MEET AUTHOR EDWARDS

Last night our author at the Library MEET THE AUTHOR event was Murray Edwards from Clyde. Connie Kirkham insisted on hosting the dinner honoring the author and the Library directors because her mother, Alice Roby, served as the ranch manager for the Edwards Ranch at Spur owned by Murray's father Weldon Edwards. They are shown in the snapshot.

During dinner Murray told us that his wife has been a hospice volunteer for years and has gone back to Brite divinity school in FW to become better educated in that work. This summer she will volunteer for Sloan-Kettering hospital in NYC. They are looking forward to the experience and Murray should come back with some great short stories to add to those he regaled us with at the Library. We had a good crowd and he is a great speaker. He is also a great author. His book SEARCHING FOR LUCY GILLIGAN and Other Stories is 17 short stories that he has written. It is well worth the $20 he gets for the book. It is illustrated with B&W photos that he took in Abilene and Fort Worth and other places. I haven't read all of the stories, but the ones that he shared were fascinating, some humorous and some poignant. Glenn Dromgoole named his book one of his best 10 last year.