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.
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.
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.
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