Cushing — There will be a Coffee & Muffin book signing Tuesday, Sept. 18 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Cushing Historical Society's barn on Hathorn Point Road.

Joanna Willimetz will share her newly published book, “Raccoon Child of a Child,” a true tale for adults and children of a Tennessee mountain man and his raccoon. In the early days of the civil rights movement, Willimetz was a staff member of the inter-racial adult education Highlander Folk School, in which Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt and pre-bus days Rosa Parks were participants.

The public is encouraged to attend. For more information, call 354-8966.

Courier Publications’ A&E Editor Dagney C. Ernest can be reached at (207) 594-4401 or dernest@courierpublicationsllc.com.