 YOU ARE INVITED TO A SPECIAL BOOK SIGNING EVENT! Billy Cannon: A Long, Long Run Book Signing Thursday, September 10, 2015 | 4:00 p.m. Special Guests- Billy Cannon and Charles deGravelles Episcopal Visual and Performing Arts Center 3200 Woodland Ridge Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70816 Books will be available for puchase at this event. Image: LSU Press  Faculty member, Deacon Charles deGravelles is celebrating the release of his new book, a biography of LSU football legend Billy Cannon, from LSU Press. On September 10, Episcopal family and friends are invited to attend a book signing for Deacon deGravelles, affectionatly known in lower school as "Chaplain Charlie". Special guest Billy Cannon will be present and books will be available for purchase.
Congratulations Charlie! CLICK HERE: Read George Morris' article in the September 1 edition of the Baton Rouge “For more than half a century since the glory days of Billy Cannon, LSU football fans have gotten only pieces of his story. This book provides a detailed account of a celebrated athlete. It also offers something much bigger – the journey of a proud but wounded man who took a remarkable path and eventually ended up exactly where he wanted to be.” —Jeffrey Marx, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Walking With Tigers
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O.C. Smith
9/1/2015 07:46:09 am
1961 Istrouma grad. I was in LSU stadium that October night. Bought season tickets for a total of $3.50 in the end zone.(7games). Seats were for south end zone, as it turned out a perfect seat. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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