Wanted . . . Mud Blossom (15 page)
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Authors: Betsy Byars
Byars with Laurie, Betsy, Nan, Guy, and Ed at her daughter Betsy's wedding on December 17, 1977.
Byars in 1983 in South Carolina with her Yellow Bird, the plane in which she got her pilot's license.
Byars and her husband in their J-3 Cub, which they flew from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast in March 1987, just like the characters in Byars's novel
Coast to Coast.
Byars speaking at Waterstone's Booksellers in Newcastle, England, in the late 1990s.
Byars and Ed in front of their house in Seneca, South Carolina, where they have lived since the mid-1990s.
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copyright © 1991 by Betsy Byars
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