As the birth rate increased, so did the need for entertainment to keep the kids happy, and few of us had a TV in the mid fifties. Kids were everywhere, even though our typical town's size at first was small. One of my Mom's favourite strategies (probably at the direction of her Library Board, though at that time it was her own pet project too) was to provide our town with a plethora of kid's books. and Mothers everywhere a HAPPY MOTHER'S day tomorrow!!!!īack in 1957, my Mom's village library opened to a steady stream of visitors.

If I had not read 'The Goodreads', interview with *Fredrick Backman*, today ( mail backed up for weeks).I would have missed this recall memory. Families and friends, people in his theater world kids in the Pippi show all came.

there was a huge 'life celebration' in Don's honor. Before he died.( a couple of weeks before). It was the very first person that our daughter knew who died of AIDS. About six months after this show ended - the director ( not musical director), died of AIDS. There is one very sad part of this memory. Great cast - fun show - lots of happiness from everyone. with a monkey - a horse - and two best friends. The opening musical number begins with her skating onto the stage singing a very catchy solo tune - long run-together-rhythmic- sentences singing - while skating - that she is 'Pippi Longstocking', The strongest Little Girl in the World'. Katy had those red funny looking braids in her hair -A red and white striped T-shirt. Tons of production work went into a 'new pre-premier' musical. The play was performed at The Montgomery theater - downtown San Jose. It's filled with lots signatures from cast members. The copy of this book is packed away in a keepsake box. Fredrick brought back an abundance of memories.

While looking at my mother's Day flowers from our 35 year old daughter. Paul and I immediately started thinking about our daughter who played the title role of Pippi Longstocking in the world premiere Bay Area musical when she was 11 years old. When Backman was asked what his favorite books were, he said.'his biggest hero is Astrid Lindgren who wrote 'Pippi Longstocking' and his favorite book of all time 'The Brothers Lionheart'.,( a book I'm now curious to read myself).

I told Paul what I had just read about Fredrick Backman. Paul got the door - brought the flowers to the nightstand next to my bed. Tomorrow is Mother's Day! (sweet daughter) A delivery guy brought a huge vase of flowers from our daughter, Katy. Right when I'm reading the interview on Goodreads from Fredrick Backman about his new-HIT- novel BEARTOWN - my doorbell rings. I'm in bed - again -today with some type of nasty bug - a relapse from last week.a traveling flu bug? cold? allergies? It's now in my chest.

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