Back to South CarolinaWhew! What a whirlwind three days in North Augusta, Aiken and Orangeburg, South Carolina. First stop was Mossy Creek Elementary where media specialist extraordinare, Liz Knapp and parent volunteer extraordinaire, Charlene Miller planned an author visit in three days!!! (I had met Charlene the prior week at the SCIRA conference) Mossy Creek is a great school with great kids AND super teachers and parents. I had forgotten my power cord to my laptop, and amazingly, Liz had one that was compatible with my computer! She saved the day!  But that’s Liz. You should see her library. It was filled with costumes and props from back during the Civil War. Oh, you can tell the kids have a fun time during library time with Liz. Next stop, Chukker Creek in Aiken, where I did three lively sessions (lots of kids packed in the gymnasium!)   Debbie Sessions had the kids and teachers well prepared for the visit. The teacher who played Mrs. Stein during my Poetry Pary! presentation had the kids howling! She did a terrific (or should I say horrific job!) Next stop was Orangeburg Prep School. Orangeburg is very close to Bamburg which I visited back in November and found a wonderful friend, Harriet Coker, who invited me to stay with her.  I took her out to dinner at the new restuarant in town. Now mind you, Bamburg only had one other restuarant!  At one of the tables sat a family where the boy and girl kept looking over at our table. After dinner they came over to our table and asked for my autograph. They had remembered me from the school visit back in November.  I had signed books for them both, so they already had my autograph, but I signed their napkins anyway! Then another family came in and the father asked if I was the person who dressed up like the pilgrim for the presentation back in November. They remembered too! I felt like a celebrity! On Thursday it was on to Orangeburg Prep School, where Celia Richardson had everything ready to go.  And boy did she have the kids well prepared. I ran out of both How to Drive Your Sister Crazy AND Bus-A-Saurus Bop! It was a wonderful 3 days in South Carolina!
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