Harper Lee funeral was today.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Our al.com site covered it very well, so here is link.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/private_funeral_held_for_harpe.html#incart_river_home

I did not realize the funeral was gonna be so soon
In a couple weeks when the tourists are gone, I will go up to the cemetery and take a pic of her family plot.
Right now most of us are laying kind of low and keeping to ourselves, staying away from the famous courthouse, avoiding the tourists.

[brer cat]

1. Thanks for the link.

I am glad it was kept simple and private as she requested. If you see a transcript of Flynt's eulogy, please let us know...I would love to read it and I'm sure others would too. I hope life gets back to normal soon.

[Photographer]

2. She was truly a shining light.

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. Didn't realize Wayne was so close to her all these years.

Met him a couple of times back when he was a college professor. Nice guy with a photographic memory. Here is an article from 2014 about the release of "Go Set a Watchman".

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/02/new_harper_lee_book_totally_le.html

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"This one sort of floored me," said Flynt, who surmises that Harper Lee's sister, Alice, who died in November, and Lee's attorney, Tonja Carter, probably knew that the manuscript existed. "I don't think anyone would have done this without Nelle's full knowledge and consent."

And it doesn't surprise Flynt at all that Lee never mentioned the manuscript to him or others.
"She will tell a lot of stories, about Truman Capote and Gregory Peck and Veronique Peck," he said, "But as for anything about her private life and publishing, not a word."

Flynt, who has taught and lectured extensively about "To Kill a Mockingbird" around the world, said it's interesting that the "new" manuscript, which Harper's press release said was written before "To Kill a Mockingbird," bears the Pulitzer Prize-winning book's original title.

"The editor at Lippincott didn't like the title, and he was right," Flynt said of "Go Set a Watchman." "'To Kill a Mockingbird' is a much better title."

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