The Hickory Reading Club's September fourteenth meeting, held at New Fellowship Baptist Church, was hosted by Faye Anderson and Sarah Jones. An Italian menu, sunflowers-and-books centerpieces, and brightly colored tableware welcomed guests and members to this first meeting of the new club year.
Phyllis Cain's meditation, based on scripture from Jeremiah and Kings, focused on the use of prayer and our remembering that God will supply what is needed, not necessarily what is wanted.
For the meeting's program, Judy Leach used Edward Humes's book The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder (2022) This true account follows detective Jim Scharf and geneticist CeCe Moore's use of well-preserved biological evidence to solve the 1987 Pacific Northwest murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook. The investigators' work led to the arrest of Bill Talbott, over thirty years after his crime and landmarked the moral-dilemma provoking forensic use of DNA evidence in murder trials.
