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Two days later I got another call, this time from an equally perky nurse at the surgery center, filling me in on the usual details about outpatient surgery.
Which is why, at the end of our visit, I sat on a bench in the visitor center filling out a one-page white paper form for the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park "List of Ancestors".
But tell that to the throngs walking the wide aisles of the convention center, filling their tote bags with conference swag: pencils from The London Review of Books, Lindt chocolates from Blue Flower Arts, sunglasses from the Otis College of Art and Design.
(The July cupcake was decorated with a flag made from tiny strips of red licorice; the August one was a clown constructed — somehow — by cutting a conical wedge out of the center, filling the resulting hole with frosting, using the cutout piece as a hat, and then topping the whole thing with a pompom made of buttercream coated with sprinkles).
Yet for three days every year, there they are: close to 20,000 authors, publishers, librarians and booksellers, milling around a gargantuan convention center, filling tote bags with free galleys, eyeing jumbo posters bearing publication dates and wagering a guess on which books might take off this year.
Which is why, at the end of our visit, I sat on a bench in the visitor center filling out a one-page white paper form for the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park "List of Ancestors". This database was begun "after many years of seeing stories walk out of the visitor center unrecorded," explained Pam Eddy, a park ranger historian.
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