As luck would have it I came down with the terrible upper respiratory flu on Tuesday and was unable to attend the opening event for Victoria Reads.  I am quite upset because I was unable to meet Henry Wolff and I heard that he made a wonderful presentation.  A member of the audience sent me the following,

"The Henry Wolff program last night was very good--he is an entertaining speaker and he returned me at times to my eighteenth year when I proof read for a newspaper .  I recall the  inebriated society editor who frequently returned to work in the evenings  to catch up on a few stories and would high step around the office and slur her words as she sipped her laced coca cola from a bottle.  Or the  older woman reporter who was there for a while just as I came to work at 6 and would call me 'little bit' .  Really catching my attention was the male lead writer at night who would fling his paper copies all over the office in his frustration at not getting the right results. These were the real life characters who educated me into the real world in a way the classroom never did.  Well, the audience in the Bronte room last night seemed to really get into the presentation and participated afterward with questions.  I think the staff did a good job of presentation of cowboy theme in the room and we look forward to the remainder of your Victoria Reads."

Victoria Reads continues tomorrow with a presentation on the Camino Real by Robert Shook at 11 a.m. in the Bronte Room.  I am planning to be there if my health continues to improve.  It will be my first introduction into some of the old history of Victoria County and surrounding areas.