In the meantime, let me tell you about the books. I came away with enough information for a second column about Lovelace’s Claremont years. I met Keppel, Diane Campbell and Krista Barrett, all members of the Society’s Southern California chapter, last week in Claremont. “And that it was Claremont, and that our book had just come out.” “We were really excited,” confided Peggy Keppel of my interest. And they came bearing news: They’d recently published a book about Lovelace’s years in Claremont. That this is an infrequent occurrence may be borne out by the swift response. Luckily, someone in the Minnesota-based Betsy-Tacy Society ( ) had set up a Google news alert for mentions of Lovelace and Betsy-Tacy online. 1, I found Christenson’s note and, what the heck, wrote an item requesting information from anyone who might have it. But in composing a desk-clearing column for Jan. I was doubtful, given that Lovelace died in 1980 and was a mystery to me. My schooling began with a note last year from Upland reader JoAnne Christenson, who suggested that Betsy-Tacy author Maud Hart Lovelace, who spent the last 26 years of her life in Claremont, might make a good column. My newfound knowledge comes courtesy of reading two of them, and reading about their author, and hearing from her fans, who are organized enough to have formed a club. (Such as that the last one was published almost 60 years ago.) Now I know all sorts of facts about them. Heavens to Betsy, until recently I’d never heard of the Betsy-Tacy books, the last one of which was published almost 60 years ago.
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