250 Great American Things Signing

July 23, 2026 @ 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Overview

In the spirit of our founding father, Mark Twain, County Highway is honoring the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by gathering a raft of some of America’s finest essayists, humorists, fiction writers, and other prose stylists and wise-asses to remind us of what makes America great. The answers, some deadpan, and others only mildly tongue-in-cheek, include lawn-mowers, gas grills, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, cowboy boots, catcher’s mitts, light-bulbs, hairspray, chicken-wire fencing, and 242 other entries in what is sure to be the most amusing and least-tiresome tribute to a nation that occasionally commemorates the past by staging gaudy parades or engaging in bouts of solemn introspection but thrives most of the time on forgetting its history and making new stuff.

Schedule to appear:

Lee Clay Johnson, the award-winning author of our first Panamerica title, Bloodline, as well as a contributor to 250 Great American Things.

Gary Fisketjon, fiction editor of County Highway and a contributor to 250 Great American Things.

David Samuels, editor-in-chief of County Highway and co-editor of 250 Great American Things.

Ryan Baesemann, managing editor of County Highway and co-editor of 250 Great American Things.

250 Great American Things Event

Lemuria Books

4465 I-55 North
Jackson, MS 39206

  • Time: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Admission: Free

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