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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

  The Scottville Senior Center has a regular event (I think monthly) for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. This month they invited several local authors to come and give short presentations about books/writing/being creative.

Left to right are "moi," Brad Reed and Rachel Gaudetter, and Debbie Nellis. I have the Dubois Files mystery series for young readers, Brad and Rachel have a picture book featuring their photography called They Call Me Eagle Eyes, and Debbie has four picture books featuring a turtle named Max who tells people about things on Mackinac Istand. It was a nice selection.
authors and books


The Center was disappointed because they had a number of people sign up who didn't show up. That also means they have a lot of food left over from the dinner to deal with. So it was a smallish group, but they were enthusiastic. Here Bill Kerans, the director of the center, is taking a picture of Brad and Rachel presenting their book.
people giving a program


This is Debbie and her husband, with her books.
author with books


The Senior Center gave each child a notebook, markers, and a pencil to help inspire them to be creative. Also, each family/kid got to choose one book from each author.

Afterwards, Debbie and I talked a while about the self-publishing business.

Other than that, I managed to walk about 1.5 miles before the dinner, and worked on various projects.

See Senior Center Program

4 comments:

Ann said...

Sounds like a nice event. Too bad they had people not show up.

Sharkbytes said...

Ann- Yes, they were very disappointed

The Oceanside Animals said...

Java Bean: "Ayyy, that is a shame, people saying they're going to come and then not coming! But if they need somebody to take any extra food off their hands, just let us know ..."

Sharkbytes said...

Bean- too bad you couldn't make it. I'm sure they had a ton of leftovers. 30 families signed up and 5 showed up.