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Caroline Kennedy looks at Christmas
Book tour's final stop brings her to Norwood on Friday
BY SARA PEARCE | [email protected]
Every day has been Christmas for Caroline Kennedy this year.
"I don't know what I am going to do in January, I will be so depressed," she says, laughing.
It's been one big holiday as she visited libraries and historic sites, dug through family and newspaper archives, dove into department store files, and read book after book looking for works to include in her anthology "A Family Christmas," (Hyperion, $26.95).
It was published Nov. 1 and she's been touring for it since. Her final tour stop is Friday at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Norwood.
She's excited. It will be her first time in Cincinnati. "I always ask to go some place new on a tour," she says, asking what she should see in town if she gets a few spare minutes.
The 332-page book is an eclectic mix that reflects Kennedy's wide-ranging interests, quick wit and intelligence.
There are poems by e.e. cummings, Nikki Giovanni and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, lyrics by Run-DMC, Irving Berlin and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Bible verses, and short stories by David Sedaris and O. Henry.
Sermons delivered by Cotton Mather and Martin Luther King Jr. pop up, as does a letter written by George Washington to John Hancock on Dec. 27, 1776 describing his Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware River.
There's even Martha Washington's recipe for the "Great Cake" she served on Twelfth Night and the text of the Supreme Court's 1984 decision on whether a municipality can include a Nativity scene in its annual Christmas display.
Not everything begs to be read aloud but most of it does, which is what Kennedy, 50, hopes families will do.
"I was looking for a topic that would allow families and different generations to share reading. Reading doesn't have to be solitary. So much is transmitted through the power of words, ideas and books."
Writing poems for one another, illustrating Bible verses and creating greeting cards were part of her family's celebration that she's continued with her own husband and children.
"I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a family with such a rich artistic and literary tradition," she says.
Her first choices for the book were holiday standards already familiar to her.
Clement Clarke Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas."
The lyrics to the song "Away in a Manger."
Bible passages such as Isaiah 9: 2-6 ("and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace").
But surprises were unearthed.
She says the search gave her the opportunity to read things she had always meant to but had never gotten around to, such as Truman Capote's heart-wrenching short story "A Christmas Memory" - one of her mother, Jacqueline's, favorites.
She knew about an essay that her grandmother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy wrote for Ladies Home Journal in the 1960s on "The Real Gifts Parents Can Give to Children" but couldn't recall ever having read it.
It covers the gifts of faith, zest and service. "It captured her so well, the way that she wrote and spoke," Kennedy says.
She had that same feeling about a 1961 letter written by her father, President John F. Kennedy, that was discovered by archivists at his namesake library. In it, he reassures a girl in Marine City, Mich., who was worried about the Russians "bombing the North Pole and risking the life of Santa Claus."
He tells her that Santa will "be making his rounds this Christmas" but not before saying that he shares her "concern about the atmospheric testing of the Soviet Union, not only for the North Pole but for countries throughout the world; not only for Santa Claus but for people throughout the world."
"It captured the spirit of his administration," Kennedy says. Her introduction briefly touches on that administration, and her early memories of living in the White House, which include making calls to Santa via the White House operator.
She isn't quite sure of what her first Christmas memory is. She has a vague recollection of staying in a rented house in Palm Beach with her parents, hanging stockings and getting ready.
Like many people, her memories tend to be an amalgamation of every Christmas she has experienced.
But no matter where the family was and where hers is now, reading and books were - and are - an integral part of the season.
"I want to bring reading and books back into the celebration," she says.
"When we read other people's experiences of it, it makes our own holiday experience more fulfilling."
She says she could easily create dozens of more anthologies devoted to the holiday.
But she is moving on to another poetry book project, an anthology for children of poems to learn by heart.
For it, she's teaming again with artist Jon J. Muth, a Cincinnati native and Western Hills High School grad. He illustrated her best-selling children's anthology "A Family of Poems" in 2005 and created illustrations for this book, too.
"He has an incredible gift for finding the essence in something," she says.
Caroline Kennedy looks at Christmas
Book tour's final stop brings her to Norwood on Friday
BY SARA PEARCE | [email protected]
Every day has been Christmas for Caroline Kennedy this year.
"I don't know what I am going to do in January, I will be so depressed," she says, laughing.
It's been one big holiday as she visited libraries and historic sites, dug through family and newspaper archives, dove into department store files, and read book after book looking for works to include in her anthology "A Family Christmas," (Hyperion, $26.95).
It was published Nov. 1 and she's been touring for it since. Her final tour stop is Friday at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Norwood.
She's excited. It will be her first time in Cincinnati. "I always ask to go some place new on a tour," she says, asking what she should see in town if she gets a few spare minutes.
The 332-page book is an eclectic mix that reflects Kennedy's wide-ranging interests, quick wit and intelligence.
There are poems by e.e. cummings, Nikki Giovanni and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, lyrics by Run-DMC, Irving Berlin and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Bible verses, and short stories by David Sedaris and O. Henry.
Sermons delivered by Cotton Mather and Martin Luther King Jr. pop up, as does a letter written by George Washington to John Hancock on Dec. 27, 1776 describing his Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware River.
