Kays Gary The St. Jude of Journalism

By Kays Gary and Sister Marie Patrice

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• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B000GHVGOG
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Friends of Kays Gary
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great human interest stories, roughly edited

Full disclosure: this review is by the author's daughter. This book is the second anthology of Kays Gary's columns, written for and published by The Charlotte Observer. The book was hastily assembled by his widow and a friend following his death in September of 1997. The haste was because they wanted the book to be available in time for Christmas sales, as all proceeds were going to his favorite charity. There was essentially no proof reading, resulting in a number of wince-inducing typos, of the type that led to his never reading his own columns in the paper so as to avoid near-daily swivets. That said, the editing errors don't detract from the enjoyment to be found in his writing and the people he wrote about. His writing regularly moved the city of Charlotte to tears, provoked multitudes to think and feel more deeply about the people in their lives, and set records, in speed and dollar amounts, when it came to opening checkbooks for the urgent needs he wrote about. This is a great book for any aspiring journalist, as well as for people looking for ways to be effective community organizers and promoters. Things like the annual kite contests, bike give-aways, and Fancy Pants Platoon open to all children who wanted to be in the Thanksgiving Day Parade, all brought people together in ways that they got to know others whom they would never have met otherwise. It's also good for bed-time reading, as even the tear-jerkers are entries to the joys available to human creatures.