Press Release - For Immediate Release

Media Contact: Hayley Richards

(334) 353-1881 or hayley.richards@archives.alabama.gov

Montgomery, AL (02/15/2024) – On Wednesday, February 21 at 12:00 pm CT, author Sharony Green will present a book talk on her latest work, The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras, at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH). The program will be presented in-person in the ADAH’s Joseph M. Farley Alabama Power Auditorium. It will also livestream through the ADAH’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Admission is free.

Alabama native Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, led a complicated life often marked by tragedy and contradictions. When both she and her writing fell out of favor after the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston struggled to regain an audience for her novels and also to make ends meet. In The Chase and Ruins, Green uncovers an understudied but important period of Hurston's life: her stay in Honduras in the late 1940s in search of a lost Mayan ruin. 

Sharony Green is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and an award-winning author. 

For additional information call (334) 353-9270. A recording of the book talk will be available on the ADAH’s YouTube channel shortly after the presentation.

 

The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the state’s government-records repository, a special-collections library and research facility, and home to the Museum of Alabama, the state history museum. It is located in downtown Montgomery, directly across Washington Avenue from the State Capitol. The ADAH is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. The EBSCO Research Room is closed on Mondays. To learn more, visit www.archives.alabama.gov or call (334) 242-4364. 

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Alabama Department of Archives & History 

624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

www.archives.alabama.gov