The author onslaught continues!!  Jim C pointed out this article in a recent First Baptist Church newsletter (page 5) about a visit from renowned author Bill Bryson on October 11th.

Bill Bryson, acclaimed nonfiction writer, will speak about his new book, One Summer: America, 1927 on October 11 at 7 p.m. in the FBCD sanctuary. The doors will open at 6 p.m. Bryson’s appearance is sponsored by the FBCD Conversations Ministry in connection with the Georgia Center for the Book, and is free to the public.

One Summer transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 included the following events:

• • Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop.
• • Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record; he hit his 60th on September 30.
• • Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her husband, leading to a murder trial that became a huge tabloid sensation.
• • Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve days—a new record.
• • The American South was clobbered by unprecedented rain and by flooding of the Mississippi basin.
• • Calvin Coolidge interrupted an already leisurely presidency for an even more relaxing three-month vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
• • The gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business through a murderous reign of terror and municipal corruption.
• • The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s “The Jazz Singer”, was filmed
• • The four most powerful central bankers on earth met in secret session on a Long Island estate and made a fateful decision that virtually guaranteed a future crash and depression.

All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.

I think we’re well overdue for a new “for the money” thread, no?  What better way to revive the franchise than with the world’s most popular bird?

Now, feel free to take this thread in a few different directions.  Some may want to talk fried or roasted chicken.  Others may want to discuss where to buy the best raw chicken.  Others may want to discuss backyard chicken farming.  It’s up to you!

Photo courtesy of DecaturWineandFoodDude’s blog

From Decatur Police…

On 09/17/13 at approximately 12:25 am, Decatur Police responded to an attempted robbery. The victim stated at approximately 11:30 pm (09/16/13) he exited the East Lake Marta station and was walking through the parking lot to the intersection of East Lake Drive and Park Place when he noticed a male following him and trying to get closer. Upon reaching the intersection, the suspect ran up to him and repeatedly said “Give me you phone!”. The suspect held his hand in the waistband of his pants insinuating he had a weapon. The victim put his phone in his pocket and refused. The suspect withdrew his hand from his waistband, stretched out his arm and with his fingers mimicked having a gun and again demanded the phone. The victim could see the suspect did not have a gun in his hand and “bowed up” at the suspect who then turned and fled on foot back toward the East Lake Marta station. The victim continued walking home and called police. No weapon was seen. The victim was not injured. No items were taken. The suspect was described as a black male, 19-23 years old, approximately 5’6 and 140 lbs, no noticeable facial hair, hair in dreds approximately 3” long, wearing a white crew neck t-shirt, jeans and black shoes.