Jeanette Jarmon was hooked from the first phone call back in March. Novelist and children's book author Sue Clifton of Oakland, Mississippi, had called the Columbus artist to ask her to illustrate a children's book. As Clifton shared her whimsical tale over the phone of a mandolin-playing tarantula, a lonely old woman named Ruby and their mutual love of Ozark mountain music, Jarmon's imagination started firing.
"When I heard her read the story to me I thought, "I've gotta do it," Jarmon said. "
Jan Swoope is the Lifestyles Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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