Sidney's Salon: "Seven Islands of the Ocmulgee" w/ Gordon Johnston

Historic Macon Foundation

Join us for a Sidney's Salon featuring author Gordon Johnston, who will be speaking about his newest book.

These seven river stories, written after author Gordon Johnston canoed the Ocmulgee and its tributaries, draw on European American, Native, and African American traditions and relationships with the upper river between the confluence of the Yellow, Alcovy, and South Rivers under Jackson Lake and Macon, Georgia.Set from the 1810s to the present, the stories follow characters as their inherited or adopted perspectives on the river--and their ignorance of it--are altered by their personal experience of the watershed's danger, power, and life. Each story engages a specific place, among them Pittman's Ferry, the Seven Islands, Smith Shoals, the levee in Macon, and the Ocmulgee Mounds of the Mississippian people.J oin us for an evening with the author, followed by a Q&A and an opportunity to buy a copy of the book. Refreshments will be served at 5:30, followed by a presentation at 6.

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