Author Meet and Greet. Saturday, April 20, 10:00 am Sponsored by Dadeville Public Library. Kahty McCoy presents reading of “Monroeville: The Search for Harper Lee's Maycomb.”
Kathy McCoy is a native of Louisville, KY. She served in the US Army at the US Embassy in West Berlin, Germany.
After military service she attended Northern Arizona University where she holds a BFA in Sculpture. She did her post
graduate work at University of Tennessee and Georgia State University in Applied Anthropology. In 1990 she was hired
as the museum director for the old courthouse museum and begin her journey into “Mockingbird Country”.
She served for 15 years as Executive Director of the Museum . Under her direction and with a amazing staff, the
Museum developed Rikards Mill, a working grist mill, the Alabama River Museum at Claiborne Lock-and Dam , the
Hybart House and completed the restoration and exhibits that you see today at the Old Courthouse. Kathy also founded
and toured nationally and internationally the dramatic production of “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The play is still presented
today at the Monroe County Museum in Monroeville.
During her time at the museum, she became a published author, her first book Monroeville: Literary Capital of Alabama
was published in 1999 by Arcadia publishing and is still in print today. Her second book, “In Search of Maycomb” is also
still available through Arcadia Publishing. “Crossroads: The Early History of Monroe County” was published by Southwest
Publishing in 2006. She left Monroe county in 2006, but was still working on a book that she had been interviewing and
researching for eight years. Published in 2010, “Riley‘s Crossing”, the story of a Civil War captain who went against all
barriers both personally and publicly and succeeded beyond all expectations, has just been recently reprinted.
Kathy left Monroeville in 2006 to become the Executive Director of the Pell City Performing Arts Centre in Pell City,
Alabama. She retired in 2016 and returned to Monroeville to direct TKAM in 2019. In 2021 she directed “ Hiram: the
story of a young Hank Williams” at the Museum.
In 2023 a book was authored by Dr. John Williams of Auburn which chronicles Kathy’s time in Monroeville. Entitled
“Monroeville and the Stage Production of TKAM”, it is published by The History Press.
Kathy lives in Atmore and is married to Charles
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