Join us at the AJC Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the country, for the Humanities track and more:

The Impact of Changing Atlanta, Saturday, 1:45 p.m.-2:30 p.m., Decatur Library
Hannah Palmer and Mark Pendergrast will discuss their books, Flight Path: A Search for Roots Beneath the World’s Busiest Airport and City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America’s Urban Future, respectively

Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination, Saturday, 4:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m., First Baptist Decatur (Carreker Hall)
Melissa L. Cooper discusses her book of the same title

What Would Gene Patterson Say Now?, Saturday, 5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m., First Baptist Decatur (Sanctuary)
Hank Klibanoff, Andrew Young, Roy Peter Clark, and Howell Raines will discuss how the Atlanta Constitution’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gene Patterson might have handled the contemporary newsroom

Civil War Love Letters, Sunday, 1:15 p.m.-2:00 p.m., First Baptist Decatur (Carreker Hall)
Stephen Berry and Vince Dooley and Samuel Thomas will discuss their books, Practical Strangers: The Courthsip Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln and The Legion’s Fighting Bulldog: The Civil War Correspondence of William Gaston Delony, Lieutenant Colonel of Cobb’s Georgia Legion Cavalry, and Rosa Delony, 1853-1863, respectively