An Evening with Abby Burnett
Community Event with Book Signing
Monday, September 28
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Bentonville Public Library
Walmart Foundation Community RoomIn partnership with Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society
Welcome to An Evening with author Abby Burnett!
Join us on Monday, September 28th at 6:00 PM (Central Time) for an evening discussing Ms. Burnett's recent title, Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850–1950, published by University Press of Mississippi. She is an independent researcher who, as seen in the Arkansas Educational Television Network’s 2010 documentary Silent Storytellers, studies such things as long-lost burial customs, tombstone symbolism, epitaphs, and the work of early stone carvers. She has written entries on graveyards, stone carvers, and early medicine for the online CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas, in addition to doing public speaking on all aspects of burial in Arkansas, her adopted state for the past forty years.
This event is brought to you by Bentonville Public Library and Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society.
Bentonville Public Library
Bentonville Public Library is a department of the City of Bentonville. Bentonville Public Library is located just 3 blocks south of the Downtown Square, at 405 S. Main Street in Bentonville, Arkansas. Facility amenities include adult collection, children's and teen spaces, private study rooms, event spaces, makerspace and digital lab, genealogy research center, sensory and wellness room, business centers, book club lounge, and café.