Datil Library To Host Quadruple Book Signing

By Anne Sullivan
DATIL – Four authors with local ties will be at Datil’s Baldwin Cabin Public Library on Friday afternoon, Aug. 14, from 1 to 3 p.m. for a Quadruple Southwest Book Signing.
• Earl Harvey lives in Albuquerque now, but in his younger days, he lived near and attended school in Datil, Pie Town, Magdalena, Reserve and Socorro. As a preacher, he’s been stationed all over the Southwest.
His latest book, “What Happened To Charlie?” is the book everyone in Catron County is waiting to read. It’s about a cowboy who was involved in the Elfego Baca shootout in Reserve.
It’s fiction with a true background Harvey certainly knows about since his wife, Lois, is a direct descendant of Charles McCarty. Harvey also has written his interesting autobiography, “A Different Drumbeat,” which BCPL is lucky enough to have a copy of in its Southwest Local Authors Collection.
• Pie Town resident Uncle River’s latest book, “Camp Desolation And An Eschatology of Salt,” is right up to date as it concerns Global Warming, bank failures and protests.
His other books, of which he’ll have copies, include “The Mogollon News,” a collection of colorful vignettes of Mogollon inhabitants, “Prometheus: the autobiography,” and “Thunder Mountain.”
• Another Pie Town resident is Thea Girard Marshall, whose book, “Cat’s Masquerade,” is historically accurate fiction with more than a touch of romance about a gutsy well-to-do heroine of many disguises who runs away to
London in the time of Napoleon. In addition to writing books, Marshall is an astrologer and world traveler with a love of history.
• Betsy Francois lives in Socorro and has written three books of children’s fiction all taking place in the West: “There’s A Roadrunner in the Honeysuckle Bush,” which she also illustrated, about goings on in her Escondida backyard; “Blunders of the Patriarch,” a historically accurate story of the ill-fated La Salle expedition in the Gulf of Mexico as seen through the adventures of five children; and “In Search Of Kindness,” about Frieda, a 13-year-old foster child who finds a lynx cat in the wilderness of Wyoming.
Everyone is invited to come meet the authors and partake of delicious refreshments. The library is located on Forest Road 100, just off Highway 60, three miles west of downtown Datil.

Datil Library To Host Quadruple Book Signing