Former MTSU football coach Boots Donnelly to appear at book festival, sign memoir

Former longtime Middle Tennessee State football coach and athletic director Boots Donnelly , the subject of the book " Boots Donnelly: How He'll Be Remembered ," will attend the Southern Festival of Books presented by Vanderbilt University, Oct. 17-18 at Bicentennial Mall. Donnelly's daughter, Bunny, who is the author, will be there. Both will sign copies of the memoir, which was published in August, during the Middle Tennessee Authors Circle, a collective of area authors, at their bookselling booth near the Tennessee State Museum . Festival hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 17, and 10 a.m.