Bill Grant w/ SPRING WARRIOR
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1123 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Florida 32303 | Tallahassee, FL
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Looking for a multi-generational story set on "The Forgotten Coast?" Look no further! Join Midtown Reader as Bill Grant discusses his book Spring Warrior!About the Book:
Set in the rolling sand hills and vast, mysteriously daunting swamps of northern Florida’s Big Bend region, this begins a multi-generational series of stories set in a region about which so little is known that even today parts of it are often referred to as “The Forgotten Coast” or “The Other Florida.” They are told so that we do not forget the people who dared face its dangers, trying to make it home. Unique to this one region, still these are stories of how all homelands are built, erected on the foundations of real lives lived, of blood and bone, of hopes and dreams, deaths, honor and treachery, achievements and failures, all an indelible brand on that to come.
The settling of America, and of Florida, was predicated on the taking of that which seemed secure to those who had thought of it as their own. These chronicles begin, then, with stories of cultural upheaval and bitter disagreements. They begin with the story of Biroyobo, the Yustaga warrior who fought valiantly against brutal Spanish conquistadors, only to have his tribe killed off by their violence and diseases. It is eerily similar to the story of Talmuches Hadjo, the conflicted Muscogee Creek leader whose people were swept into a terrible war over the challenges to their culture brought on by the permanence of White settlers and of his fights with Andrew Jackson, the Whites’ glory-seeking general who here meets the boy Billy Powell, who would become the legendary Native leader Asiyahola. Also opens here the story of the Thomson’s, the much-maligned Scots Irish family who had not thought to forcibly take the land of others but, having come to it during a time of heartbreaking loss, chose to not leave.
These are stories of proud people, all struggling to reconcile their past with the turbulent demands of the present, seeking resolution to dare an uncertain future.
About Bill Grant:
J.W. (Bill) Grant is a fifth-generation Floridian whose family settled in Territorial North Florida before statehood, his mother’s family in what is now Taylor County, and his father’s in present-day Suwannee County. He is a former Member of the Florida State Senate and the United States Congress and in 1992 was the Republican Party nominee to the U.S. Senate. He is a Business School graduate of Florida State University, where he was Class President and a creative writing student of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Shaara.
He is married, and the father of four children and seven grandchildren. He lives in Tallahassee.
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