Local author Gary Corsair will speak at various Lake County libraries.
 

This is a senior reporter at The Villages Daily Sun who writes about social injustices. He also posts on TOTV once in a while. I believe that this is in February 2009 that Mr. Corsair will be presenting as that is the 60th anniversary of this series of cases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groveland_Four

He is covering his book A Legal Lynching: The Sad Saga of the Groveland Four.

http://www.lakeline.lib.fl.us/author...t.aspx#govfour

Tal, is he the reporter who wrote the outstanding series last week on the gas weapons testing?

You are right, uujudy.
 

Yes, that's him. http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/a...ews/news02.txt

The Lake County Library System has a few copies of Gary Corsair's book.
 

I checked on the online catalogs for Gary Corsair's book and it looks like Lake County's Library system has a couple copies of A Legal Lynching: The Sad Saga of the Groveland Four.

Did not see a copy on the Sumter County Library public access catalog though but the Marion County Library does have one copy in its system.

I've had some very good e-mail discussions with him over the past two years. Very friendly.

After reading the Wiki account I'm surprised that this was never made into a movie.

Gary Corsair is a very friendly man.
 

I too have had some dealings with Gary Corsair over e-mails but also in person as he did a small article in The Villages Daily Sun about my work on getting the FL Victim Services Directory into public libraries web-sites as a link here in the Villages' area ( Marion-Lake-Sumter Counties). The article was in the Villages Daily Sun Lynnhaven neighborhood section back around Memorial Day of 2007.

I have been working on this specific link in FL libraries since 2000 in every county in FL with a lot of successes but also a lot of failures. Does not help that so many libraries seem to be changing their web-sites quite frequently.

You can see that Lake County Library still has this link--
http://www.lakeline.lib.fl.us/intern...oryCategory=24

I still the last I looked have had not had any luck getting this link in at Sumter County http://sumtercountyfl.gov/libraries/links.htm nor at Marion County's Library systems. http://marioncountyfl.org/Library/Adults.aspx Nor even have I got it in over at the Orange County Library System. http://www.ocls.info/Virtual/NetLink...esID=12&bhcp=1

I am hoping that with the Obama Administration a new attitude towards access to legal information for citizens will occur that will filter down from the Federal government to the local level.

Anyway, Mr. Gary Corsair seemed interested in what I had been doing for victims of crimes and Lake County Library System got a link a few days after a requested one to the FL Victim Services Directory. http://myfloridalegal.com/directory At least, Lake County got one quickly in 2006 or 2007. I had little luck with them back in 2000 and 2001.

I also think that this legal saga of the Groveland Four would make a educational movie.

Back in 2000 plus, I had even bugged librarians in the Boston, MA area about what they had for victims of crimes in their various libraries. Seem to remember that Boston's public libraries had quite a bit of useful materials. Have not recently checked though if their libraries have a link to whatever resource like the FL Victim Services Directory Massachusetts might have. http://www.mass.gov/mova/page28.html