Joint Dinner Meeting of the
Burke County Genealogical Society
and the
Burke County Genealogical Society

Tuesday November 18,2014 at 6:30 pm Morganton Community House 120 N King Street - Morganton, NC 28655   The Speaker will be  Ann Robbins Phillips, author of "Making Family Stories Come Alive"

Ann Robbins Phillips is a Tennessee author who will show us how to make our family histories come alive. Her series of books of historical fiction -Revenge, Bad Blood, and Sorrow -are biographical sketches with factual and fictional accounts of her family. She wrote them based on her research in the mountains of North Carolina where her family lived for over one hundred years. She moves her books through the early years of the Hooper and Watson family that settled in Jackson County, NC, then to the places circumstances carried them--Cocke County, TN; Clifton, SC; and Morganton, NC. Her final book in the series is set in middle Tennessee where her family settled, and where she was born.

She says that writing has always been a part of her life, from making brochures for church or her family's varied businesses, to just making elaborate "lists" to organize their lives. Her love of genealogy spurred her interest in writing historical novels. As she researched her family, she found many colorful relatives on which she has loosely based her books.

Ms. Phillips is a member of the Chattanooga Writers Guild, Knoxville Writers Guild, Tennessee Mountain Writers, Alabama Writers, and the North Carolina Writers Network.

She and her minister husband, Sam Phillips, have 5 children and 15 grandchildren. Her parents, Myron and Lida Hooper Robbins, were born in Rutherford County, NC. Her grandparents, Henry Hooper and Eliza Melinda Mills Hooper, moved to Morganton after the flood of 1903 in Spartanburg County, SC.
Ms. Phillips will be signing her books after the meeting. For more on the speaker and her books, go to her web page.

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Both societies will be hold short business meetings immediately
 following the speaker's presentation. Reservations are required.

Dinner is Tuesday November 18, 2014 at 6:30 PM
Program will begin at  7:15 PM

You are welcome for dinner & the program or for the program only.

Reservations are required !

Please complete and mail the registration section
 below by Friday, November 14, 2014.

to

Burke County Historical Society
 PO Box 151
Morganton, NC 28680

Your reservations will be held at the door.
Please make check payable to the Burke County Historical Society.

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Questions ?
Ask: Mary Lou Furr -  Phone: (828) 437-1881 E-mail: mlfurr@hughes.net