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Joy Bale Boone Symposium
Friday, March 4 — University of Kentucky — A reading by Davis McCombs, Wendell Berry, and Barbara Kingsolver will be held in Memorial Hall on UK’s campus Friday at 7:30 p.m. The reading, which is free and open to the public, is part of a two-day symposium titled “Growing Kentucky.” The event is the latest in a series of symposiums that each year examine such subjects as food and arts, land use, food marketing, and environmental journalism. The symposium honors the life and work of Joy Bale Boone, Kentucky’s poet laureate from 1997-99, who knew well the state’s rural culture.
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1. Mark Griffin replies at 25th December 2006, 9:45 pm :
I’m hoping you may help me. Joy Bale Boone once told me she visited my hometown of Russellville to attend a meeting of a women’s literary group. She wrote a short story about the meeting but she never told me the title. Do you happen to know the title of this story?
Mark
2. sherry replies at 26th December 2006, 6:05 am :
I am shamefully ignorant about Joy Bale Boone’s work, Mark, and can’t answer your question but maybe one of my readers can.
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