Authors Jack Carneal (Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives) and Grace Elizabeth Hale (Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture) share their stories about being in the room where it happened: Carneal in the backing band to Will Oldham for years of international touring, and Hale in the college town where the B-52s, R.E.M., and others launched their careers. Book sales and signing will follow. FREE to attend and open to the public.