Youth baseball is indeed alive and well in Johnston.So much so, in fact, the Johnston Little League batted 1.000 on Opening Day Saturday at famed Kennedy Field where one of the largest crowds in the …
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Author Cynthia Rylant was inspired by the time she spent with her grandparents to write her first book When I Was Young in the Mountains.
This week we re revisiting an episode of
Inside Appalachia that features children s authors in and from our region. We ll hear Cynthia Rylant, who wrote When I Was Young In The Mountains, David Perri, author of Messy Larry, and Bil Lepp reading from his recent children s book The Princess And The Pickup Truck, and Lyn Ford, a professional storyteller and children s educator, telling a story she wrote called The Old Woman and Death. And while these stories were written for children, like many children s stories, these stories have messages for all of us, including grown-ups.