As Heartland Community High School’s class of 2017 graduates Sunday in Henderson, Nebraska, they’ll be joined by two special guests, each keeping a promise eight years in the making.
The guests are Brian Selznick, award-winning author/illustrator of “Wonderstruck” and “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” and Suzanne Lloyd, the granddaughter of Nebraska-born silent film star Harold Lloyd.
How did Selznick (who lives in New York) and Lloyd (Los Angeles) come to be at a high school graduation ceremony in a tiny town of 1,000 in the middle of Nebraska? Well, that’s kind of a funny story. One that involves a silent film festival and a whole lot of letters to Johnny Depp. Read More
