Saturday, June 29, 2019

Murder on Shades Mountain, The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson, by Melanie S. Morrison***







A black man accused of murdering two girls on Shades Mountain, a rich suburb of Birmingham, Alabama in the 1930's,  keeps insisting that he's innocent, convincing a lot of people that it's true.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Furious Hours, by Casey Ceb****

This is our book club selection for August, so I'll wait until after
the August meeting to post any remarks about it.

Friday, June 14, 2019

Dispatches from Pluto, by Richard Grant***







The author and his girlfriend buy and move into an old house in the Mississippi delta. They have funny and sad experiences in the "drafty old house," and making friends with black and white neighbors and acquaintances. This was our book club selection for June.