Meet board member Kathy Poss!
The following is a guest blog post by board member Kathy Poss, and part of our monthly board member spotlight series. Kathy is a retired school nurse and Elbert County resident, and the mother of two educators in area counties. As someone who hails from a family of educators for whom books have played a central role, she believes heartily in the importance of Books for Keeps.
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One day a few years ago my friend Joan Prittie asked me to lunch. She told me about Books for Keeps and how it was expanding to Elbert County. I later joined the Board.
What a great opportunity to encourage and improve reading skills in children. I have always enjoyed books but realize not all kids have access. Call of the Wild and White Fang fascinated me as a young reader. Biographies were favorites. Clara Barton, Florence Nightengale, George Washington Carver were a few summer books.
I can’t pinpoint a pivotal book in my youth but I vividly remember reading The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls. The Razor’s Edge was in the headboard at my grandmother’s house, so I read it. This summer I am reading John Adams and probably some historical selections. Though I can’t do it all, I adore DIY books.
My grandmother finished high school at 16 and became a one-room school teacher in a very rural area. Some of her children were named for book characters. This was evidence of her love for reading.
My mother loved poetry and tried her hand at writing poetry. The thing that reading did for my family was widen a world that had physical boundaries into a broad rich world of idea.
In a very small town we [...]
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