A crowd of 1,000 turned out at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center in Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla to get their copies of the former Alaska governor's best-selling memoir signed.
Anchorage Daily News reporter Zaz Hollander described the scene at the spacious sports complex as more of a homecoming than a book signing:
Sarah Palin got treated like a homecoming queen when she brought her national book tour to Wasilla today.- JP
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Palin got a rousing welcome from about 750 people waiting below when she strode up the ramp to the second floor of the sports center at 11 a.m., wearing black boots with 4-inch heels and a red jacket covered in raised cloth roses.
The event Tuesday marked the first chance for the general public to attend a Palin book-signing in Alaska. Earlier this month, Palin signed copies at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage and Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, but neither of those events were open to the general public.
Palin signed books on the upper floor of the sports center with her husband, Todd. Fans waited in lines downstairs, and then were ushered upstairs in small groups during the three-hour event.
I am so glad she had that size of a crowd! Perfect place to end the tour and perfect ending for the tour.
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