Behind the Headlines

By Paula Wethington / paula@monroenews.com

Evening News editor Deb Saul dedicated her print column today to “To kill a Mockingbird.” You can find the article on page 3A of today’s print and e-editions of The Monroe Evening News and at www.monroenews.com.

A snippet:

Monroe County readers participating in The Big Read know how important reading was in the Finch household in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The children were read to each night and the father read three newspapers a day. When the children noticed a new boy next door the first thing out of his mouth was his name and the statement: “I can read.” And now I think that reading made the father, Atticus, the man he was.