A Distinguished Guest

The FKCC Library is honored and delighted to be hosting Sudye Cauthen, author of "Southern Comforts: Rooted in A Florida Place" at 6 p.m. March 5.
Carthen is the founder of North Florida Center for Documentary Studies and directed Florida’s First Folk Arts in the Schools program. You can find her work published in Chattahoochee Review, the Florida Review, International Quarterly, and Kalliope. She is a proud recipient of a state of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature award.
The book, which chronicles Cauthen’s life after her divorce and her father's death, opens the reader to her view as she returns to five generations of her life in a small town north of Gainsville. Cauthen traces the history of the region back to the late 1540s weaving family and oral histories together into community fabric being smothered by concrete as so called progress evaporates what was once it’s soul. This cautionary tale of progress and pain at least allows what was once to live on in the pages of this captivating book.
The author will read passages from her book and be available to those attending to answer questions about her career and her book.
Light refreshments will be served.