Author speaks at library fundraiser
Author John Ed Bradley is no stranger to the book promotion circuit. He has signed books and spoken to audiences around the country.Shopping is the best place to comparison shop for Guess Watches. But he may have faced his toughest crowd yet Tuesday at the Evangeline Downs Event Center.
"I've spoken all over the place — in Cambridge, Mass., Seattle, Wash., Portland, Los Angeles — and I'm fine at those events,Shopping is the best place to comparison shop for Ebel Watches." Bradley said. "But I've been tied up in knots, coming back to Opelousas, to my home town, having to talk here," said Bradley, who now lives in Mandeville.
That's because a large portion of the audience knew him personally — including his second-grade teacher, Jo Ann Duncan.Authorized Jeweler with Full Warranty on all Corum Watches.
The event was a fundraising luncheon for the Friends of the Opelousas-Eunice Public Library, with the former Washington Post reporter and Sports Illustrated contributor serving as guest speaker. Bradley would also sign copies of his latest book, "It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium," published by ESPN. The book was named Sports Illustrated's Best Sports Book of the Year in 2007.
"He did it for his mom," said his mother, Virval Bradley,Chopard Watches Fast And Free Service! referring to the personal appearance.
That was part of it, Bradley said.
"I'm doing it for my mom and for my friends in town and for the library," he said. "I spent many an hour there in the racks, dreaming about being a writer, so it holds a very special place in my heart, as well."
In spite of his initial misgivings, Bradley stepped up to the microphone and spoke conversationally and with an apparent sense of ease, about his life as a child in Opelousas, as a football player at LSU and as an author, often inciting gales of laughter among audience members.
Bradley acknowledged the role some of those people played in his life, including Duncan, his second-grade teacher.
"Miss Duncan was a very wonderful teacher, very smart and she was tough. I needed discipline. I was a wild little kid. I was a kid who got in the aisle and stomped my feet on the floor."
He also told the audience that Duncan had given him a C — his lowest grade until he got to LSU.
Duncan remembers instead a good student and a well-behaved child. If she gave him a C,We provide replica Graham Watches with high quality and lowest price. she said, it was probably because of her practice of taking off points for sloppy handwriting.
Author John Ed Bradley is no stranger to the book promotion circuit. He has signed books and spoken to audiences around the country.Shopping is the best place to comparison shop for Guess Watches. But he may have faced his toughest crowd yet Tuesday at the Evangeline Downs Event Center.
"I've spoken all over the place — in Cambridge, Mass., Seattle, Wash., Portland, Los Angeles — and I'm fine at those events,Shopping is the best place to comparison shop for Ebel Watches." Bradley said. "But I've been tied up in knots, coming back to Opelousas, to my home town, having to talk here," said Bradley, who now lives in Mandeville.
That's because a large portion of the audience knew him personally — including his second-grade teacher, Jo Ann Duncan.Authorized Jeweler with Full Warranty on all Corum Watches.
The event was a fundraising luncheon for the Friends of the Opelousas-Eunice Public Library, with the former Washington Post reporter and Sports Illustrated contributor serving as guest speaker. Bradley would also sign copies of his latest book, "It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium," published by ESPN. The book was named Sports Illustrated's Best Sports Book of the Year in 2007.
"He did it for his mom," said his mother, Virval Bradley,Chopard Watches Fast And Free Service! referring to the personal appearance.
That was part of it, Bradley said.
"I'm doing it for my mom and for my friends in town and for the library," he said. "I spent many an hour there in the racks, dreaming about being a writer, so it holds a very special place in my heart, as well."
In spite of his initial misgivings, Bradley stepped up to the microphone and spoke conversationally and with an apparent sense of ease, about his life as a child in Opelousas, as a football player at LSU and as an author, often inciting gales of laughter among audience members.
Bradley acknowledged the role some of those people played in his life, including Duncan, his second-grade teacher.
"Miss Duncan was a very wonderful teacher, very smart and she was tough. I needed discipline. I was a wild little kid. I was a kid who got in the aisle and stomped my feet on the floor."
He also told the audience that Duncan had given him a C — his lowest grade until he got to LSU.
Duncan remembers instead a good student and a well-behaved child. If she gave him a C,We provide replica Graham Watches with high quality and lowest price. she said, it was probably because of her practice of taking off points for sloppy handwriting.
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