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Badgerdog Literary Salon at Austin Country Club
Few Austinites deserve such recognition. But retired ad man and current writer Forrest Preece does. He and his wife of 35 years, Linda Ball, embody civic spirit in this town. And they do so as ideal urbanites, soaking up jazz, cabaret, food, wine, ballet and everything else near their downtown residence.
Carla McDonald and Forrest Preece
Tuesday, Badgerdog Literary Publishing conferred its first Forrest Preece Literary Light Award. They gave it to Forrest Preece. First, the man who witnessed the University of Texas Tower shooting close up was roasted, sweetly by colleagues Tim McClure and Dan Bullock, then his wife, Linda. Then we heard selections from upcoming novels by Sarah Bird and Dominic Smith.
Yet the centerpiece of Badgerdog’s program is to match top writing instructors with schoolkids and seniors. From the podium, Preece read aloud some published selections from Austin-area students. Their poetry and prose was startlingly vivid and to the point.
Stephen Moser and Jackie Oh
One of Preece’s contributions to Badgerdog is a higher profile for the still-young group. You can hardly improve on the social celebrities — some having made art books for the silent auction — in the audience: Carla and Jack McDonald, Stephen Moser and Jackie Oh, Sarah and Ernest Butler, Mary Ann and Andrew Heller, Becky Beaver and John Duncan, George Jones, Dr. John Hogg, Joanna Linden, Graydon Parrish, Gary Cooper, Cookie Ruiz, James Armstrong and Larry Connelly, Dan Bullock and Annette Carlozzi.
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