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Book Debut, Gordon Johnston’s ‘Seven Islands of the Ocmulgee’

Willet Auditorium

A reading and talk about Johnston's book of seven interconnected river stories, which draw on European American, Native, and African American traditions and relationships with the upper Ocmulgee from near Jackson to below Macon. Set from the 1810s to the present, the stories follow characters as their inherited or adopted perspectives on the river —…