Author Talk: Tony Horwitz

The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era with Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, an epic adventure on the trail of America’s greatest landscape architect. The Raven Book Store will sell copies of Horwitz's book and a signing will follow his talk. Presented in partnership with Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area, Inc., the Watkins Museum of History, and the Raven Book Store.

Doors at 6 pm, event starts at 7 pm.

In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times.