Write Out Loud with Author Misty Rae
May 21 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Doors @ 6:30pm $8 Admission
Opener: TBA @7pm
TBA will follow Misty Rae
Event Sponsors Stark and Marsh
Misty Rae is an award-winning, mixed-race writer currently living in Morse, SK with her husband and 2 dogs. Born and raised in Oromocto, New Brunswick, she enjoyed a rewarding career as a lawyer before leaving the practice to follow her passion for the written word. When she’s not writing, she can be found out in nature, taking photos or picking wildflowers.
About her book
Paris was born and raised a slave on a South Carolina rice plantation. As a young boy, he used to look up at the birds, flying freely above him. He longed to be free like the birds, but in 18th century, pre-Revolutionary times, it seemed impossible. However, when the British came seeking slaves willing to desert their masters to fight their cause, a 15-year-old Paris saw his chance, and took it.
Based on a real-life Black Loyalist, Paris O’Ree, I Ran So You Could Fly (The Paris O’Ree Story) is a heartwarming, coming-of-age fictional account of a young man’s search for and finding of freedom, not only for himself but for the generations that came after him.
In the face of adversity, prejudice, hunger, pain, punishments and heartache, he persevered in his pursuit of freedom and found it. He ran so he could fly like the birds he once admired. He ran to free himself and to provide a legacy of liberty to his descendants. Never would they know the chains of bondage. He ran so they could fly.