Book signing
The Town Crier Bookstore will be host for Kathleen Whitmer for a booksigning from 11 a.m. until noon Thursday. The book, “Chronicles of The Farm Woman: The Story of Mary Frances McKinney,” is a compilation of articles written from 1932 until 1962 by Mary Frances Evans McKinney for The Emporia Gazette under the heading, “The Farm Woman.”
Book on Kansas City Star
Harry Haskell, former music editor of the Kansas City Star, has written “Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star,” which, according to the press release “explores the newspaper’s transformation from populist crusader to pawn of corporate culture — and the lessons it holds for journalism today.”
Haskell will give a presentation at 7 p.m. Friday at the Emporia Public Library, 110 E. Sixth Ave., after which he will have a book signing. The book “chronicles the colorful newspaper history when Tom Pendergast, J.C. Nichols, Frank Walsh, William Rockhill Nelson and Henry J. Haskell (grandfather of the author), were players in shaping the Kansas City we know today. Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Henry J. Haskell was a friend and associate of William Allen White. Upon White’s death, at widow Sallie White’s request, Henry J. Haskell delivered the eulogy at the funeral of William Allen White in Kenyon Hall on the College of Emporia campus on Jan. 31, 1944.
Harry Haskell, now of Guilford, Conn., is also the author of “The Early Music Revival: A History and the Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticism. His appearance is sponsored by the William Allen White Community Partnership, Inc., and the Emporia Public Library.
Play bingo to win turkey
The American Legion Post 332 in Lebo will sponsor a “turkey shoot” bingo game at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 at the legion hall. Turkeys will be given away to winners, and a drawing for door prizes will be held at 10 p.m.