold, whose book Across the River: The People, Places, and Culture of East Athens was published this summer, will speak this Sunday, Aug. 25, at a program sponsored by the Athens Historical Society.

The 3 p.m. program at the Athens-Clarke County Library is free and open to the public. An informal reception and book-signing will follow the presentation.

Easom and Arnold are Athens natives who grew up in the East Athens area. Both attended Oconee Street Elementary School and graduated from Athens High School. They raised families in East Athens and spent their careers in the Clarke County school system.

Their 609-page book recounts more than 100 years of the history of East Athens—one of the city’s oldest residential and commercial districts. East Athens was home to important early textile mills and industrial plants as well as many other businesses, churches and schools. It spawned notable Athens citizens and has had an important role in the city’s economic, cultural, social and political development.

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