1.December A Special Visitor Comes to Possum Ridge is here! Fresh off the presses! Because the of the Katrina-damaged Old Capital's closing, the annual Christmas train layout was cancelled. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History created a DVD of a story written by MDAH staffer Elizabeth Coleman about a hobo who arrives in Possum Ridge, Mississippi, the fictional train layout town, on Christmas Eve. The story aired on Mississippi Public Broadcast television that season and has become a very popular tradition with MPB-TV viewers during the Christmas season. The story was so popular that folks began to ask about a possible picture book being published. In 2006, C.G. agreed to edit the DVD text to picture book length and illustrate the story. The train layout has found a temporary home in the William Winter Archives Building during the Christmas season each year while the Old Capital is being repaired. This year, on December 1st , Lucky Osborne (aka; Lucky), the main character of the book, read to the children who had come to visit the trains. Author Elizabeth Coleman and C.G. (photo left) signed copies of Possum Ridge for all the children, parents and grand parents who had come for the special book signing event. |
