READFEST 2006, BY JACK SAUNDERS, VERNACULAR WRITER. January 18 - February 28. Projected. I decide to write a book for my 50th [high school] class reunion, next year. As research, I plan to drive down to the Everglades Bluegrass Festival, hosted by the South Florida Bluegrass Association, and held at Ives Estates Optimist Club, off Ives Dairy Road, in what used to be Ojus, Florida. The book is mainly prose vignettes about how I went from loving bebop to loving dawg music, and how I became a vernacular writer instead of becoming a mainstream writer. An explanation to my classmates. An accounting of my stewardship. There are also some poems, essays, letters to friends. I attend booksALIVE 2006! and have a book-signing table, at Gulf Coast Community College. Brenda and I attend a Joe Bell Memorial Pick-in in Andalusia, Alabama. Joe Bell was 66. My age. His kids grew up with our kids. At bluegrass festivals.