The doors are closed right now at Eatonton’s favorite free attraction, the Georgia Writers Museum (GWM) and its accompanying bookstore on South Jefferson Avenue, just up the street from the historic Pex Theater and across the road from the iconic Putnam County courthouse.

The on-the-edge-of-your-seat book on Haiti’s only queen, Queen of Exiles, by award-winning author Vanessa Riley, will be the focus of Georgia Writers Museum’s (GWM’s) Meet the Author event for May.

Georgia Writers Museum (GWM) has announced 2023 Georgia Author of the Year Vanessa Riley as its Meet the Author presenter for May, discussing her new novel, Queen of Exiles, based on the true story of Haiti’s only queen.

“I can only say with a degree of confidence that what won the election for Jimmy Carter were the more than 600,000 hands he and Rosalyn shook.” So says Dorothy “Dot” Padgett, author of a new history/memoir, Jimmy Carter: Elected President with Pocket Change and Peanuts.

The news world is heating up for another hotly contested presidential race. However, few elections for the U.S. presidency were more unique than the one involving a peanut farmer from Plains who beat the incumbent officeholder.

For some Americans, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor did not settle the question of whether the United States should enter World War II against all the Axis powers. They saw no reason for American blood to be shed in a second European war, even against Nazi Germany, and resorted to familiar prejudices and hateful scapegoating to pursue their isolationist aims.

Stephen King called The Rumor Game, “A brilliant blend of crime, mystery, and American history … terrific entertainment.” Its author, Thomas Mullen, will be the Meet the Author presenter for March at downtown Eatonton’s Georgia Writers Museum (GWM).

History is filled with countless criminal and civil cases solved through the use of a polygraph, commonly known as a “lie detector.”

Is Eatonton “hainted?” Find out just in time for Halloween with Georgia Writers Museum’s (GWM’s) Haunted Eatonton Ghost Tours, starting at sundown on Oct. 27, 28, and 30 – when the ghosts come out.