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Carl Brandon's story is an interesting one, and needs a little explaining. Back in the 1950s, several white fanzine fans were looking around at science fiction conventions and realizing there were no Fans of Color that they knew of. Fanwriters (at that time) Peter Graham and the late Terry Carr suggested that perhaps one should be invented. A committee was formed and sworn to secrecy, and they began by writing letters of comment (LoCs) to fanzines from Mr. Brandon, in which he eventually let it slip that he was black. Carl Brandon proved so popular that fans scoured the halls at conventions where Brandon was rumored to be in attendance, wanting desperately to meet him.

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I’ve been a birdwatcher since I was 10 or 12; what got me started was the year when Evening Grosbeaks — colorful seed-eaters mostly found north of the U.S.-Canada border — moved south in search of food and a few found their way to our next-door neighbor’s feeder. After that, I was hooked. My brother Mike and I went out numerous times in early mornings looking for whatever was out there, and sometimes we were surprised by the interesting birds we saw. Often our mom and dad would join us, and we covered a fair bit of wild ground in central Wisconsin over those years. For several years running we participated in the...

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