Star Trib: Crowds cheer as Palin arrives for book-signing

From the Star Tribune:

By 11:40 -- a full 20 minutes before her scheduled noon event -- Palin ascended the stage to cheers from the crowd, joined by baby Trig and her husband, Todd Palin.

Within moments, Palin began signing books, taking about five seconds apiece to shake with one hand while autographing with the other. Todd cracked open volume after volume to hand to his wife while someone offstage held Trig. She finished signing at 3:37 p.m.

Also an after action-report at Free Republic:

"We had been standing there awhile when there was a stir and bustle, with lots of people ahead of us bunching up in the walkway and taking pictures. It turned out it was Trig Palin being held by a woman, with everyone crowding around. He was wearing a red outfit with silly round plastic glasses. And that's not all -- Sarah Palin's mother, father, and aunt were there, signing books as well (great way to keep the crowd happy while waiting, by the way). I felt sorry for the young woman who was coordinating this, as she kept trying to usher the family to another part of the amusement park to rest and/or meet and greet other people in line, and the line of people kept straggling up for autographs, over her feeble protests that 'we can't sign any more we have to move on.'"

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"One person -- I wasn't close enough to see if it was a man or a woman-- was in a wheelchair at the side of the stage, and Sarah and Todd *stopped* the assembly line to go over to greet and sign their book and greet them in person. To the thunderous applause of all of us near the stage, by the way."

The complete articles from the Trib here and FR here.

- JP