TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Connecticut Roadside Memorial

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Connecticut Roadside Memorial

Connecticut Roadside Memorial - Angels, Deborah Angell Gedney's photo

I'm sharing this from Facebook:

"This was a beautiful yet sad roadside memorial seen along Main Street in Sandy Hook (a Newtown neighborhood) on Sunday 12/16. I just had to stop the car and cry. And bless the huge heart of the person that made such a simple yet lovely tribute so quickly. One of the comments below said it was made by the school art teacher, so I emailed our thanks let them know this photo had over 1,600 shares as of 10 am on 12/18."

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.