October's Horror Movie Fest

Halloween is on the way and we at the library absolutely love the holiday. That's why we are celebrating with Halloween movies all month long. Check It Out!

Wednesdays at 10:00 am will be Family-Oriented Films & the Horror Classics Brown Bag Lunch will be Fridays at 12:00 pm

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Join us on October 31st for our Horror Film Fest beginning at 10:00 am.

Featured Movies Will Include:

It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

Paranorman

Frankenweenie

Hocus Pocus

Coco

Meet author Harris Dickson Shortle on September 18!

     Join us on Tuesday, September 18 from 12:00-1:30 pm in the library auditorium for a book reading and signing with Vicksburg native, Harris Dickson Shortle.  The program will be a Brown Bag Luncheon where attendees are  encouraged to bring their lunch to the program and drinks and dessert will be provided by the library. Harris Dickson Shortle, known as Dickson, is the author of Duplicate and The Duke of Zardano both published in 2009 by Tate Publishing and Enterprises, Mustang, Oklahoma.  Both books reflect a diversity of approach and innovative techniques of expressions in two distinctively different historical genres.

     Shortles’s story-telling is a product developed as the result of the influence of his grandfather, Harris Dickson, attorney, jurist and raconteur of note who published 13 novels and received an appreciative bicentennial award from The Saturday Evening Post for his 100 contributions. He was published by Collier’s, Redbook and other magazines during his career also.  Dickson’s novel creations followed his long-standing career as a construction project engineer, project manager and general contractor.  His work experiences and interactions with people during his career , granted him a “feel” for the humanisms of the stories he tells so realistically.

     Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and reared in Mississippi and Louisiana, Dickson’s background is spiced not only by the influence of his grandfather, but also by his father who was a civil engineer from Detroit, Michigan and by the grace of his mother who was an English major at the University of Mississippi.  Harris Dickson Shortle was a cum laude graduate of the Sewanee Military Academy at Sewanee, Tennessee, a member of the class of 1960 at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York and a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.  Dickson and his wife, Dllona recently moved back to Vicksburg from Upper Arlington, Ohio. Their only daughter is Harra Dickson Shortle Windsor who with her husband, the Reverend Doctor Van Windsor and their sons, Dickson and Walter live in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.