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This afternoon, Beverley Buller spoke at the William Allen White State Historic Site.
As it was Father’s Day, she mentioned her own late father. He had told her more than once that she would write a book. And she has. “From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White” was published last fall. She dedicated her book to her father.
On the theme of Father’s Day, she showed this photo that’s in her book of William Allen White and his son, William Lindsay White.
Among other things, Beverley spoke about the process of researching information about White in Emporia, El Dorado, Lawrence and Colorado. When she began, Heather Wade had just been hired as the ESU Archivist. Beverley called Heather Wade “my archival angel.”
I’ve heard Beverley talk several times about her book – and she’s given dozens of talks to groups around the state – and she still as excited and interested in William Allen White as the first time I heard her.
Beverley pointed out a photo of Mary White on her grandmother’s porch which was next door. “That’s the same sweet little girl who rode her horse up the stairs and into her grandmother’s house.”
Beverley is great and talented and a professional school librarian and an author who has done a service to Kansas, forever.
I wish we had had young people in attendance today because Beverley is in her element with young people. She engages and sparkles with young readers. I’ve seen it.
Without young people we got the motivation behind her writing the Sage book. Good book, good woman, good service to the cultural legacy of Kansas.
I forgot to mention that a woman from Wisconsin was there and took the tour following.