Book signing now and then
Grove Hill native Mary Chapman Mathews was in Grove Hill Monday signing her recently reprinted book, “A Mansion’s Memories,” a history of the University of Alabama President’s Mansion where she lived in the 1970s when her husband, Dr. David Mathews, was president. The signing was held at the Clarke County Museum (above) where she is seen talking with Gay DeWitt of Jackson. Photographer Chip Cooper whose color photographs appear in the book is in the center. The book was first printed in 1980 and Mathews had a book signing that year at her parents’ business, Chapman’s Drugs, on Grove Hill’s Main Street. She is shown then with her mother and father, the late Jansen and Willie Lee Chapman (right photo). The picture was in The Democrat’s files and was given to Mathews Monday. She said she did not have a copy and was delighted to get it and remarked that it was just like her parents being at this book signing.
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