Do you remember way back when? ... Gulf Coast Media ran a series of columns written by Harriet Outlaw? Readers looked forward to the bi-weekly tales from our area. She wrote about Spanish moss, …
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Do you remember way back when? ... Gulf Coast Media ran a series of columns written by Harriet Outlaw?
Readers looked forward to the bi-weekly tales from our area. She wrote about Spanish moss, ghosts of local sites, face jugs and all sorts of local interest topics.
Many of those columns are now available in her new publication, "Tale Tellin' Southern Style." Local publishing company Intellect Publishing will release the book, a coffee table and gift book edition. "I have had so much fun editing and publishing this collection. When I drive by places in the book, I always point them out to my wife. This is a wonderful way to connect with our local communities," John Woods said.
Outlaw will welcome guests to the launch of the book where she will also tell a story or two from the book. The event is planned for Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Fairhope Pubic Library starting at 6 p.m. The book will be available for sale at the event.
Gulf Coast Media also welcomes Outlaw's new series of columns with a different slant. The series is dubbed "Way Back When." Many of the topics explore events and people she experienced first-hand but realizes that now most people have no idea about the fascinating people and places that once were common knowledge along the Gulf Coast.
Outlaw's columns will feature people she dubs "characters," those who left indelible imprints on our local culture. Look for stories about Hatchett Chandler and Walter Overton. She tells about places that today look nothing like they did years ago and takes the reader on visits to rarely seen sites with a history worth the telling.
Her folksy style of storytelling makes for a different kind of storytelling, which is not only fun but enlightening as to primitive "country" narrative. She has co-authored or authored six books of local interest and produced a number of documentaries with the public school system and Baldwin County Commission, all on Youtube.
