Kathryn Tucker Windham wrote 30 books during her long career

I hated to read in The Mobile Press-Register on Monday that Kathryn Tucker Windham died at home in Selma on Sunday.

A long-time newspaper reporter, Windham died at age 93 and is probably best known for having written “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffery” in 1969. When I was growing up, I think every kid in my elementary school had read that book at least twice.

I knew that Windham had written other books during her eight-decade career, but I was surprised to learn earlier this week that she’d written at least 29 other books. Her other books included:

- “Treasured Alabama Recipes” (1967)
- “Exploring Alabama” (1970)
- “Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts” (1971)
- “Treasured Tennessee Recipes” (1972)
- “Treasured Georgia Recipes” (1973)
- “13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey” (1973)
- “13 Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey” (1974)
- “Southern Cooking to Remember” (1974)
- “Alabama: One Big Front Porch” (1975)
- “13 Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey” (1976)
- “The Ghost in the Sloss Furnances” (1978)
- “Count Those Buzzards! Stamp Those Grey Mules!: Superstitions Remembered from a Southern Childhood” (1979)
- “Jeffrey’s Latest 13: More Alabama Ghosts” (1982)
- “Terrible Legends in America” (1986)
- “A Serigamy of Stories” (1988)
- “Odd-Egg Editor” (1990)
- “The Autobiography of a Bell” (1991)
- “My Name is Julia” (1991)
- “A Sampling of Selma Stories” (1991)
- “Twice Blessed” (1996)
- “Encounters” (1997)
- “The Bridal Wreath Bush” (1999)
- “Piano Lessons and Other Recollections” (2000)
- “It's Christmas!” (2002)
- “Common Threads: Photographs and Stories from the South” (2004)
- “Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories” (2004)
- “Ernest's Gift” (2004)
- “Twice Blessed” (2007)
- “Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees: One Thing Leads to Another” (2009).

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Also this week, the good people at the Alabama Tourism Department released its list of Top 10 events to attend during the month of July, and this month’s list includes several events within reasonable driving distance of Evergreen.

Events on the list include:

- Dora’s 125th Anniversary Celebration, July 1-4, in Dora
- The Spirit of America Festival, July 3-4, in Decatur
- The 6th Annual “Fourth at The Wharf,” July 4, in Orange Beach
- The 37th Annual World Championship Domino Tournament, July 8-9, in Andalusia
- The 10th Annual Rogersville Alabama Bluegrass Festival, July 15-16, in Rogersville
- The 32nd Annual Atmore Rotary Club’s Old Time Fiddler’s Convention, July 16, in Atmore
- “Celebrate Opelika,” July 16, in Opelika
- Summerfest, July 22, in Millbrook
- The W.C. Handy Music Festival, July 22-30, in Florence
- The Russell Marine Aquapalooza!, July 23, in Alexander City.

If you’re looking for something to do next month, you probably can’t go wrong by attending any of the events listed above.

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Last week, I mentioned that Amazon.com had released its popular Best Books of June list, and this week Barnes & Noble released its “Best Books of the Month” list.

Titles on B&N’s Best Books of the Month list for Adults included:

- “The Hypnotist” by Lars Kepler
- “State of Wonder” by Ann Patchett
- “The Girls in the Blue Beret” by Bobbie Ann Mason
- “India” by Patrick French
- “Robopocalypse” by Daniel H. Wilson.

For these books to have come so highly recommended by Barnes & Noble, they’re probably pretty decent.