Local author David Banks spoke to a local book club at the Van Buren Public Library about being an author and the inspiration for his stories. Banks started his discussion with a poem. He told everyone in attendance that the main reason he writes poetry is so he can make his daughters laugh, cry, or to just annoy them. Banks' first book is "Fort Whiskey." It started as a story told by his grandmother that he had heard his entire life. Bank's Grandfather's Grandfather and his two brothers saw their father hanged...
