A Teacher and a Writer Who Made a Difference

I am so excited to finally be getting a handle on reading my book stash. Thanks, Janice, for the idea to encourage one another and to discuss some really good books. These two will be easy to read simultaneously. Before I start on the list, I will finish Charcoal and Chalk. Ms. Burlingame's great-grandfather, John Ogilvie, a Scottish immigrant, was determined to offer school to the freedmen in Texas. Her first book is based on letters and documents that she inherited. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Dillard 's award winning book, is described as "a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing."