Poetry readings to be outdoors

Poetry readings to be outdoors

YOUNGSTOWN

Pig Iron Literary and Art Works has scheduled outdoor Second Tuesday Open Poetry Readings that will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 13 and Aug. 10 in the AMPCO parking lot behind Pig Iron Press on Commerce Street, between Phelps and Hazel streets.

Registration to read will be until 7:20 p.m. at the site, where seating and open microphone will be provided. Admission is free, and pizza will be sold. In case of inclement weather, the events will move indoors.

For more information, call 330-747-6932.

Local author to sign books at brewery

YOUNGSTOWN

Sam Moffie of Boardman will sign copies of his latest novel, “The Book of Eli,” from noon to 5 p.m. June 19 at the Rust Belt Brewing Co., in the old B&O Station, 530 Mahoning Ave.

He will have copies of his three other novels available, and there will be live music and beer tasting.

For more information, contact Moffie at uel0409@aol.com or call 330-550-4281; or Kenneth Blair, rustybrew@gmail.com or call 330-423-3818.

Lowery book based on true crime story

WARREN

Anne Lowery of New London, a daughter of a former Warren area police officer, has published her first book, “Rumor Has It,” a true crime story about the 1974 murders of Joseph and Edward Hooker at their home in rural Ashland County.

The plot includes the controversy that erupted in the small town of New London when officials decided to build a reservoir outside the village in order to supply drinking water to the town, the murder of the brothers, and the gossip that the author contends led to their deaths.

The book can be ordered online at www.thunderhillpublishing.com/rumorhasit.

Vindicator staff reports