When my father was a senior in high school at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas, he was given

the first colored addition of National Geographic to take home and read by his teacher Elizabeth Huckaby.

Mrs. Huckaby would later become famous for her civil rights involvement with the “Little Rock Nine”.

47 years later my mother and father strolled into a used bookstore in Long Beach, California.  After a few minutes of looking through old National Geographic's, my father found the same edition.

After returning home, and sitting down to look through the magazine that inspired him almost 50 years previous, he noticed that written at the top was “Mrs. Huckaby” twice!

After researching, we discovered that it was indeed her handwriting.  Little Rock and Long Beach are over 1600 miles apart.