Program: Grapes of Wrath Meets American Graffiti

Grapes of Wrath Meets American Graffiti

Presented by William Carroll Moore

Please join us to hear Bill Moore’s first-hand accounts of the challenges facing Cleburne County families and individuals during the changing times of the Great Depression through World War II. He will also talk about his family’s migration to California’s Central Valley that brought a different kind of struggle — starting a new life. Bill will share valuable family genealogical discoveries he made along the way in his life journeys.

William “Bill” Carroll Moore was born in Cleburne County, Arkansas, and moved to the Central Valley of California at the age of ten. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in urban planning from Athens Technological Institute in Greece. Now living in Napa, California, he writes fiction and nonfiction, including his recently published memoir, The Houses of Cleburne County: Memoir of a Southern Boyhood.