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• COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • AUGUST 1, 2018
Roaring through Bohemian Days
Carousel to host open
house this weekend
Th e Friends of the Cottage
Grove Carousel invite the
community to an Open House
on Saturday, Aug. 4, from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. at the W.O.E.
Fairgrounds.
Aft er more than a year of
restoration work, the vintage
carousel is now assembled
and will be on display (but not
running) during the event.
All ages welcome and
refreshments are provided.
Next meeting of 912 Project
to be held next Tuesday
Th e next meeting of the
Cottage Grove 912 Project
will be Tuesday, Aug. 7, be-
ginning at 6:30 p.m., at Stacy's
Cov-ered Bridge Restaurant,
401 E. Main St.
Th e guest speaker will be
Lois Anderson of Oregon
Right to Life, who has been
with organization since 1999
and is currently executive di-
rector.
Th e Cottage Grove 912
Project is an education-based
organization. All meetings are
open to the public.
GREG LEE PHOTO
In the July 25 edition of The Sentinel, a photograph of a Bohemia Mining Days parade fl oat was incorrectly attributed
to the class of 1976 instead of 1978. The Sentinel regrets the error.
Cottage Grove writer honored in Paris
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
Years ago, Cottage Grove
resident Hal Holbrook went
to an authors’ workshop in
Los Angeles and learned
about book festivals. Last
month, he accepted an award
at the Paris Book Festival in
Paris, France for his chil-
dren’s book, “Th e King Who
Wanted a Whale.”
It was a triumph in the
journey of the little book
that could. It started during
Holbrook’s 30-year career in
education at the elementa-
ry level with stops off at the
state at Opal Th eatre as a mu-
sical.
Now, fresh off its interna-
tional win, Holbrook is pen-
ning the sequel which is ex-
pected to be adapted for the
stage again next spring.
“Elementary kids love the
ocean,” Holbrook said. “Th ey
CAITLYN MAY/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
love the ocean and anything
to do with kings, queens and Hal Holbrook displays the awards he received in Paris.
knights. So, I thought, what a king who was very much back to the drawing board.
if there was a king who had human—unlike the kingdom Th e king went through sev-
a kingdom by the sea and he full of animals that would eral lives — including one
saw whales and thought, he take the stage at Opal years as a lion — before Holbrook
later.
settled back on the ram. His
wanted a whale? Like a pet.”
“I showed the kids some chief steward became a peli-
Th e idea wouldn’t become
much of anything for a while. of the illustrations and asked can and the kingdom’s engi-
Holbrook would jot down them if they liked the car- neer, an iguana.
Holbrook teamed up with
notes and eventually type out toon, the real-istic and then I
a rough outline on his Apple showed them the illustration local director Keith Kessler
2E before trying the material of the ram,” Holbrook said. and wrote an original score
out on a fi ft h- grade class at “Th eir vocal expressions to accompany his book. Th e
were my answer. Th ey were musical debuted this year at
Latham.
Opal to rave reviews.
At that point, all he had so excited.”
So, Holbrook opted to ditch
“During the show, we gave
was a long draft , one of 25 he
would eventually fi nish, and humans for animals and got out fi ve of the books,” Hol-
brook said. “A high school
senior got one of them and
approached me aft er the
show and she’s now illustrat-
ing the second book.”
Th e second book, ten-
tatively titled “Th e King is
Dead” is still a work in prog-
ress despite having been
written not long aft er Hol-
brook fi nished penning “Th e
King Who Wanted a Whale.”
He’s currently working on
the book as well as the music
and has already teamed with
Opal and the original cast to
have a sequel to the musical.
As for the original book,
Holbrook said he enjoyed his
time in Paris, all four days.
“Th ey were very curious
about the musical, because
they ask you if the book has
done anything else. And this
book was a musical so they
were very interested,” he said.
“Th ey asked if I’d bring the
musical to Paris and I said
sure, if you fund it!”
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