Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 2 PM, Dr. Freda Daily will give a free to the public program entitled "Crime and Punishment in the West End," about law enforcement in the West End of Colbert County during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a discussion of certain interesting cases. Dr. Freda S. Daily was born Freda Smith, a daughter of a fifth generation West Colbert family. She is a daughter of Cletus (Jack) and Flo Smith. She graduated as co-valedictorian of the Cherokee Vocational School in 1958 as Freda Daily, having maried Marvin Daily her junior year. In 1968 She enrolled at Florence State University to pursue her dream of becoming an elementary teacher. In 1976 she earned her masters degree, and in 1978 her education specialist degree, and in 1992 recieved her doctorate from the University of Alabama. She taught elementary school for twenty-two years and worked for ten years in several capacities in the Colbert County Schools Central Office, retiring as Superintendent of Education in 2003. Her interest in Colbert County history goes back to a term paper she was assigned to write as an undergraduate, "My Hometwon." Her love of West Colbert County history grew over the years and resulted in her first book A Heritage to Treasure: A History of the Old Chickasaw Nation of West Colbert County, published in 2004.