Jessie Ramey, who writes Yinzercation, and Kipp Dawson, a union activist and teacher in the Pittsburgh public schools, invited me to come to their city. I had my first event there, and it was sensational! I will let Jessie describe it.
Let me add that I especially wanted to meet Kipp, because I learned that she worked as a coal miner for more than a decade. I imagined a burly woman, but she turned out to be tiny, but with a steely determination. The kind that enables a woman who is 5’1″ to carry a 50-pound pack on her back and persist, the kind that will fight for kids today.
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I love this post and the celebration you shared! The passion of the kids in the band — wow. I hope that at every stop on your tour America manages to have kids playing music for you…and for themselves and their community.
I also love this post and hope you can add more as you travel on the book tour.
It helps to know how the presentation affects the very people at the center of your research and your reverence.
Reign of Error is a catalyst for so much good and it empowers the persistence required to fight the fight.
Thank you. Much love and even more energy. May the ghost of Mother Jones and her coal miners walk with you everywhere you go.
So glad to hear that 7 regional colleges sponsored this to help keep the evening free and open to all. So proud of my alma mater, Duquesne U.