winchester tales

Winchester Tales

5 February 2021

We pre-recorded today’s conversation via Zoom to chat with local author and historian, Mike Robinson about his books Winchester Tales. He’s hosting a book signing at Solenberger’s True Value Hardware on Saturday, February 6 from 10am – 4pm. You can get more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/3575715375881058

Mike talked about his love of local history, how he researches his stories and explained this book series began as a pandemic project and has blossomed into a community-based passion project.

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