Join in a ‘Meet and Greet” with Ann Bedsole at the White Smith Memorial Library Thursday, March 23, 1 p.m., as Jackson welcomes Mrs. Ann Bedsole, an author, politician, business woman, community activist and philanthropist. Ann Bedsole, the first female state Republican Senator in Alabama and the first female elected to the House of Representatives, will be signing copies of her newly released autobiography, “Leave Your Footprint.” Mrs. Bedsole moved to Jackson when she was a young child and her father owned and operated White Smith Land Company, a sawmill. White Smith Memorial Library is named in honor of her...

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