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| Star-Stalker Annie Jump Cannon |
So, I'm needing to head out in the next little bit to talk to what I reckon will be a very small audience [I wouldn't show up either if I hadn't promised I would. It about takes blasting caps to get me out of the house, I swear] at my neighborhood's old folks' home, about illustrating my version of
The Night Before Christmas [23 years ago - can you believe it? me neither].
ThirtySomething was still on network TV. Anyway, today's the anniversary of the birth [in 1863] of astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon, who had a terrific name, one I'd never heard until I wrote & illustrated
Remember the Ladies. 
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| Big Mama Thornton |
AND it's the birthday [in1926, when my dad was 4 yrs old] of rhythm and blues recording artist, knockout-voiced
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton. Click
HERE to hear her belt out
Hound Dog. Baybee.
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