{"id":179,"date":"2009-03-03T23:41:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T04:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-03-04T19:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:16:43","slug":"atlanta-book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/atlanta-book-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Book Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The book tour in Atlanta went very well.\u00a0 On the first day of \u00a0my trip\u00a0I visited the home of Mrs. Ann Nixon Cooper and presented her with an autographed copy of The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation<\/em>.\u00a0 I was\u00a0 very honored to have Mrs. Cooper sign a copy of the book for me.<\/p>\n

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Baker presents Mrs. Cooper with The Washingtons of Wessyngton<\/p><\/div>\n

The second day of my tour I was interviewed about the book by Dr. Collette Hopkins, director of the National Black Arts Festival, who graciously accompained me to the book signing at Waldenbooks.<\/p>\n

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Collette Hopkins Director of the NBAF with John Baker<\/p><\/div>\n

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Baker at Waldenbooks<\/p><\/div>\n

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On the third day of the tour Dr. Opal Moore interviewed me at the Auburn Research Library.\u00a0 I later gave a presentation followed by a book signing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Baker interview with Opal Moore at National Black Arts Festival<\/p><\/div>\n

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Baker presentation at NBAF<\/p><\/div>\n

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Baker at NBAF book signing<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0The event was well attended and I met two new Washington cousins Jonathan and Jordan Terry who live in Atlanta.\u00a0 They were excited to find their names on the Washington family tree among more than 600 names.<\/p>\n

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Baker meet new cousins at NBAF<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jordan and Jonathan Terry display Washington Family Tree<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

My good friends Beverly Shelley and her daughter Kimberly\u00a0attended the event.\u00a0 Their ancestors also came from Wessyngton.<\/p>\n

\"Baker

Baker meets with Wessyngton descendants Beverly and Kim at NBAF<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The book tour in Atlanta went very well.\u00a0 On the first day of \u00a0my trip\u00a0I visited the home of Mrs. Ann Nixon Cooper and presented her with an autographed copy of The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation.\u00a0 I was\u00a0 very honored to have Mrs. Cooper sign a copy of the book for me. The second day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,19],"tags":[6,85,60,83,78,82,84,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}