8/21/2019 Donation to Canterbury Lower School Fort Wayne

• Canterbury School is an independent, college preparatory day school for students K-12.  The school is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 
• The school was ranked as the best private K-12 school, the second best private high school, and the second best college preparatory school in Indiana by Niche.  
• Carol Butler has been a Gallery Guest at the Canterbury Book Fair for the past five years.

Helen Presser accepted a copy of Mama Joe's Kitchen book donated by Carol and Tom Butler.  Mama Joe always strived very hard to get her education. She would be proud to know that her great granddaughter shared that trait and graduated from the Canterbury School and went on to receive a university graduate degree.

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John Dickmeyer interviews Carol Butler about her new book, Mama Joe's Kitchen. They reminisced about their own childhood memories involving Jacks and Marbles and how the book takes you back to a softer gentler time, when family was all important. John tells his own story of a childhood experience involving sauerkraut.  John reflected that the key to the book is nostalgia, very unusual for books today.

30 minute interview - Carol talks about the book:

•  11 minutes in; and, 
• tells her grandmother's story of getting a higher education at 20 minutes in.
• John Dickmeyer's summary of the book, "This is a fabulous book!"

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The Fort Wayne, Indiana Allen County Library hosted the Fort Wayne premiere of Mama Joe's Kitchen. Mama Joe's Fort Wayne family gathered with other community friends  to celebrate and hear the first reading of her book in Fort Wayne.

 Carol Butler, Mama Joe's oldest living grandchild and author of the book, greeted the celebrants and read the story for all those gathered.  She also discussed the creation of the book and the friends that she made along a three year journey.

Mama Joe's Fort Wayne family gathered that included her grandchildren, great grand children, and great great grandchildren.

 Checkout the new 4 minute video by Mylisa Kelly, Mama Joe's great grand daughter, of the Fort Wayne premiere of Mama Joe's Kitchen Book Signing.

Mama Joe's scrumptious 1-2-3 Pound Cake was served with love as was Mama Joe's tradition. The recipe for the cake is included along with three other recipes in the book.

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 It is only fitting that Mama Joe's Kitchen book should be available to the children in her community.  First stop was the Commerce (Georgia) Public Library. 

 The book was accepted by  Angel Abounader, Manager, Commerce Public Library.  Plans were already being made for the library's use of the book.

L-R  Carol Butler, Angel Abounader, Sheconda Aker Benton  

The next stop was the Jefferson Public Library 

just about five miles from where Mama Joe lived.

The Mama Joe's Kitchen book was accepted by  Barbara Koski  on behalf of the Jefferson Public Library.   A beautiful mural made a very inviting area for children to read books. 

L-R Carol Butler, Barbara Koski

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