By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current
Nationally Recognized author Tim Pletkovich, Geneseo, will be featured at the Toulon Public Library in Toulon at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday for a program entitled “U.S. Presidential Genealogy.” The program is sponsored by the Stark County Genealogical Society.
Ulysses Grant Dietz, a great-great-grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant, will join Pletkovich remotely for the presentation.
Pletkovich currently is writing a book about the subject with several presidential descendants, most of whom are either grandchildren or great-grandchildren of the nation’s commanders-in-chief. His previous works include “Civil War Fathers and Nuns,” “Nazis,” and “Notre Dame.”
The author received the Ella A. Dickey Award for Literature in 2017 for “Civil War Fathers.” Past Dickey Award recipients include former First Lady Laura Bush, former U.S. Senator and Democratic Party presidential candidate, the late George McGovern, and former U.S. Secret Service Agent Paul Landis.
Copies of Pletkovich’s books will be available to purchase after the program Saturday in Toulon.
Pletkovich, the son of John and Shirley Pletkovich, graduated from Geneseo’s JD Darnall High School in 1978.