*January 14, 2012 Meeting*

Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, PhD
"What the Bones Really Tell Us"

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a forensic anthropologist?  Join us for our January meeting with guest speaker Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, PhD, as she reveals the truth about what bones can really tell us.

Dr. Smith received her PhD in anthropology from Indiana University. Her areas of research interest include skeletal analysis and the interaction between health and social status in ancient Greek populations. She has spent a year living in Athens, Greece, researching skeletons from the Late Bronze Age cemetery at the foot of the Acropolis. Her teaching interests include forensic anthropology, human evolution, and human biological variation.

Meetings are held from 10 AM to 12 PM at the Smyrna library. Visitors are welcome to attend. For maps of the location, click here.  (Maps provided by Google Maps.)


2012 Upcoming Meetings

  • 14 January 2012: Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, PhD, "What the Bones Really Tell Us"

Past Meetings

  • 10 December 2011:  Holiday Social

  • 12 November 2011: Writer's Police Academy Report; election of 2012 officers

  • 8 October 2011: Cancelled

  • 10 September 2011: Author Walter Sorrells, "Writing in the Real World."

  • 13 August 2011: Jeff Chirico, Investigative Reporter, CBS Atlanta.

  • 9 July 2011: The July Ice Cream Social has been cancelled.

  • 11 June 2011: Members read and discuss their works.

  • 14 May 2011: Michael Gerhard, Operations Manger, Cobb County Medical Examiner's Office, "Performing Autopsies and What They Reveal."

  • 9 April 2011: Award-Winning Author Debby Giusti, "Building Suspense."

  • 12 March 2011: Author Patricia Sprinkle, "Friday's Daughter." 1PM, Peachtree City Library, Peachtree City, GA.

  • 12 February 2011: "Killer Openings," a discussion of how to craft beginnings to die for.

  • 28-29 January 2011: Murder Goes South, A Festival of Readers and Writers of the Southern Mystery, 28-29 January 2011, presented by the Friends of Smyrna library in conjunction with the Atlanta Chapter of Sisters in Crime.

  • 11 December 2010: Annual Christmas Party/Brunch, Patricia Sprinkle's home

  • 13 November 2010: Election of 2011 Officers and Discussion of Works in Progress

  • 9 October 2010: Dr. Stephen Morse, environmental microbiologist and bioterrorism preparedness expert, CDC, Atlanta.

  • 11 September 2010: Jim and Justine Veatch, winners of the Sisters in Crime "We Love Libraries" lottery.

  • 12 June 2010: Annual Ice Cream Social.

  • 8 May 2010: Mitchell Graham, author of Majestic Descending, Dead Docket, and The Fifth Ring trilogy.

  • 10 Arpil 2010: Putnam County Sheriff Howard R. Sills, "Law Enforcement Investigations and Jurisdictions."

  • 13 March 2010: Bobbie Christmas, author and freelance editor, "What to Expect and What Not to Expect from an Editor."

  • 13 February 2010: Author Philip Depoy, joint session with Georgia Writers Association. Reading at 12:00PM, workshop at 12:30PM, Leadershop Room on 2nd Floor of Student Center at KSU.
    SinC Members: $5.00 General Adm: $20.00.

  • 9 January 2010: Bobbie Christmas, author and freelance editor, "What to Expect and What Not to Expect from an Editor."


January 14, 2011

Susan Kirkpatrick
Smith, PhD

Forensic Anthropologist

What the Bones
Really Tell Us



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Maggie Bennett finds her army officer sister dead. She’s devastated by the loss, but when U.S. Army criminal investigations agent Nate Patterson begins asking questions about the suspicious death, Maggie can’t tell him everything she knows. Except that her sister was murdered—for a secret Maggie can’t share. Then she walks into the killer’s trap and has to trust Nate with the truth…and her heart.

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A story of hope, love, and determination to survive.

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