My apologies for not updating this blog! I had that one big event where we met Harper Lee and then the wonderful performance of "To Kill a Mockingbird" put on by two local high schools. One school is almost all black, Fairfield Prep, and the other, Mountain Brook High School, is almost all white.
It was a great play, and the significance of the two schools working together, especially here in Birmingham, Alabama was something I thought about for a great while. And if you have not heard Kim Agee sing (and she was still in high school when she sang this) you really must click here! This video contains still pictures from the performance along with the audio of Kim singing "A City Called Heaven." (Choral Direction by Patsy Howze, what a brilliant move.)
Ben Raines has written a great article about Harper Lee's sister, Alice Lee, a very accomplished woman in her own right. I think Harper Lee fans will find it interesting.
http://blog.al.com/live/2011/06/alice_lee_sister_of_author_har.html
Here is a little snippet from that article:
"Alice Lee, 99, still works eight hours a day at the Monroeville law office started by her father, A.C. Lee, considered the model for Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. In the afternoons, Miss Alice, as she is known around town, visits with her sister, the reclusive author Nelle Harper Lee. Miss Alice handles her younger sister's legal affairs, as she has done since the 1960 publication of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel catapulted Harper Lee to fame. (Ben Raines/Press-Register)"
Also, if you are looking for video of Harper Lee, I still have the videos posted at Youtube.
Harper Lee Speaks Photo Montage of Harper Lee - Video of her speech
Harper Lee Speaks, accepts award from The Birmingham Pledge Foundation
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