DALTON, Ga. – The Bandy Heritage Center will be kicking off a new summer author series at 6:30 p.m., July 17 to commemorate the legacy of Dalton author Marian McCamy Sims.
The 2025 Marian McCamy Sims Summer Author Series features award-winning Georgia authors Mark Warren and Donna Coffey Little. The series will focus on the history and culture of the Cherokees who inhabited the southern Appalachian region of northwest Georgia.
The first lecture will be presented by renowned author and primitive arts instructor Mark Warren and is titled “Native American Medicines of the Southeast.” Warren will demonstrate how the diverse flora of the Southeast once provided everything that was needed by the original inhabitants. He will also show how our modern day ignoring of these gifts is what separates us from a life of truly interacting with nature on an intimate level. That loss has, no doubt, contributed to our careless handling of the land, Warren said. “The good news is that this trend can be reversed, one person at a time,” he said…