Feb. 18, 2025
Author Ron Kirkwood will present and sign copies of his new book “Tell Mother Not to Worry”
Ron Kirkwood has spent the last eight years researching the George Spangler farm in Gettysburg and has written two books on it: “Too Much for Human Endurance”: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg, which was published in 2019, and the sequel “Tell Mother Not to Worry” in 2024. He is retired after a 40-year career in newspapers and magazines including USA TODAY, Baltimore Sun, Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News, York (PA) Daily Record, and Midland (MI) Daily News. Ron edited national magazines for USA TODAY Sports, was NFL editor for USA TODAY Sports Weekly, and managed the Harrisburg copy desk when the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. He is a native of Dowagiac/Sister Lakes, MI, and a graduate of Central Michigan University, where he has returned as a guest speaker to journalism classes as part of the school’s Hearst Visiting Professionals series. Ron and his wife of almost 50 years, Barbara, live in the deer-filled countryside outside of Pittsburgh.
Meeting will be 7:00 pm in the Old Drummond Chapel at Suncrest United Methodist Church, 479 Van Voorhis Road, Morgantown, WV