Today she sketched Catherine Way playing her harp at Casa Feliz. Afterwards she took her weekly Park Ave. stroll and made a stop at "The Bookstore". Catchy name for a bookstore, agree? This store has been open perhaps a year. Today she sits in one of the small rooms and strikes up a chat with a couple admiring the finger puppet display. The man in a ribbon decorated navy blue military ball cap was generally of a certain age and so was his wife. That means above 50, but only they know how far above. The wife was picking up the puppets showing her husband , he said no I don't know Pete Seeger. So they needed info, she has to speak and explain Seeger. The wife was really enjoying the cutenss of these puppets of famous folks . She picked up James Joyce and turned a quizzical face asking by her expression, So she explained Joyce and how he gained fame by publishing the most famous banned book..A book perhaps few would ever have read if not for that pre internet viralness phenomena of banning a book. When the woman asked her who Emily Dickenson was , she found herself quoting a few favorite or at least memorable lines....and asking this lady, incredulously, what do you do? I am a realtor. The realtor asked her how do you know these things? As the lady realtor left she turned and said I'm going to take your suggestion and put on a little puppet show, she bought 4 puppets. She really liked Twain, the puppet's bushy white hair could have made him mistaken for Einstein. She said she knew who Mark Twain was but balked at the challenge of naming 3 books he wrote. Her husband knew Twain had written a biography about Ulysses S. Grant . She picked up Thomas Jefferson and declared she knew who he was. They were visiting from Houston. She asked for info on the Zora Neale Hurston puppet whose fame inspired a local festival that so happens to be taking place locally in Eatonville, this week.
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