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Published on: 12/24/2007
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Last week my long ago library assistant, Pam Wall Shingler, who is now one of the movers and shakers at WMMT, the radio arm of Appalshop, which is located in Whitesburg, KY, called and asked if I would be on her radio program, Appalachian Life, which airs on Tuesday evenings from 4:30 to 6:00.
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Pam and I go back a long way.I don't know if she wants me to rat on her, but in 1959 (Can it be almost a half century ago?) she was President of the Eastern Kentucky Student Librarian's Association, which was an arm of the Eastern Kentucky Librarian's Association, an arm of the KLA and the EKEA. a part of the Kentucky Education Association.The organization Pam was president of only lasted a few years, but when she was chief executive, the Paintsville High School Student Librarians hosted a meeting of EKSLA on a fall Saturday with library assistants from all over Eastern Kentucky as our guests.
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I was a little more nasal than usual, as I still have the remains of a cold, but Pam had edited out the most egregious cold sounds.I thought the interview went well, though I did tend to talk in incomplete sentences.Steve called back and was complimentary."You read very well," he said.I thought later that I read the same way I had read to him ever since he had been born.No wonder he liked it.I told him Pam had promised me a CD of the program soon.I was awed to think that the program could have been heard all over the world (if anybody tuned in) through the magic of cyberspace.He had some questions about his grandmother and grandfather that nobody else had thought to ask.In the story I read, which was based on an incident in the life of my mother and daddy, who, singlehandedly, one Christmas season got the neighbors to donate enough food and clothing to help a widow keep her children instead of their having to go to an orphans' home.This was before the days of welfare.Steve, whose grandfather died six months before he was born, and his grandmother died when he was three, did not know much about them.He was curious as to why she called him, "Mr.Ervin," and he called her "Miss Lurie." "Was it a Victorian thing?"Steve asked.