During that trip the two became real friends. I took the photo to the left just before Barbara and my aunt Frances left for a trip together to Yuma - where the artist had her first glimpse of Roxaboxen, with Frances there to tell her about all they did back then. Before she began the art this justly-famous artist learned - as I myself had done before I began to write the text - just about everything possible about Roxaboxen - from my mother’s handwritten 1916 book, from all the information I had my aunts and others still alive who had played there - and of course from my own memories of what my mother had told me when she was alive. The words I wrote to tell about this memorable place created by children were published as a book in 1991 with luminous illustrations by Barbara Cooney.
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