Clintonians invited to book talk featuring works by Walter Howell

Special to The Clinton Courier

     The Clinton community is invited to the Clinton Visitor Center on Thursday, October 24, from 5:30 to7:30 p.m. for a book talk on Walter Howell’s Town and Gown, The Saga of Clinton and Mississippi College, presented by Dr. Ron Howard, and Fallen Comrade, A Story of the Korean War, presented by Tom Henderson.  The program will begin at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

     Walter Howell, a former mayor of Clinton, Mississippi, was appointed City of Clinton Historian in 2013. He is a former Professor of History at Mississippi College and author of Preachers and the People Called Methodists in Clinton, Mississippi Since 1831.

     Town and Gown, The Saga of Clinton and Mississippi College recounts the working relationship between the community and Mississippi College over almost two hundred years of political, economic and cultural development and change. Dr. Ron Howard is Emeritus Provost and Professor of History and Political Science at Mississippi College, where he served as teacher and administrator for forty-two years.  Dr. Howard has a Bachelor of Arts from Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City, Tennessee, and the Master of Arts and PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  His specialty is early American history.  He has lived in Clinton since 1977.

     Fallen Comrade, A Story of the Korean War presents an account of three young marines from Clinton, Mississippi, who found themselves on the battlefield of the Korean War in the spring of 1951.  Through letters, reminiscence and photographs, the book tells their story from childhood in Clinton to the front lines. Tom Henderson is a retired librarian. He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi and Florida State University.  He has worked at the Department of Archives and History, Mississippi State University Libraries, the Mississippi Library Commission, and retired as director of the Millsaps College Library.  He assisted Dr. Howell with his book Fallen Comrade, A Story of the Korean War.

     Town and Gown, The Saga of Clinton and Mississippi College is available exclusively at the Clinton Visitor Center.  Fallen Comrade, A Story of the Korean War is available at the at the Clinton Visitor Center and the University Press of Mississippi.

     The Clinton Visitor Center is located at 1300 Pinehaven Road, at Milepost 89 on the Natchez Trace Parkway. For more details, call 601-924-2221.