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Fall workshop activities include marketing the little gift book, How to
Gossip Nicely: A Southerner Ponders the Grapevine. Available through
amazon.com, this 40-pager contains much talk about casually communicated news.
Just like the bad and good that can coexist in a real grapevine, there's
damaging gossip and beneficial gossip. Bad gossip is downright snaky, but
good gossip can be positively delectable.
Artist A. B. Moore, my niece who is a student at the Maryland Institute
College of Art, created the marvelous cover art and line drawings; noted
cook Betty Baird Rusher, my neighbor, provided some great recipes "from the
grapevine;" and Robert Hill Camp, a Virginian who speaks the "King's English,"
did some artful "pruning" while serving as copy editor.
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"Naked as a Jaybird," one of 29 drawings by A. B. Moore that appear in How
to Gossip Nicely.
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