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Lynne Hesse, pages 438-441
The experience of creating pages for the Little Women Altered Book Project centered on teaching my sister to read and fabric art. I would come home after the first grade and teach Kathy what I had learned.
Attending elementary school was the first time we couldn't share an important event together. Kathy is 11 months younger than I.
Now, we both love to work with fabric. Kathy creates beautiful quilts. I have a dandelion quilt she made for me on my bed. The theme was inspired by my dandelion persona, which I developed with the dance troupe, The Dancing Flowers for Peace.
My parents didn't keep many books in the house, nor did they read to us. They were busy laboring as blue collar parents must do, but the library was the Tharp sisters' second home. Our imaginations and the Sears Catalogue could keep us happy for hours.
My father built our concrete brick home "on the wrong side of the tracks" on Vine Street in an old mining town, Webb City , MO. A gravel road was in front of the house where we played in the rain and floated paper boats in ruts and pot holes.
I remember my little sister talking to dad as he mixed the cement in a spinning, grinding vat. "You know what daddy..." Kathy would say as she began a long, usually embellished story. She was the free spirit. I was the brave observer and recorder.
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