Student Photo Video Montage, Nelle Harper Lee

A Photo and Video montage of Nelle Harper Lee. Photos taken Sept. 13, 06 at the Alys Stephens Center in Birmingham, Al.

Miss Lee was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Birmingham Pledge Foundation. Prior to that she graciously meet admirers at a fund raising reception for The Birmingham Pledge Foundation.

The highlight of the reception was the arrival of students from Fairfield Preparatory High and Mountain brook High School. The students are staging a joint production of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Scenes from the play

Harper Lee Speaks

I recently saw Nelle Harper Lee, author of "To Kill A Mockingbird." Everyone says that she doesn't talk, that's she is a recluse.

I found the opposite to be true. She does talk. And she listens quite well also. And she isn't a recluse. She just does what she wants to do, and most of those things receive little or no fanfare.

However, on September 13, 2006 Nelle Harper Lee received a Lifetime Achievement Award from "The Birmingham Pledge," a non-profit foundation that works to erase racism and other isms from society.

So THAT event received some fanfare, although not as much as I thought it would.

I will be posting photos and video from the event and sharing my recollections here on this blog.