Books was booksALIVE and Gulf Coast Writers Conference
at the junior college, later open mic nights and poetry readings at
the Gallery Above, plus a booth at Oktoberfest selling pamphlets
and making a spectacle of myself. I met Timothy Weeks, who wrote
children's books about a mullet from Cook Bayou. When he went on
a book tour he stayed in state parks, camping with his mother, who
illustrated the books. We had a table together outside Page & Palette
bookstore at an arts and crafts festival in Fairhope, Alabama.
I also met Janis Owens at the junior college. She wrote
The Cracker Kitchen. Mike Lister was at the book fair.
He had a mystery series featuring a prison chaplain.
He had worked with Brenda at Gulf CI. He lived
in Wewa. He published the Gulf County Breeze
and founded Pottersville Press, who published
Adventures in the Underground. So there was
as much book activity for me in Panama City
as there'd been in Delray Beach, or Atlanta.
I wrote THE CRACKER TABLE.
An actual table, in Granny Brown's kitchen.
I wrote THE CRACKER CHAIR.
Like the Bowditch Chair at Harvard
in American Archaeology held by Gordon Willey.