ATHENS– The Center for Lifelong Learning at Athens State University will host a presentation and book signing by Richard Adams,
Richard Adams
author of Eben Kruge: How “A Christmas Carol” Came to be Written – a story about Charles Dickens. The event will be held on Monday, November 25 at 6:00 p.m. The Center for Lifelong Learning is located at 121 S. Marion Street on the east side of the Limestone County Courthouse Square in Athens.
Adams, a member of the original London “Dickens Fellowship,” sets the stage for Charles Dickens at the age of thirty to address an audience about the circumstances of his life and his great anticipation, searching out the man Eben Kruge, whose black turned to white quite literally overnight.
Eben Kruge is a recipient of a ForeWord Clarion five-star book review, is a story about what inspired Dickens to write A Christmas Carol, which for one hundred and seventy years at Christmas time has drawn people to their better nature and universally engendered a sense of concern and charity for the poor and downtrodden. The story setting is factual and will come as a surprise to most readers, as will the reality that A Christmas Carol was Dickens’s first completed fictional work after the events of Eben Kruge.
In addition to being a writer and speaker, Adams is a forensic engineering consultant, a Vietnam veteran, a former Army aviator, and a former ski instructor for Vail Resorts. He is the first of three brothers to graduate from West Point. His first book, the award-winning historical novel, The Parting: A Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War, is the true and epic story of the West Point Class of 1861 during its final year at the Academy.
The presentation and book-signing are free and open to the public. For more information call 256-233-8260.