There's even Martha Washington's recipe for the "Great Cake" she served on Twelfth Night and the text of the Supreme Court's 1984 decision on whether a municipality can include a Nativity scene in its annual Christmas display.
Not everything begs to be read aloud but most of it does, which is what Kennedy, 50, hopes families will do.
"I was looking for a topic that would allow families and different generations to share reading. Reading doesn't have to be solitary. So much is transmitted through the power of words, ideas and books."
Writing poems for one another, illustrating Bible verses and creating greeting cards were part of her family's celebration that she's continued with her own husband and children.
"I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a family with such a rich artistic and literary tradition," she says.
Her first choices for the book were holiday standards already familiar to her.
Clement Clarke Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas."
The lyrics to the song "Away in a Manger."
Bible passages such as Isaiah 9: 2-6 ("and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace").
But surprises were unearthed.
She says the search gave her the opportunity to read things she had always meant to but had never gotten around to, such as Truman Capote's heart-wrenching short story "A Christmas Memory" - one of her mother, Jacqueline's, favorites.
She knew about an essay that her grandmother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy wrote for Ladies Home Journal in the 1960s on "The Real Gifts Parents Can Give to Children" but couldn't recall ever having read it.
It covers the gifts of faith, zest and service. "It captured her so well, the way that she wrote and spoke," Kennedy says.
She had that same feeling about a 1961 letter written by her father, President John F. Kennedy, that was discovered by archivists at his namesake library. In it, he reassures a girl in Marine City, Mich., who was worried about the Russians "bombing the North Pole and risking the life of Santa Claus."
He tells her that Santa will "be making his rounds this Christmas" but not before saying that he shares her "concern about the atmospheric testing of the Soviet Union, not only for the North Pole but for countries throughout the world; not only for Santa Claus but for people throughout the world."
"It captured the spirit of his administration," Kennedy says. Her introduction briefly touches on that administration, and her early memories of living in the White House, which include making calls to Santa via the White House operator.
She isn't quite sure of what her first Christmas memory is. She has a vague recollection of staying in a rented house in Palm Beach with her parents, hanging stockings and getting ready.
Like many people, her memories tend to be an amalgamation of every Christmas she has experienced.
But no matter where the family was and where hers is now, reading and books were - and are - an integral part of the season.
"I want to bring reading and books back into the celebration," she says.
"When we read other people's experiences of it, it makes our own holiday experience more fulfilling."
She says she could easily create dozens of more anthologies devoted to the holiday.
But she is moving on to another poetry book project, an anthology for children of poems to learn by heart.
For it, she's teaming again with artist Jon J. Muth, a Cincinnati native and Western Hills High School grad. He illustrated her best-selling children's anthology "A Family of Poems" in 2005 and created illustrations for this book, too.
"He has an incredible gift for finding the essence in something," she says.
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She looks nothing like her mother.
I used to think so as well, but as she matures I see more and more of a similarity. She shares her mother's wide-set eyes and high cheek bones, but definitely has the Kennedy family mouth and nose.
IMO, when she was younger, she looked just like her father, but, maturity reveals a strong ressemblance with Jackie.
It's quite hard to determine, I think: all is in the eye of the beholder!
Share your opinions!
Book Collector—Oct/Nov 2007
The Daughter of Camelot Signs Her Way into History
by John E. Schlimm II
Several years ago, while i was a grad student at Harvard, I made one of many treks out to Columbia Point, in Boston, to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. I had arrived about two hours early and was standing near the front of a long line, waiting to get into the auditorium, where an event was to be held. About a half-hour before the event, the front door of the museum opened and in walked an unassuming, middle-aged woman. She had shoulder-length brown hair, a familiar face and she was wearing a simple, fitted suit (in ivory, I think) and sneakers. With a purse and tote bag (containing her heels, I assumed) slung over her shoulder, she quietly scurried across the entrance foyer and disappeared into a private room.
When the crowd finally realized who she was, there was no gaudy applause and nary a gasp, as might have been the case for a more common celebrity. There was more of a respectful and awed silence, like a reverence that might be offered to royalty. As the daughter of Camelot strode past us, one thing was for sure: we all knew we were in the presence of living history.
From practically the moment she was born, in 1957, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg was in the public eye. Once her father, John F. Kennedy, became president, in 1961, her life was never the same. Since then, she has lived a fantastic journey, during which she has endured unspeakable tragedy and grief. However, in every instance, she has held her head high and faced both the glories and the challenges with the same grace, sophistication and Kennedy mystique that her parents embodied.
For collectors, Caroline has also proven to be accessible, even if, as I again assume, she would much prefer to stay sequestered in a private world. She understands fully though that she still has a public duty—one she didn’t ask for, but one of which the fates have deemed her worthy. Years ago, Caroline emerged in an unexpected, and New York Times bestselling way, by publishing books and willingly signing them at events and through the mail.
Caroline is a lawyer by trade, and her first book was 1990’s In Our Defense. She coauthored this book, and her second, 1995’s The Right to Privacy, with her friend Ellen Alderman. The two women had met while attending Columbia University School of Law. I sent the first book through the mail for Caroline to sign, which she did, and I attended a booksigning for the second. These two signings foreshadowed good things to come for autograph collectors, specifically book collectors, where Caroline Kennedy was concerned.
