Author to hold book signing Oct. 28 in Franklin

Author Nancy E. Potter will be in Franklin on Saturday, Oct. 28, for the Harvest Moon Festival to sign copies of her book, Barbours cut: Beyond the River’s Reach.
The fictionalized book follows the career of riverboat captain Clyde barbour, whose water transportation empire began in Franklin.
The books combines family lore, documented facts and the author’s imagination to create a largely factual story based on her great-grandparents’ lives.
Barbour lived and worked on his family’s flatboat on the Mississippi River, then became a steamboat captain.
Barbour was a self-educated man of culture with a passion for architecture, design and the arts, according to a press release about the book.
Potter, a native of New Orleans, will have a books signing at the Lamppost Reception Hall, located at 731 Main St. in Franklin, from 10 a.m. to noon.