Paula Tucker’s Kent State memoir a semifinalist

Former BJ State Desk reporter Paula Tucker is a semifinalist for the Florida Writers Association Golden Palm Awards for her book, “Surviving: A Kent State Memoir.” The book will be published by Sunbury Press, based in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

Paula was a witness to the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 when four students were killed and nine were wounded by the Ohio National Guard.

The first Royal Palms were awarded in 2006.

Lawrence Knorr is publisher of the Sunbury Press.

Paula divides her time between her Tallmadge home and The Villages, Florida.