Author Event: Janis F. Kearney
Date and Time
Feb 5, 2015 5:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Feb 5, 2015 5:00 pm
450K
Join author Janis Kearney as she discusses her latest memoir Sundays with TJ: 100 Years of Memories on Varner Road
Trains, and boats and the Mississippi River are the things that defined young TJ Kearney of southeast Arkansas. At 107-years old, he has seen it all, and lived to tell it...and, tell it, he does. The 107-year old TJ Kearney has spent his lifetime sharing the stories of his life with family, friends and passersby who happened to stop by, on Varner Road. Born just 40 years after Lincoln's Abolition of Slavery, in the atypical southern town of Lake Village, Arkansas; TJ's life was defined by struggles, losses and miracles. The wanderer-turned family patriarch was first introduced in Janis F. Kearney's award winning memoir, "Cotton Field of Dreams," in 2004. Now, just months after he passed in 2013, the author reintroduces TJ to old and new acquaintances.
Janis F Kearney, author, memoirist and oral historian is one of 19 children born to Arkansas Delta sharecroppers and cotton farmers. She graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a B.A. in Journalism. She worked for Civil Rights legend Daisy Gatson Bates as Managing Editor of the Arkansas State Press Newspaper before purchasing the newspaper in 1988, and becoming Publisher/Owner of the award-winning publication. She served eight years in the Clinton Administration, serving in the roles of White House Media Specialist; Communications Director –U.S. Small Business Administration, and Personal Diarist to President William Jefferson Clinton. Kearney founded Writing our World Publishing (WOW! Press) in 2001.
Books will be for sale at the event.
Free and open to all!
