The Friends of Winfield Public Library group is pleased to host Kansas native and author Liz Moore for a presentation at their monthly meeting on Monday, May 13th at 7:00pm.
In the year she turned 50, Liz Moore acted on a long-time daydream. She loaded up her car and left home for a year. Her goal was to randomly find a nice town far away, move in, get a job, and live life without a plan and away from all things familiar. After a month or two, it would be time to leave for the next town and a new set of adventures, until she had completed a tour of America. She shares about the experience in her 2008 memoir Making It Home: My Year as a Middle-Aged Runaway.
Before embarking on that adventure, Moore, from Independence, KS, majored in journalism at Kansas State University. She worked for 10 years as a reporter for newspapers in Kansas and Texas before changing careers and working in communications management for national disability organizations. In 2008 Moore moved back to her hometown. At the time she published Making It Home she was the site director at the Little House on the Prairie Museum and later served as executive director of Independence Main Street. After officially retiring in 2016, Moore became a weekly columnist for the Independence Daily Reporter. Her column, “Moore or Less” is an eclectic mix of town news, personal stories, profiles and occasional controversies.
