A Bucks County State of Mind...in his words - Softcover

Bruce B. Blackburn III

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978886380 ISBN 13: 9780978886387

Verlag: Inside Review, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

To honor the memory of Bruce B. Blackburn III, Bucks Countys beloved journalist and wordmeister extraordinaire...a collection of stories for and about the people who touched his heart. This commemorative book includes 40 profiles Mr. Blackburn wrote in a ten-year period as Senior Editor of Nouveau Magazine in New Hope, PA. The book offers a slice of history into Bucks County and a glimpse into the regions thriving arts and cultural community. Mr. Blackburn wrote, Anyone who knows Bucks County, PA, knows of its rich artistic heritage. Author James Michener called the broad swath of territory along the Delaware River Valley between Doylestown, PA and Lambertville, NJ, the Genius Belt, a reference to the remarkable density of original creative talent the region has spawned throughout the 20th century. Songwriters, authors, woodworkers, playwrights, painters, sculptors . . . so fertile has Bucks County been, its almost impossible to keep track of the prolific people and their accomplishments. Almost, until now... The book features remarkable profiles of distinguished artists, past and present including: Ed Adams, Frank Arcuri, Anthony Michael Autorino, Laura T. Barnes, Robert A. Beck, Irving Berlin by David Leopold, Doris Brandes, Merle Citron, Anne Cooper Dobbins, Derek Fell, Alan Fetterman, John Franklin, aka Johnny Dock, Tom Galbraith & Cindy Wuthrich, Michael Graves, Gordon Haas, Al Hirschfeld, Kat Mojzesz & Don Hayes, Bob Krist, Jan Lipes, Pat Martin, Ron Labno aka Omar, Onofrio Paccione, Dick Perez, Phillip Lloyd Powell, Jack Rosen, Lilly Salvatore, Ashby Saunders, Herman Silverman, Dusty Simi & Mel Stein, Rusty Thomas, Bernard Ungerleider, Annelies vanDommelen, Len Ventresca, and Foster Winans. Says acclaimed New Hope artist Jan Lipes, Gentle, earnest, dedicated and intense, Bruce Blackburn wrote stories about people that unerringly captured the essence of their personalities and the work they loved. As a writer, his questions were probing and his prose ele

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Inside Review
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0978886380
• ISBN 13: 9780978886387
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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