The Big Squeal Book Signing

The Friends of the Charleston Carnegie Public Library have invited "The Big Squeal" by Liberty the Pig to participate in the first Library Art Fair.
The event will be from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 9 at the library to coincide with the Christmas shopping season.

Representing Liberty will be "As Told To Author" Carol Alexander. Also participating will be Kevin Corley, author of "Sixteen Tons." Kevin, now of Springfield, IL is a former grade school principal in Taylorville.

Everyone is invited to meet Carol and Kevin in Charleston, IL. Both books recount TRUE events in heartland history. For Christmas stockings and nostalgia lovers, gift-boxed beverage mugs and post cards imprinted with a map of Abe Lincoln's Taylorville will be available for purchase.

Hope to see you there!

The Big Squeal featured at Assumptionfest

Abe ‘booked’ for Assumption Festival

Abraham Lincoln’s sense of fun will add to the merriment at the Assumption Festival, scheduled for June 26, 27 and 28,

In the 1840s, noisy pigs wallowing under the Christian County courthouse floor were so loud that an amused Lincoln asked the judge for a “writ of quietus” for them.

That witty request has caused ripples of smiles ever since. The episode anchors the newly released second edition of “The Big Squeal,” a true story of the county’s “pigstory” written in the voice of a real life pig named “Liberty.

“As told to author” Carol Alexander of Taylorville will join “Sixteen Tons” writer Kevin Corley of Springfield at a special literary affair set for 2 p.m. Saturday, June 27 during Assumption’s annual festival. They will welcome visitors in front of the Assumption Historical Building.

Mingling with book lovers, the authors will display, inscribe and sell their books rooted in area history.

In honor of the county’s 175^th birthday this year, each copy of “The Big Squeal” is adorned by a gold medallion inscribed, “Collector’s Edition … 1839-2014.” The edition comes in soft and hard covers. 

Set in the often over-looked heartland of America, “The Big Squeal” is the memoir of a formerly starving, orphan piglet that discovered the Abe vs. courthouse pigs story while trotting along part of the old Eighth Judicial Circuit, known as Lincoln’s muddy road to the presidency.

Mini-stories introduce readers of all ages to Mr. Lincoln and his vital role in American history and to the circuit itself. Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin of “Lincoln” the movie fame praised the book as “A rare glimpse into Abraham Lincoln’s lighter side…”

Colorful original illustrations portray real people of all ages and diversity, pioneering and current courthouses and other landmarks. Among the featured caricatures is Christian County Board Chairman Paul Schmitz of Pana.

A folk art map created by Taylorville High School students Camille Beyers and Mathen Campbell opens the book. It also adorns coffee/chocolate/juice mugs and postcards, which commemorate the county’s 175^th anniversary.

Both “The Big Squeal” and “Sixteen Tons” are available on amazon.com. A saga of coal mining history and union wars, “Sixteen Tons” may be purchased at Dana’s Book Exchange on the Taylorville Square. “The Big Squeal” is sold at Cottage Rose Gift Shoppe and PS Printing on the square. 

The book is also available at OTP's website at www.ShopOTPbooks.com

 

PIGS-IN-A-BLANKET CONTEST!

CAROL ALEXANDER and MISS LIBERTY, authors of “The Big Squeal” are calling all cooks!

If you have a favorite "Pigs-in-the-blanket" recipe, please submit it to MISS LIBERTY’s facebook page. (click the link below)

MISS LIBERTY and friends will hold a taste test. Reviews will be reported and a prize will be awarded!

"The Big Squeal," is soon to be published in a Second Edition with a special bonus package on Abraham Lincoln's Eighth Judicial Circuit. This is believed to be the first ever kid-friendly look at the circuit, which launched Lincoln's presidency!

"Like" Miss Liberty's Facebook page at this link: www.facebook.com/libertypig

JOIN MISS LIBERTY'S LEGION!

You're invited to join Liberty's Legion!

Liberty, the only live pig on Amazon.com's roster of authors, invites fans to join the newly-launched "Liberty's Legion."

In late November, 2013, the formerly homeless pot-bellied pig became a published author when "The Big Squeal" was released by Oak Tree Press.

Already Liberty's TRUE inspiring story of hope in America's struggling heartland is being read in all 50 states, England, Kuwait, Canada, Mexico and other locales.

Dedicated to "saving" the often overlooked heartland, Liberty is taking her crusade nationally and globally, inviting everyone to join "Liberty's Legion."

To join, contact Oak Tree Press (otpoffice@aol.com). Membership is free, with recruits receiving a lapel pin and personal message from Liberty. Liberty hopes her new friends will wear the lapel pin on their vacations and become ambassadors for America's vanishing heartland and its warm-hearted people.

Residents of tiny Taylorville, IL took orphan Liberty under their wing when she trotted all over the hamlet as a starving piglet. Endowed with spunk, true grit and intelligence, Liberty overcame many obstacles, found a haven in the biggest yard in town and reigns as the town Ambassador.

Liberty invites one and all to Taylorville, site of the world's only statue of Abraham Lincoln and a pig. Porkers are a "pig deal" here because in the 1840s pigs living under the courthouse were so loud, Abe requested a "writ of quietus" for them.

Magical powers ignite when the bronze nose of the statue's pig is rubbed for good luck. Liberty's own snout-to-snout encounter is credited with a reversal of fortune culminating in her memoir on Amazon.com.

Liberty is also available for interviews!! Please contact otpoffice@aol.com.

The newest members of "Liberty's Legion" enjoyed a "play date" recently with the literary Liberty, author of "The Big Squeal," a true story of hope in America's heartland.

Pictured pointing to "Liberty's Legion" lapel pins are, from left, retired Taylorville, IL., reading teacher Gail Doyle and grandchildren Lakin, Tiana and Kiah Derrick of Union City, Tenn.

Liberty thanked her visitors by demonstrating her favorite trick -- rising on her hind legs and pushing her "pigloo" around the yard!

The End!

MISS LIBERTY and THE BIG SQUEAL

Hello everybody!
Miss Liberty has been so busy!
My book THE BIG SQUEAL is getting a lot of attention.
It makes me squeal with delight!
Here is a photo from SJR and a story that they printed on us:


http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1084476557/The-Big-Squeal-an-autobiography-of-

It is a great story and tells all about me and how I found Mrs. Carol Alexander. It also tells of Abraham Lincoln and how you should rub the nose on my statue up on the square.

I hope you will take a moment to read it.
Everyone take care and Miss Liberty will check in with you soon!

Miss Liberty Has A Play Date!

I can't wait for Saturday!

My friend Jacob Niewinski, whose Grandpa gave him "The Big Squeal by Liberty the Pig" for Christmas, is coming over Saturday for a play date.

He promises to bring me a big juicy apple as a present so I will do my favorite trick: standing on my hind legs and pushing my dog igloo around the yard...it's like a circus act, I have been told. I slept in the igloo as a piglet, before my condo was built.

It is wet and sloppy out now so my "As Told To Author Carol Alexander" is spreading white pieces of paper all around the yard in the hope of getting my hoof print. She wants to get a rubber stamp so I can sign my own books!

I have a question for all of you: Do you know any other pigs who have written their own memoir?

5 Squeals to all of you,
Liberty the Pig