NP, but Vonnegut

[Bekah]

More on that Drake case: 
http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/519549.html?nav=5576

Vonnetgut's book was not alone in the furnace -  he got a settlement - etc.  Yuk. 

Bekah


On Mar 31, 2012, at 6:40 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> "In October of 1973, Bruce Severy - a 26-year-old English teacher at Drake High School, North Dakota - decided to use Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, as a teaching aid in his classroom. The next month, on November 7th, the head of the school board, Charles McCarthy, demanded that all 32 copies be burned in the school's furnace as a result of its "obscene language." Other books soon met with the same fate.
> 
> On the 16th of November, Kurt Vonnegut sent McCarthy the following letter. He didn't receive a reply."
> 
> http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-am-very-real.html?kilgore
> 
> LK