In 2001, Caroline returned to the bookshelves with The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I had the good fortune of seeing her do a reading from the book and had her sign the book at the Boston Public Library. Then, in 2002, as I recounted at the beginning of this column, I once again met up with Caroline at the Kennedy Library, where she brought together the writers who had contributed to her book, Profiles in Courage for Our Time. Together, they discussed the work in a presentation titled “The State of Political Courage Today.”
In addition to having Caroline sign this book at a formal, organized signing that took place after the discussion, I bounded to the front of the auditorium and secured the autographs of the contributing writers. These men and women included E.J. Dionne, Al Hunt, Gwen Ifill, Bill Kovach, Marian Wright Edelman, Hilda Solis and Steve Roberts. Later, at the formal signing, I also had Caroline autograph Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, which was the coffee table book companion to the traveling exhibit of the former first lady’s dresses. Caroline had written the foreword for the book.
I saw Caroline one more time after this. In 2003, I attended a New York City reading and booksigning for her tome A Patriot’s Handbook. Since Caroline proved to be a willing through-the-mail signer for her very first book, I sent 2005’s A Family of Poems to her via the Kennedy Library last year. After a several month wait, the book came back with a personally inscribed and signed bookplate.
This fall, Caroline is releasing her newest title, which is a Christmas-themed book. This is one more precious opportunity for collectors to begin or continue their own Caroline Kennedy Library of signed books, a collection that is as tangible a piece of history as one can acquire.
The Daughter of Camelot Signs Her Way into History
by John E. Schlimm II
Several years ago, while i was a grad student at Harvard, I made one of many treks out to Columbia Point, in Boston, to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. I had arrived about two hours early and was standing near the front of a long line, waiting to get into the auditorium, where an event was to be held. About a half-hour before the event, the front door of the museum opened and in walked an unassuming, middle-aged woman. She had shoulder-length brown hair, a familiar face and she was wearing a simple, fitted suit (in ivory, I think) and sneakers. With a purse and tote bag (containing her heels, I assumed) slung over her shoulder, she quietly scurried across the entrance foyer and disappeared into a private room.
When the crowd finally realized who she was, there was no gaudy applause and nary a gasp, as might have been the case for a more common celebrity. There was more of a respectful and awed silence, like a reverence that might be offered to royalty. As the daughter of Camelot strode past us, one thing was for sure: we all knew we were in the presence of living history.
From practically the moment she was born, in 1957, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg was in the public eye. Once her father, John F. Kennedy, became president, in 1961, her life was never the same. Since then, she has lived a fantastic journey, during which she has endured unspeakable tragedy and grief. However, in every instance, she has held her head high and faced both the glories and the challenges with the same grace, sophistication and Kennedy mystique that her parents embodied.
For collectors, Caroline has also proven to be accessible, even if, as I again assume, she would much prefer to stay sequestered in a private world. She understands fully though that she still has a public duty—one she didn’t ask for, but one of which the fates have deemed her worthy. Years ago, Caroline emerged in an unexpected, and New York Times bestselling way, by publishing books and willingly signing them at events and through the mail.
Caroline is a lawyer by trade, and her first book was 1990’s In Our Defense. She coauthored this book, and her second, 1995’s The Right to Privacy, with her friend Ellen Alderman. The two women had met while attending Columbia University School of Law. I sent the first book through the mail for Caroline to sign, which she did, and I attended a booksigning for the second. These two signings foreshadowed good things to come for autograph collectors, specifically book collectors, where Caroline Kennedy was concerned.
In 2001, Caroline returned to the bookshelves with The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I had the good fortune of seeing her do a reading from the book and had her sign the book at the Boston Public Library. Then, in 2002, as I recounted at the beginning of this column, I once again met up with Caroline at the Kennedy Library, where she brought together the writers who had contributed to her book, Profiles in Courage for Our Time. Together, they discussed the work in a presentation titled “The State of Political Courage Today.”
In addition to having Caroline sign this book at a formal, organized signing that took place after the discussion, I bounded to the front of the auditorium and secured the autographs of the contributing writers. These men and women included E.J. Dionne, Al Hunt, Gwen Ifill, Bill Kovach, Marian Wright Edelman, Hilda Solis and Steve Roberts. Later, at the formal signing, I also had Caroline autograph Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, which was the coffee table book companion to the traveling exhibit of the former first lady’s dresses. Caroline had written the foreword for the book.
I saw Caroline one more time after this. In 2003, I attended a New York City reading and booksigning for her tome A Patriot’s Handbook. Since Caroline proved to be a willing through-the-mail signer for her very first book, I sent 2005’s A Family of Poems to her via the Kennedy Library last year. After a several month wait, the book came back with a personally inscribed and signed bookplate.
This fall, Caroline is releasing her newest title, which is a Christmas-themed book. This is one more precious opportunity for collectors to begin or continue their own Caroline Kennedy Library of signed books, a collection that is as tangible a piece of history as one can acquire.
