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Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat with our guest Bill Guerrant, local goatherd, Vice President of Pittsylvania Historical Society, and author of four books including “Jim Wrenn” and “Let a Pillar Arise”. We discuss reading in all its many varieties, including newspapers and the dictionary and the importance of keeping historical research alive.

Books we discuss include:

• “A Primer for Star Gazers” by Henry M. Neely
• The Dictionary
• “Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki” by Robert Trumbull
• “Baudolino” by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
• “Looking for Class” by Bruce Feiler
• “Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War” by Maury Klein

View Bill Guerrant's works:

• A Daily Dose of History
• A Daily Dose of the American Rev
• Novels by William Guerrant on Amazon
• Novels by William Guerrant at the library