HEADED TO MEET HOMER HICKAM TONIGHT. Hickam is the author of October Sky, originally titled Rocket Boys. He's appearing at the Forest Hills Fine Arts Center in Grand Rapids at 7:00 tonight. October Sky is the One Book, One County title for Kent County.
My wife also read The Coalwood Way by Hickam (he calls it "an equal, not a sequel") and, of course, October Sky was made into an excellent film.
