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Bookfest 02
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Southern Kentucky   April 11-12, 2003
Festival of Books Sloan Convention Center
Bowling Green, Kentucky

Adult Presentation Schedule

Saturday, April 12, 2003

Time Location Presentation By
9:00 a.m. Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 Movies That Changed Us Nick Clooney
Meeting Room 3 NASCAR Liz Allison, author of NASCAR Wives;
Bob Latford, author of Built for Speed
Meeting Room 4 First to Fly Thomas Parramore
Meeting Room 5 Subversive Southerner Catherine Fosl
10:00 a.m. Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 Robert Morgan
Meeting Room 3 First Novels Dawn Raffel, author of Carrying the Body;
Lynn Pruett author of Ruby River
Meeting Room 4 String Music: Inside the Rise of SEC Basketball Chris Dortch
Meeting Room 5
  		Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky Harold Tallant
11:00 a.m. Meeting Rooms 1 & 2  David Baldacci
Meeting Room 3 Climbing Jacob’s Ladder Jock Smith
Meeting Room 4 The Ice Beneath You Christian Bauman
Meeting Room 5

Charles Colson John Perry
12:00 Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 The Sunday Wife Cassandra King
Meeting Room 3 Cat Book Emily Weinstein
Meeting Room 4 Don’t Squat With Yer Spurs On Texas “Bix” Bender
Meeting Room 5

Inside the House: Former Members Reveal How
Congress Really Works
 Congressman Romano Mazzoli
1:00 p.m. Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 Inside Television’s First War, A Saigon Journal
 Ron Steinman
Meeting Room 3 Like Shooting Rapids in the Dark Billy O. Wireman
Meeting Room 4 If You’ve Got a Dream, I’ve Got a Plan
 Kelley Lovelace
The Power of Horses: True Stories from Country Music Stars
 Lisa Wysocky
Meeting Room 5

My Brother's Keeper: Union and Confederate Soldier's Acts of Mercy During the Civil War
 Daniel N. Rolph
2:00 p.m. Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family
Walt Harrington
Meeting Room 3 Poetry Panel Joe Survant, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate;
James Baker Hall, former Kentucky Poet Laureate; Richard Taylor, former Kentucky Poet Laureate
Meeting Room 4 Southern Fiction No Place, Louisiana
Martin Pousson
There Is a River
Charlotte Miller
3:00 p.m.    Meeting Room 5
The A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman Charles Dryden
Meeting Rooms 1 & 2  Silas House and Pam Duncan
Meeting Room 3 A Ranger Born Robert A. Black
Meeting Room 4 Mystery Panel: Lynn Hightower
Ellis Vidler
Laura Young
Meeting Room 5
Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark James Holmberg
  • Moderators will be assigned for each session.
  • CSPAN’s Book TV will be taping in Meeting Room 5 all day.

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