Author schedules book-signings

PRAIRIE du ROCHER, Ill. -- Dr. Margaret Kimball Brown, author of "History as They Lived It: A Social History of Prairie du Rocher, Ill.," will be available for two book signings in the Prairie du Rocher area on Saturday.

Brown, a native of Prairie du Rocher, will sign her book at 10 a.m. at Fort de Chartres, Ill., and at 2 p.m. at the Ste. Genevieve Interpretive Center. Prairie du Rocher was settled on the banks of the Mississippi River southeast of St. Louis.

It is the only one remaining of seven French colonial villages that once occupied the area.

For more information on the book, call publisher The Patrice Press at (800) 367-9242.