Upcoming Events Stay tuned for our next event! An Evening with Tom LewisAuthor, Builder, Philanthropist An Evening with Hampton Sides Hampton Sides is best-known for his gripping non-fiction adventure stories set in war or depicting epic expeditions of discovery and exploration. He is an acclaimed journalist and the author of the bestselling histories Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, In the Kingdom of Ice, and, most recently, On Desperate Ground.