LAKE VILLAGE — The Lakeport Plantation, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site, will host “History for the Holidays,” a book signing and author event featuring local and regional authors. Held Dec. 8 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The event is an opportunity for the public to meet authors and purchase signed copies of their books.
Mark K. Christ and Jim Woodrick, will be on hand to sign copies of their Arkansas and Mississippi Civil War histories. Several authors have written about their home communities in Arcadia’s Images of America Series: Blake Wintory (Chicot County, Arkansas), Princella Nowell (Washington County, Mississippi), and Mark Spencer (Monticello, Arkansas). The event will also feature Robert Fulford of Dermott, Arkansas and Woody Woods of Madison, Mississippi Fulford has authored several books about growing up on the Yellow Bayou Plantation in Chicot County, while Woods has written about plantations in Washington County, Mississippi.
The following books will be available: Please bring cash or check. Prices include tax.
Titles for Mark Christ:
Civil War Arkansas, 1863 ($22)
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
“This Day We Marched Again”: A Union Soldier’s Account of War in Arkansas and the Trans-Mississippi (ed. by Christ) ($24)
A Confused and Confusing Affair: Arkansas and Reconstruction (ed. by Christ; chapter by Blake Wintory) ($24)
Jim Woodrick:
The Civil War Siege of Jackson Mississippi ($24)
Woody Woods:
A Delta Diary: Amanda Worthington’s Civil War Diary ($22)
Delta Plantations: The Beginning ($22)
Princella Nowell:
Washington County, Mississippi (Images of America Series) ($24)
Mark Spencer:
Monticello (Images of America) ($24)
Blake Wintory:
Chicot County (Images of America) ($24)
A Confused and Confusing Affair: Arkansas and Reconstruction (ed. by Christ; chapter by Blake Wintory) ($24)
Robert Fulford:
Growing Up on Yellow Bayou Book 1 ($12)
Growing Up on Yellow Bayou Book 2 ($12)
Dark Days of the South ($12)
The program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Blake Wintory at 870-265-6031.
The Lakeport Plantation is an Arkansas State University Heritage Site located at 601 Hwy 142 near Lake Village. Constructed in 1859, Lakeport is one of Arkansas’s premier historic structures and still retains many of its original finishes and architectural details. Open to the public since 2007, Lakeport researches and interprets the people and cultures that shaped plantation life in the Mississippi River Delta, focusing on the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction Periods.
Arkansas Heritage Sites at Arkansas State University develops and operates historic properties of regional and national significance in the Arkansas Delta. A-State’s Heritage Sites include the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center, Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, Lakeport Plantation, and the Historic Dyess Colony: Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash.
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