From: Mason, John <JMason>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:55:37 -0400

And then it started to "rain"! (The sprinkler system in the hotel started sprinkling!). We were all sitting there in that forest on that dark rainy night, spellbound....and getting soaked!

John Mason, Director of Library and Educational Marketing, Scholastic Inc., Trade Book Group 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012999 Phone (212) 389770 Fax (212) 389063 Email: jmason at scholastic.com


 Message----From: Boagjohns at aol.com [mailto:Boagjohns at aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 1:50 PM To: ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Virginia Hamilton


Hello

There are so many remembrances:

When The People Could Fly came into my home, my husband. who usually reads ONLY history and biography - read the book from cover to cover - and then he

took that wonderful poster, had it framed and hung in his Judge's chambers until he retired The power of a book and its author.

For those who were not there when Virginia received the Coretta Scott King Award for The People Could Fly - as she was reading her acceptance speech in

GRAND New York Hotel - all the lights went out!! Stalwart trooper that she is, someone handed her a FLASHLIGHT and she continued to read - and appropriately she was at the part that said, " And in the dark of night the slaves would seek away from their cabins to plot their next escape plans......"

Henrietta M. Smith

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