{"id":27584,"date":"2019-06-12T23:38:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T04:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27584"},"modified":"2019-06-12T23:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T04:55:29","slug":"thank-you-mam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27584","title":{"rendered":"Thank you M’am"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple days ago I volunteered to read to my grandsons before bed. Its something I did all the time a couple years ago but since they both began reading copiously I’ve fallen out of the habit. I miss it. I love to read to kids. Here’s one of my favorite books<\/a>. For more push the “up” button. I’ve read a lot of books to Claudia too including all seven of the Harry Potter books – twice, except for number seven. I’ve only read The Deathly Hallows one once. <\/p>\n

For this reading I pulled out a wonderful story from the time I led Great Books classes for my daughter back when she was in fifth grade. The story I chose to read was Thank You M’am<\/strong> by Langston Hughes of Harlem. It was written in 1931 a few steps from where my Grandfather earned his Masters Degree at Columbia University. Columbia and the Harlem Renaissance were next door neighbors. I thought I’d share it with you.<\/p>\n