Linda Scott DeRosier

Linda Scott DeRosier appearance schedule 2003-2004

July 25-30, 2004 – Hindman, Kentucky
27th Annual Appalachian Writers Workshop
Forks of Troublesome Creek
Hindman, Kentucky 41822
http://www.hindmansettlement.org/default.asp?pg=photoalbum

May 1, 2004 – Huntington, West Virginia
[Presentation and signing times and places TBA]
Convention Center
Huntington, WV 25705
http://www.ohioriverbooks.org

April 17, 2004 – Bowling Green, Kentucky
[Presentation and signing times and places TBA]
Southern Kentucky Book Fest
Sloan Convention Center
Bowling Green, KY 42101
http://www.sokybookfest.org

March 8, 2004 – Morehead, Kentucky
[Reception 5:30-6:30]
Kentucky Folk Art Center
["Looking toward Home: A Creeker Sings of Life and Grace" 7:00-8:00]
Duncan Recital Hall, Baird Music Building, Morehead State University
http://www.moreheadstate.edu/news/02252004-01.html


Dec. 20 -- Van Lear, Kentucky
[A Homecoming Christmas Celebration of Life and Grace Signing 1:00 p.m.]
Words 'n Stuff Books
1246 Route #302
606-789-3592

Dec. 20 -- Paintsville, Kentucky
[A Christmas Gathering of Authors Event/Reading
with Johnson County Authors: Clyde Roy Pack, Johns Sparks, Ken Slone, Brian Auxier, June Rice, and Bob Marsh - 10:00-12:00 Noon]
Johnson County Library

Nov. 16 -- Lexington, Kentucky
[A Kentucky Christmas Event/Signing
with George Ella Lyon and others 4:00 p.m.]
JosephBeth Bookstore
http://www.josephbeth.com/

Nov. 15 -- Lexington, Kentucky
[Reading and Signing Songs of Life and Grace 2:00-4:00 p.m.]
JosephBeth Bookstore
http://www.josephbeth.com/

Nov. 14 - Lexington, KY
The Afternoon Show 12:00 noon
WKYT TV Lexington, KY

Nov. 14 -- Lexington, Kentucky
The Sayre School
[8:00 a.m.]

Nov. 8 -- Frankfort, Kentucky
Kentucky Book Fair Convention Center,
[Signing Songs of Life and Grace & Creeker: A Woman's Journey 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.]
Convention Center
http://www.kdla.net/kybookfair.htm

Nov. 7 -- Georgetown, Kentucky
Bohannon's Books With A Past
[Reading/Signing Songs of Life and Grace 4:00pm]
152 East Main Street 40324

Nov. 7 -- Georgetown, Kentucky
Scott County High School
[2:00pm]

Oct. 23 -– Bismarck, ND
University of Mary
Leadership Week
[1:00 p.m.]
Freshman Seminar
ALU Seminar Room

Oct. 15 – Lexington, Kentucky
Black Swan Books, Lexington
[Reading/Signing Songs of Life and Grace 7:00pm]
505 E. Maxwell St. 40502
FAX 606-252-7255

Oct. 15 – Lexington, Kentucky
University of Kentucky
[4:00-5:30 p.m.]
Freshman Seminar
Worsham Theatre, Student Center

Oct. 14 – Portsmouth, Ohio
Shawnee State University
Memories of an Appalachia Past: Writing in Response to Place [7:00 p.m.]
Shawnee State Distinguished Lecture Series
940 Second Street
Portsmouth, OH 45662
Phone: 740.351.3461

Oct. 14 – Portsmouth, Ohio
"Getting into Our Zone: Women in the Higher Education Workplace" [12:00 Noon]
Shawnee State University Women's Forum Luncheon
940 Second Street
Portsmouth, OH 45662
Phone: 740.351.3461

Oct. 13 – Morehead, Kentucky
[Reading/Signing Songs of Life and Grace 12-1pm]
Coffee Tree Books
240 Morehead Plaza, 40351-1591
606-784-8364/606-784-8364 (f)

Oct. 11 – Nashville, Tennessee
Southern Festival of Books
[Reading/Signing Songs of Life and Grace 10-11am]
Legislative Plaza, Room # 29
http://tn-humanities.orgsfbmain.htm

Sept. 21 – Brunswick, Georgia
[Reading and Signing Songs of Life and Grace 1:30-3:00 p.m.]
Three Rivers Regional Library
Brunswick, GA

Sept. 20 – Jekyll Island, Georgia
Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA) Trade Show and Convention
[A Moveable Feast 7-10 p.m.]

Sept. 7 – Billings, Montana
Barnes and Noble
[Reading and Signing Songs of Life and Grace 2:00-4:00 p.m.]

Sept. 2 - Lexington, KY
"Curtains at Eight" with Nick Lawrence 8:00 p.m. WUKY FM Lexington, KY

July 11-13 – Billings, Montana
High Plains Book Fest
7/12/03 –"Telling Your Own Story" – Panel with Judy Blunt and Virginia Tranel
[Signing Songs and Creeker 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.]
Yellowstone Art Museum
401 North 27th St
Billings, MT 59101
http://www.downtownbillings.com/PARTNERSHIP/bcpartners/bookfest1.htm

The picture on the cover of Songs was taken around 1910, and from the collection of Uncle Asberry Preston’s girl, Eula Lee Preston Perry Preston(1907-2002). She’s the little girl in the pink dress standing directly in front of my Pop Pop on the upstairs porch. The picture itself is of the Life Preston Homeplace on some after-church Sunday afternoon with a gaggle of kids and grandkids gathered for dinner. That’s Great Grandpa Life standing off to the left side—wife Elizabeth sitting in the window [holding her pipe, we think]. That house is proof that those Prestons were carpenters from way back--the first Preston-built house on Two-Mile, I think. The house was located between Two-Mile and Offutt
above the mill dam on Greasy Creek where Life plied his trade grinding whatever needed to be ground. To his death, whenever one of us had a job to do my daddy would advise us “now, get in there and grind.” Thirty-some years ago, when Aunt Eula got the picture reproduced, framed, and hung in her parlor, Daddy looked at it for the first time, shook his head and said, “Now you think about that old sumbitch raisin’ all them kids down there on nuthin’” That was Daddy. That was his family and he was always proud to be a Preston. lsd 9/1/03

The cover of Creeker has long been my favorite picture of my family--the Lifie Jay Prestons of Two-Mile--and all four of us are there, too. That's Daddy and Momma [pregnant with Sister] and and me, on our porch in Fall 1946 and I believe the picture captures much about the way we were. Daddy had just finished building those steps he was sitting on and he'd sat down to have himself a cigarette. Momma was ready to hang out her wash--those are clothespins in her hand and you can see the end of the clothesline too. Uncle Ernie, whose camera chronicled our lives had called me over from playing in the yard and snapped that picture.
If Momma's washing, it must be Monday. If Daddy's home on Monday, he must be laid off from the mines. Yet there we were, smiling. I knew Momma would take care of me. Momma knew Daddy would take care of us. In fact, all three of us knew Daddy could take care of everything so we had no reason to be anything but optimistic. Such was the story of our lives. lsd 9/1/03