  Big Scare in Small Town31 pages 13 full page illustrations $19.95 During October of 1998, the town of Culver held its first scarecrow contest. At that time, I was writing a column for the local paper and decided to cover the contest by creating a crow called D. J. Raven, who on his way to the radio station crosses paths with some of the scarecrows. He hurries to his post to broadcast a warning that strange creatures had invaded the town. He orders his listeners in Birdland to lay low while he examines the threatening aliens from outer space. What he discovers pretty much constitutes the plot of Big Scare in Small Town. At the conclusion of the column, I wondered if some artist in the community would like to collaborate on turning out a book. Years ago, Esther Powers Miller had lent me the services of her children to appear in plays that I was directing for the Culver Academies. Yes, she would lend me her artistic ability to illustrate the book and began by experimenting with wonderful scarecrow note cards. Only one scarecrow in the book was not among the entries in the scarecrow contests, and I hope you’ll buy the book to guess which one is the interloper.  Thanks to Esther’s artistry the book is a best-seller in this area, with a readership from ages four to eighty four, and may be ordered on the Internet: www.painterandpoet.com. or purchased at her shop on Main Street in Culver. Three years ago, I moved my column from the local paper to the Net--forty-three columNets can be read at www.small-town.net, many of them dealing with life in Marshall County.Harvey Firari hfirari@earthlink.net www.small-town.net |
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