Visiting authors enrich Auburn

Give the Seward House's executive director, Peter Wisbey, and his staff a great deal of credit for bringing in James L. Swanson, who spoke to several hundred on Thursday night at East Middle School about his book, “Man Hunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln's Killers.”

The partnership between the Seward House and Cayuga Community College's Foundation that brought him here can only be deemed a great success.

Wisbey will be the first to tell you that when he invited Swanson to Auburn after helping him by phone to get information and photos for his book, there was no evidence that the book would hit the New York Times bestseller list several weeks in a row since its release in February. Yet, he was smart enough to know that bringing authors to Auburn is something that the local community will eat up.