British documentary filmmaker, author to speak Oct. 19 at Kimball Public Library

British documentary film maker and author Tim Slessor will be in Kimball on Sunday, Oct. 19, to speak at the Kimball Public Library as part of Chadron State College's pilot Practitioner-in-Residence program. Doors will open to the public at 2 p.m. Tickets are not required.

After military service in Britain's Green Berets, Tim Slessor went "up" to Cambridge. Three years later, on graduation, he set out with five friends to drive overland from the English Channel to Singapore - in two work-provided Land Rovers. It was a journey which had been attempted several times before, but without succe...