By B. Scott Mohr
Editor

If you have several readers on your Christmas shopping list, you will want to stop by The Southsider Voice on Friday, as the authors of three books will be on hand to sell and sign copies of their works.
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Sure to be of interest to Southsiders is “Remember When, ...” which was penned by Voice Editor B. Scott Mohr and Publisher Kelly Sawyers.

The book takes a retrospective look at the community through the archives of The Spotlight newspaper. More than 1,000 news briefs from 1955, ’65, ’75, ’85 and ’95 are complimented by 225-plus nostalgic photographs and advertisements. You most certainly will read about or see a picture or two of people you know. Who knows ... you might even read about yourself. 
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Mohr and Sawyers will be available from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. to discuss their inaugural book, of which they hope is the first of many. The book costs $25. 

From 1-3 p.m., Rick Shaffer and Barry Browning will sign “Hail, Hail Our Southport!” a history of the city of Southport and the high school. Shaffer wrote the book, while Browning scanned the photos.
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From the earliest settlers who called Southport home in 1823 to the present-day municipality and the school, the book is an interesting read for anyone with ties to the area.

Shaffer, a 1970 graduate of Southport, teamed with former classmates Browning and Jay Danner in an exhaustive research project to track down historical information. 

They envisioned the book, whose title comes from a lyric in the school fight song, being an update of “A Century of Pride of Progress,” which was published in 1994 and covered the school’s first 100 years. But shortly into the endeavor, Shaffer realized his book would take a different approach, a perspective with which Browning and Danner wholeheartedly agreed.