On Thursday, November 6, 2008, I had the privilege of listening to an author by the name of Kit Bakke. She talked about her book "Miss Alcott's E-mail". The book is about a correspondence between Kit Bakke from the present time and a Civil War era woman named Louisa May Alcott. Mrs. Bakke was inspired to write about Louisa because their lives were similar. Both were activist in some ways, both were nurses, and both women wanted to contribute to try to make a change. The hour or so of time was spent talking about three topics, Louisa's World, Kit's World, and the Writer's world. The one thing that struck me about Louisa was during the Women's Suffrage, she was the first ever woman from her area/town to register to vote for a school board election. Also the fact that she grew up in the neighborhood, or practically neighbors with many great literary minds like Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne she became a writer herself. In fact they were all close family friends. She also had to deal with mercury poisoning. With the life of Kit Bakke being a political activist (Vietnam War) ba
ck in the 1960's, she accumulated 400 pages of FBI memo. (I would say she was a pretty important person for the FBI to have that many pages about you.) Writer's world--She talked about how she came to be an author and what inspired her to write about Louisa. Mrs. Bakke learned to love her country instead of fight with it when September 11, 2001 happened. She finished the session with reading a sample from her book and answering questions from a room full of students and professors.
On Thursday, November 6, 2008, I had the privilege of listening to an author by the name of Kit Bakke. She talked about her book "Miss Alcott's E-mail". The book is about a correspondence between Kit Bakke from the present time and a Civil War era woman named Louisa May Alcott. Mrs. Bakke was inspired to write about Louisa because their lives were similar. Both were activist in some ways, both were nurses, and both women wanted to contribute to try to make a change. The hour or so of time was spent talking about three topics, Louisa's World, Kit's World, and the Writer's world. The one thing that struck me about Louisa was during the Women's Suffrage, she was the first ever woman from her area/town to register to vote for a school board election. Also the fact that she grew up in the neighborhood, or practically neighbors with many great literary minds like Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne she became a writer herself. In fact they were all close family friends. She also had to deal with mercury poisoning. With the life of Kit Bakke being a political activist (Vietnam War) ba
ck in the 1960's, she accumulated 400 pages of FBI memo. (I would say she was a pretty important person for the FBI to have that many pages about you.) Writer's world--She talked about how she came to be an author and what inspired her to write about Louisa. Mrs. Bakke learned to love her country instead of fight with it when September 11, 2001 happened. She finished the session with reading a sample from her book and answering questions from a room full of students and professors.
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or it shows just how much "everyday" data the FBI collects. What do you do with 400 pages? It doesn't take much to arouse suspicion:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_stasi?currentPage=all
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