Lunch With Books: Bestselling Author James Alexander Thom

July 26, 2016
12:00pm - 12:00pm

James Thom, the bestselling author of Follow the River, will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on Tuesday, July 28 at noon to discuss his new historical novel, Fire in the Water. Paddy Quinn, a Harper's Weekly correspondent covering Abraham Lincoln's burial in Illinois, boards the doomed steamboat Sultana to go up river and write Lincoln’s elegy. He is soon witness to the horror of the worst maritime disaster in American history.  The Sultana disaster has a strong Wheeling connection. Among the survivors were Wheeling natives: Henry Foster, George Loy, James McKendry, Theophilas Richardson, George Smith, and Zachary Taylor Woodyard. Wheeling natives who did not survive included William Crudas, Alexander Manners, and Allen Stephens. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Attendees are welcome to bring a bag lunch and complimentary beverages are provided.