An Athens author’s book, “The Gnome Lexicon,” combines folklore from every continent into a comprehensive, whimsical anthology of tales and trivia.

She will be signing copies of the book and giving presentations later this week in Athens (details at the end of this article).

Marcia Lewandowski’s interest in gnome lore was sparked, she recalled, on her grandparents’ farm in North Dakota as her grandmother would tell stories about the cantankerous gnomes that lived in the Big Slough — a marshy area filled with pussy willow, cattails, gnats and deep pools. The warnings, not surprisingly, only made Lewandowski more curious to visit the little men.

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