Only ten days until Carry it Forward, the RFC’s program at Town Hall in New York City to commemorate the 60th anniversary of my parents’ execution, will take place.  It has become extremely hectic at our office as the results of more than a year of planning reach fruition.

It is exciting for me to be making the final preparations to join Angela Davis, Eve Ensler and Cotter Smith and all our other wonderful performers on stage.  Carry it Forward promises to be the most moving and dramatic event we’ve ever produced.

Also, the audience will be filled with many dear old friends.  People are coming from as far away as Austin, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and even Paris.

The copies of the program book we’ll give out to those who attend arrived the other day.  The book looks terrific.  We’re particularly thankful to the most generous supporter who, without being asked, donated the extra funds that enabled us to print the entire booklet in four colors.  I can hear my adoptive mother, Anne Meeropol’s, voice pronouncing: “The book is stunning.”

I’m looking forward to seeing the event t-shirts which we expect in the office in the next couple of days.  While I hope we sell lots at the program, I covet at least one left-over in my size that I can add to my collection from previous shows and gatherings.

Aside from that, we’re busy with what seems like thousands of logistical details.  It is a daunting task to produce a major dramatic program from a base that is 150 miles from where the performance will take place.

The media has taken notice of our plans as well.  I’m spending an increasing amount of time giving newspaper and radio interviews.  Whatever TV occurs will happen next week.  Press coverage is an additional bonus of putting on a major program.  Media interest enables us to reach many thousands of people beyond those who will be attending on Sunday evening, June 16th, with at least some of message.

So my time is, and this blog will be, short.

I hope I’ll see many of you at Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street (between 6th Avenue and Broadway), starting at 7pm on Sunday June 16th.  And if you can't be there in person, or even if you can but want to share in the excitement both before and after the event, you can follow along and add your own comments on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/rosenbergfundforchildren or via Twitter, where our handle is @wwwrfcorg and the event hastag is #cifevent.

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