Now on sale at the Ava Gardner Museum is a new book about Ava Gardner's childhood and her Smithfield family ties – entitled Grabtown Girl: Ava Gardner's North Carolina Childhood and Her Enduring Ties to Home. The author is former Smithfield Herald columnist Doris Cannon, pictured below with WMPM Radio's Carl Lamm during a book signing at the museum. To order a copy of Grabtown Girl, please send $15 + $3 for shipping & handling to: Ava Gardner Museum Grabtown Girl Book Order 325 E. Market St. Smithfield, NC 27577 For more information on other items available in the Museum's Gift Shop, call us at 919-934-5830.

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