From: Lyn Jones <ljones>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:45:18 -0500

I too would like a copy of that speech. I teach her folktales every year in my 8th grade English classroom. My students love the rhythm, figurative language, and hope all written so beautifully by Hamilton. I live in Indiana, but travel to Yellow Springs at least twice a year to hike. I ran into Hamilton five years ago in a restaurant. I was like a groupie in front of a rock star. She spoke to me for some time- a very generous and wonderful person. She will be missed. Lyn Jones Fishers Junior High A human mind once stretched to a new idea, never returns to its former dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendall Holmes


                -----Original Message---- From: Jeffrey Canton
[mailto:jeffrey_canton at yahoo.com]
                Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 8:17 PM
                To: Eliza T. Dresang; Kathleen Horning; Subscribers of ccbc-net
                Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Virginia Hamilton

                Thanks for your moving post, Eliza. I am wondering, as
                I am sure other CCBCers are as well, if it possible to
                get a copy of this speech. It sounds wonderful -- but
                then that was Virginia Hamilton, wasn't it? I have
                been reading her folktales among them the stunning The
                Girl Who Spun Gold and The People Who Could Fly and
                marvel at the nuances of her phrasing, the marvelous
                way she used language and the dignity that was part
                and parcel of everything that she wrote. Her
                contribution to folklore is immense -- as immense, of
                course, as her contributions to celebrating the life
                of African Americans, young adult ficiton and fiction
                for younger readers too. It is a blessing that we have
                her books as a rich and vibrant legacy that will
                gladly keep her alive with us despite her death.

                Jeffrey Canton
                Toronto

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