The Mary Barnett Library in Guthrie Center has a special talk later this week that local residents are invited to attend.

Thursday evening at 6:30, the library is bringing in historian Gary Pool to discuss Iowa’s underground railroad back in the 1850s.  More specifically, Pool will talk about his latest novel, titled “The Captain and the Candle,” which is a fictionalized account of the underground railroad and a small religious abolitionist town that becomes involved in the infamous Kansas Border Wars.

Pool is a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he served with the Army’s bomb disposal unit.  His experiences in Vietnam provided much of the basis for his first book, Xuc May.  Pool describes the book as his recollection of actual events as they occurred during his time with the Army in South Vietnam.

Thursday’s talk is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact the library at 641-747-8110.