• EXTRA EXTRA! On the Road with the King of Ragtime

  • May 10 2022
  • Length: 13 mins
  • Podcast

EXTRA EXTRA! On the Road with the King of Ragtime

  • Summary

  • 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.

    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.

    SHOWNOTES:

    • The podcast episode Alison quotes is the On Being podcast, "For the Eight Year Old in You," an interview with Kate DiCamillo, and a must-listen.
    • You can read more about the Maple Leaf Rag and listen to it here.
    • 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.
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