Several authors will participate and the general public is invited. There will be events for children, and the Scrapple Creek Runners will provide traditional music. This event will be educational and helpful for anyone considering writing a book.

Having Author’s Day at the Ag Museum is the result of a conversation between Museum Director Di Rafter and author James Hanna, a native of Alabama who was transferred to Dover in 1964 while serving in the Air Force.

When state budget cuts at the Delaware Heritage Commission and the Division of Libraries threatened to cancel this year’s Authors Day, Hanna went to see Rafter and they worked out a plan to save the event, which had been sponsored by the museum several years ago.

After his transfer to Delaware, Hanna spent 20 years as a teacher in the Caesar Rodney School District and then five years as a waterman. He wrote his first book, “Cornbread and Beans for Breakfast,” in 1993. He has written and published 12 books, several of them abut the Delaware Bay.

For more information about Authors Day, call the museum at 302-734-1618.