Ken Trainor sits down with best-selling author, William Hazelgrove to discuss Ken’s new book, “Our Town Oak Park – Walk with Me, in Search of True Community,” based on columns published in Wednesday Journal over the past three decades, which chronicle life in our dynamic, ever-evolving community where the unique meets the universal. The unifying thread is true community, finding it in the extraordinary ordinary, in the day-to-day, the face-to-face, the moments of beauty or, as Thornton Wilder said of his play, “Our Town,” finding “a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life.” So join us as we embrace community.

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Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Registration is requested as event capacity is limited.

Ken Trainor has been with Growing Community Media for 30 years, wearing almost every hat available, including Forest Park Review editor, Austin Weekly News editor, Wednesday Journal managing editor and, currently, copy editor, Viewpoints editor, and obituaries editor. He has written upward of 2,000 columns and still hasn’t run out of things to say.

William Hazelgrove is the National Bestselling author of ten novels and twelve nonfiction titles. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly Kirkus, Booklist, Book of the Month Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards Junior Library Guild Selections, Literary Guild Selections, History Book Club Selections, History Book Club Bestsellers, Distinguished Book Award. and optioned for the movies. He was the first Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. https://www.williamhazelgrove.com/