Program and Book-signing with author, Janis F. Kearney

Doors open at 11:30 on February 23, 2024, program begins at Noon. Brown bag it--or bring in your take-out. Water is provided by the FSMH. Only on Sundays: Mahalia Jackson’s Long Journey will be available for purchase. 

About the author: Janis F. Kearney dreamed of becoming a writer as a child. Her parents, however, were poor cotton sharecroppers, and her days were filled with helping out in the cotton fields when she wasn’t in school. A writing life had to wait. It was many years later that her reality met up with her dream. Today, Janis is a nonfiction and fiction writer, whose first book was published shortly after she turned 51 years old. She has described that first book, Cotton Field of Dreams as a love letter to her parents.

Since then, Janis has written extensively about her life journey, including a second memoir, Something to Write Home…