Whirlwind Love: Libby's Journey (30 page)

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the following for their encouragement, time, effort and/or support: Sherrie Pitts; Mildred Hendley; Cary Davis; Joni Long; Connie Thompson; Shelba Howard; Joni Long; Laurie Starke; Jeannie and Glen Osborne; Linda Hasty; Lauri Wiles; Sandra Smith; Pamelia Franco; Miriam Williams; Jamie Wurdinger; Claudia Gutierrez; Delilah Bonnert; Michelle Banks; Tammie Hill; Emma Strickland; Amy Hoover; and Ann Gainey.

Thanks to Sandra Smith, Donald and Crystal Ciesielski, Greg Austin, Jim Shaylor, Robin Hamilton Sisco, Lauri Wiles and Jim Bob Wiles, for all your time and effort for the Whirlwind Love storyboard project (which can be seen at http://www.facebook.com/WhirlwindLove).

Special appreciation to George Xanthakos of George’s Southside Restaurant in West Columbia, SC and Leigh Burton of The “L” Word Bar, also in West Columbia, SC, for allowing me to shoot the storyboard project and for allowing us to disrupt their day.

Cover (in part): Special appreciation to the generosity of Carol M. Highsmith and the Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division for permitting usage of her canyon image (in part) for the cover artwork http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.16385