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From: leonardsma at aol.com <leonardsma>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:58:06 -0400
Well, I can tell you the very last thing she ever said to me. It was over the phone, a few years after I met her. I had a question about Anne Carroll Moore, a fact I needed to check, and so I called her. At the mention of ACM's name, Usula's voice changed, gaining in intensity. "That Christ-bitten librarian!" she said.
That's a quote.
Leonard S. Marcus
54 Willow Street, #2A
Brooklyn, New York 11201
tel 718 596-1897
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web www.leonardmarcus.com
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From: fran manushkin <franm at nyc.rr.com>
To: Linnea Hendrickson <Lhendr at unm.edu>
Cc: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
Sent: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:39 am
Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] MINDERS OF MAKE-BELIEVE
Leonard,, how about more Ursula stories? I can never get enough. Having worked for her, she looms large in my unconscious. I still dream about her. Of course, anything else about Margaret Wise Brown that hasn't been in print would also be fine to hear about. Fran On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Linnea Hendrickson wrote: Thanks to all of you for the wonderful discussion spurred by "Minders of Make-Believe." My copy is on its way. The following made my morning! > I had interviewed Ursula Nordstrom for my biography of Margaret > Wise Brown. By then she was living in a retirement home in > Connecticut. The plan was for me to take a bus up to a nearby strip > mall and be met by her and a friend. Standing next to Ursula on the > sidewalk was a teenager with a boom box turned up very high. I > stepped down from the bus, locked eyes with the woman I saw must be > Ursula, and took in an earful of the music. The first thin
g she > said to me was: "Want to dance?" Linnea Hendrickson Lhendr at unm.edu _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:58:06 -0400
Well, I can tell you the very last thing she ever said to me. It was over the phone, a few years after I met her. I had a question about Anne Carroll Moore, a fact I needed to check, and so I called her. At the mention of ACM's name, Usula's voice changed, gaining in intensity. "That Christ-bitten librarian!" she said.
That's a quote.
Leonard S. Marcus
54 Willow Street, #2A
Brooklyn, New York 11201
tel 718 596-1897
e-mail leonardsma at aol.com
web www.leonardmarcus.com
-----Original Message-----
From: fran manushkin <franm at nyc.rr.com>
To: Linnea Hendrickson <Lhendr at unm.edu>
Cc: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
Sent: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:39 am
Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] MINDERS OF MAKE-BELIEVE
Leonard,, how about more Ursula stories? I can never get enough. Having worked for her, she looms large in my unconscious. I still dream about her. Of course, anything else about Margaret Wise Brown that hasn't been in print would also be fine to hear about. Fran On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Linnea Hendrickson wrote: Thanks to all of you for the wonderful discussion spurred by "Minders of Make-Believe." My copy is on its way. The following made my morning! > I had interviewed Ursula Nordstrom for my biography of Margaret > Wise Brown. By then she was living in a retirement home in > Connecticut. The plan was for me to take a bus up to a nearby strip > mall and be met by her and a friend. Standing next to Ursula on the > sidewalk was a teenager with a boom box turned up very high. I > stepped down from the bus, locked eyes with the woman I saw must be > Ursula, and took in an earful of the music. The first thin
g she > said to me was: "Want to dance?" Linnea Hendrickson Lhendr at unm.edu _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net
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