Local author Barbara Dumas Ballew will be available to sign copies of her novel, George’s Creek to Georgia, July 1 and 2, at the Smoky Mountain Firecracker Fest in Franklin.

George’s Creek to Georgia is a journey through four generations of Barbara Dumas Ballew’s family. Ballew, a genealogist and storyteller, takes readers back to a simpler time when a young, illiterate pioneer purchased land for his first farm, met the woman of his dreams and started a family.

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