Bill Lightle will be at the Lake Blackshear Regional Library on February 25th, 7:00pm to talk about his latest book, Mill Daddy. Bill Lightle was born in Indiana in 1957 but moved to Albany, Georgia, in 1966.  In addition to his writing, he has been a classroom teacher for more than 20 years. After his first book, Made or Broken: Football & Survival in the Georgia Woods, was published, the Georgia senate passed a resolution honoring Mr. Lightle for “his passion for education, history, and the furtherance of social justice.” He is currently working on a third book scheduled for release summer 2010. He is married to Phyllis Lightle, who also edits his books, and has two sons.
       In Mill Daddy, Bill Lightle has given us both an enduring love story and a tribute to Roy Davis' indomitable spirit that sustained him and his poor family through sharecropping, the Great Depression, and the hard, hard work in a cotton mill. Davis was born in South Georgia in 1916 and picked cotton as a boy until his hands bled. He left the red fields of pain for a cotton mill job some 30 miles away in Albany. There he found a pretty young mill girl, Anna Carnes, whom he called his "angel." He never left his angel. She never left him. This story is about their love and family and how they survived in a sometimes mean and cruel world. Lightle describes Davis as an "authentic American hero."

Downloadable Audiobooks Are Back!

The Lake Blackshear Regional Library System once again offers audiobooks for download. Check out the GADD website here for more information, or stop in and ask at any of our system libraries. 

 

 The Lake Blackshear Regional Library (Americus) holds a subscription to BookPage, courtesy of the Sumter County Friends of the Public Library, and keeps current copies at the front desk. These are free to the public. Click here to go to the online BookPage.

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Mission

The Lake Blackshear Regional Library System's mission is to provide organized access to information through various formats and meet educational, informational, recreational and cultural needs of the citizens of Crisp, Dooly, Schley and Sumter Counties, and to improve efficiency in operations.

 

SUMTER COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD 

• Bell, Marie
• Cotter, Ellen 
• Collins, Tom
• Dowdell-Pope, Linda
• Gurnack, Elizabeth
• Jones, Krystal (Chair of the Sumter Board)
• Laster, Gabe
• Murray, Bill
• Patterson, Dorothy
• Sanders, Susie
• Strange, Elsie 
• Tarver, Sharon  

The Sumter County Library Board meets at 6:00 PM on the first Tuesday of January, April, July and October at the Lake Blackshear Regional Library.