Local authors featured at event
WAYNESBURG – Members of Cornerstone Genealogical Society vowed they wouldn’t let a February snowstorm white out the group’s inaugural Authors’ Day.
The society was planning a book-signing event Feb. 21 to promote 11 local authors when storm blanketed Waynesburg with seven inches of snow, forcing the group to cancel the event and scramble to reschedule.
They immediately regrouped and were able to reschedule nine of the original authors for the meet-and-greet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the log courthouse on Greene Street.
“It’s definitely exciting,” board member Bonnie Kiger said. “When we started, we didn’t realize there were so many (authors) and there are probably more we didn’t even know about. It kind of just fell into our laps … with all these authors we have here. It’s pretty amazing all these people come from Greene County.”
One of those authors, Jim Weinschenker, said he and others were “very disappointed” about the previous cancellation, but are grateful the event could be rescheduled with many of the attendees who were planning to come.
“I think it’s huge, more for the recognition that we have this type of talent in Greene County,” he said.
All of authors still live in Greene County, except for L.E. Hewitt, who is originally from the county and now lives in the state of Indiana.
The society is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and Kiger thinks this book signing will bring the community together.
“It was just a little spark and it blossomed from there,” she said.
Admission is free and open to the public. The nine authors and their books include:
• “Personal Stories from the Kent Dynasty” by Audrey Kiger Comport;
• “Justice in Greene” by the Rev. John Dorean;
• “The Sleigh and the Key” by Marilyn Brewer Eichenlaub;
• “Greene Over Blue” by Jerry Hardy;
• “Life Between the Raindrops,” “My Wonderful Chaos” and “Chasing the Silver Lining” by L.E. Hewitt;
• “Around Greensboro” by Michele Buday Murray;
• “Oil & Gas Well Locations, Greene County, Pennsylvania, 1863-2013” by Thad Swestyn;
• “Waynesburg” by Glenn Toothman; and
• “Waynesburg & Washington Railroad, Second Number 4” by Jim Weinschenker.