Southern author, columnist, and public speaker Cappy Hall Rearick will speak at the Lanier Librarys Brown Bag Lunch program on Tuesday, October 19 at 12 p.m. The program is free and everyone is welcome.

Rearick, originally from Orangeburg, S.C., now lives and writes in St. Simons Island, Ga. She is the author of five newspaper and magazine columns, the newest of which is Puttin on the Gritz which appears monthly in the Lowcountry Sun newspaper in Charleston.

She has also written award-winning short stories, published under the title Return to Rocky Bottom and a novel titled Seldom Seen. She is a past president of the Southeastern Writers Association and is also a creative writing instructor and public speaker.

Torry Monroe, publisher and editor of Senior Sun says of her: When Cappy Hall Rearick writes, she lays the flavor of the South down on paper with witty realism. She offers a great insight into the mind of a Southern female with honesty and laughs to spare. Her humor has been compared with that of both Fannie Flagg and Irma Bombeck.

The Brown Bag Lunch programs at the Lanier Library are held on the third Tuesday of most months. The programs are always free and everyone is welcome. Those attending are also encouraged to bring their lunch.