Barbara Ann Ingram Baldwin

Barbara Ann Ingram Baldwin grew up in the northeast corner of Elmore County in the 1940's and 1950's.  She attended the Red Hill School during those years.  She has written a comprehensive  history of her first alma mater, "Red Hill School History, I remember when..."  It has become the go to book for the documention of the early years of Red Hill School.  The alumni of Red Hill School as well as well as the family and friends of the alumni have thoroughly enjoyed the results of her research on our school and community landmark. 

Raymond Eugene Hall

Raymond grew up in Red Hill in the 1940's and 50's.  He wrote a memoir of his growing up in Red Hill entitled "Channahatchee Moon."  He also cowrote two novels of his Hall ancestors coming to Alabama as orphans in the 1850's.

Irene Clayton Chambers

Irene Clayton Chambers grew up on the Old Gold Mine road area of northeast Elmore County.  She has written two books about her growing up years and a book of poetry.  Both the memoir books and the poetry volume carry the reader back to a time when most of the amenities that we take for granted today were non-existent or hard to come by.

Myra Singleton Johnson

Tallassee’s local author and historian, Myra Johnson was educated at Tallassee High School and Auburn University Montgomery. Her career in office administration spanned over half a century in the fields of Landscape Architecture, City Planning, Urban Renewal, Architecture and International Construction.
A love of history and writing allowed her to have published articles in several local magazines. She is a founding member of Talisi Historical Preservation Society and has held various office within the Society such as Secretary, Grants Director, Historian and most recently as Curator of the Tallassee Falls Museum. She is a founder of Alabama River Region Arts Center and served on the ARRAC Board of Directors. She has served as a member and officer of United Daughters of Confederacy Sophie Bibb Chapter, the Camp Watts Society, Friends of Tuckabatchee, Tallassee High School Alumni Association, and is a member of the Operations Board of Mt. Vernon Theater Group, among numerous other volunteer efforts.
Through her love of history and genealogy, she has authored several books and one cookbook. Ms. Johnson makes her home among family and friends in the small Alabama town where she grew up. Contact her at huntn4bears@elmore.rr.com or directly purchase her books at www.lulu.com/spotlight/huntn4bears

Debra Taunton Hughey

Debra Taunton Hughey has no college degree in archaeology, anthropology, or even history, but she is considered by many as the expert of Muskogee Creek Native American culture in the Tallapoosa River Valley of East-Central Alabama. 

Discovering new things about the original inhabitants of the Tallassee, Alabama area has been her life-long passion.  She has read hundreds of books on the subject, made acquaintances  with numerous archaeologists from local universities as well as native peoples from Alabama, Oklahoma and the southeast United States.  She has spent much of her time roaming up and down the Tallapoosa River her entire life.  

Her life experiences, along with her Native American ancestry and heritage, provide her with an excellent ability to write with authority and accuracy on the original inhabitants of our area.

Larry Williamson

Larry Williamson grew up in East Tallassee and moved back home when he retired from thirty-six years of teaching high school math and coaching football and track. Though an engineering graduate of Auburn University, he gravitated to education and taught in several Kentucky and Alabama public and private schools. A lifelong fascination with local history and culture led to these three historical novels. In addition, he has published Over the River, Long Ago, a volume of stories about growing up in Tallassee in the ‘40s and ‘50s. He currently teaches the novel writing class for the Outreach Program at Auburn University.

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