the first official public poetry reading for the second year of this project came together as a small get-together at the kutztown community library. betty umberger served as the main guest and reflected on more recently stirred memories of her shoe factory days in kutztown. lilly jay hetrick-ludy contributed with photography as well as reading one of her own poems as well as several new poems from this project in her own eight-year-old voice.
after the reading, lilly jay and i ventured to firefly bookstore, which brimmed with shoppers because it's such a neat local place but also in gratitude of the best kept secrets tour in berks county. and simply put, we love books. just about as equally, we love bookstores.
books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ― charles william eliot
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