EXTRA EXTRA! On the Road with the King of Ragtime

<p>In this special Foreword mini-episode we sit down with IRW Director of School Programs Alison Johnson and Steve Costanza, author & illustrator of The King of Ragtime, at the Henry D. Moore Library in Steuben, ME.</p> <p>Steve & Alison reflect on their 5-school tour of Washington County and share with us what it's like to be back in-person at school assemblies, their most memorable moments with students, and their experience traveling hundreds of miles along the Maine coast with a piano. </p> <p> </p> <p>SHOWNOTES:</p> <ul><li>The podcast episode Alison quotes is the On Being podcast, "For the Eight Year Old in You," an interview with Kate DiCamillo, and a <a href='https://onbeing.org/programs/kate-dicamillo-for-the-eight-year-old-in-you/'>must-listen.</a> </li> <li>You can read more about the Maple Leaf Rag and listen to it <a href='http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/9905_ragtime/index.shtml'>here</a>. </li> <li>The music at the end of this episode is Steve Costanza playing Scott Joplin's Fig Leaf Rag at the Henry D. Moore Library, May 7, 2022. </li> </ul>