Sarasota News Leader
September 6, 2013
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gram will continue with four young library
patrons, who will introduce each of the four
girls killed in 1963: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia
Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair.
There will be poetry, more music and a reading from King's eulogy for the victims, presented by Newtown minister Kelvin Lumpkin.
The following section of the program, Reverberations, will highlight the original poetry of
none other than Sarasota County Commission
Chairwoman Carolyn Mason. "Isn't that something?" asks North Sarasota Library Artist in
Residence Lonnetta Gaines, one of the organizers of the event. She didn't learn that Mason wrote poetry till she traveled to Denver
with the commissioner to represent Sarasota
in this year's All-America City competition.
Commissioner Carolyn Mason. Photo by Norman Schimmel
The aftermath of the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing. Photo courtesy Flickr
