Mary Land

Monroe City Schools' Teresa Foreman reads excerpts from "Mary Land: When I Was Big Enough to Tote a Gun, I Did" by Karen Trahan Leathem.

River Reads selections are adapted with permission from Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times edited by Janet Allured and Judith Gentry, published by the University of Georgia Press.

More information about the Ouachita Parish Public Library's River Reads program is available at www.oplib.org/riverreads.htm.