Presenting Artist Laura Murphey’s February 2022 Art Gallery
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Presenting Artist Laura Murphey’s February 2022 Art Gallery

Come by the Ellenburg Art Gallery during the month of February to experience paintings, sketchings and casts from Alabama artist, Laura Kelly Murphey. Laura was born in Huntsville, Alabama and began taking private oil painting lessons in high school, working with basically the same limited palette she uses today. She studied painting at Kennesaw State…

Series Spotlight: Kingdom Of Souls
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Series Spotlight: Kingdom Of Souls

Looking to get lost in a new adventure? Let’s dive deep. Series Spotlight highlights various Teen/YA Book Series. (Titles are listed in series order). This time we highlight the Kingdom of Souls series written by Rena Barron. Author Rena Barron grew up in small-town Alabama where stories of magic and adventure sparked her imagination. After…

New Teen Fiction – January
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New Teen Fiction – January

African Town Irene Lathan & Charles Waters Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama…