The Storyteller Strikes Back: The Return of the Great Storyteller to Polk County Local Author, Dwight L. Macpherson It all started with a Show and Tell session gone spectacularly off script. Five-year-old Dwight L. MacPherson marched to the front of his elementary school classroom ready to share his latest outdoor adventure—and share he did. But when his tale took a sudden left turn involving “a gorilla coming over to talk to his sisters and tell them how to get back home,” h

TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF I am a writer, author, and poet who believes in the power of words to inspire and connect. I love to travel and use it as a creative source for my writing. I make it a priority to explore and immerse myself in a variety of cuisines and cultures, always seeking to expand my views and deepen my understanding of the world. I love to garden and spend most of my free time planting fruit trees, nurturing my garden, and creating a space to read, write

Join Edward R. Murrow and four-time Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist and author Bob Kealing at the Winter Haven Public Library exactly sixty years to the afternoon when The Beatles arrived in Florida. Part of the library’s “Music Near & Far” 2024 lecture series, Kealing will discuss his most recent book, “Good Day Sunshine State: How The Beatles Rocked Florida,” on Tuesday, February 13 at 5:30pm. During his years as a deadline reporter, Kealing became interested in sto

In May of this year, St. Louis, Missouri native and twenty-year Lakeland resident Derrick McBride released his debut selfpublished novel, “One Search for All.” Inspired by true events that transpired in 1970s Fulton, Missouri, the story follows Miss Willie Swanson Edwards and the author’s grandfather, Jack McBride. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Following years spent in program development and fundraising within the nonprofit sector, Derrick McBride turned his focus to presenting, keynote,

There is magic on the pages and in the minds of Hocus Pocus creators Dwight and Rebecca MacPherson. The Lakeland couple met and fell in love through a comic book – now they make their own. Creative Roots “I love literature; I’m a literature nerd first,” said Dwight MacPherson. “I love the way you can create a movie in a book.” Influenced by the work of Alan Moore and Chris Claremont, Dwight has been interested in comics since childhood. He remembers reading Moore’s “Swamp Thi