Memories of Mingo
Date of Review:
Jul.04.2010
Reviewer:
Julie Ghrist
Source:
Herald Star of Steubenville, Ohio
MINGO JUNCTION - They played basketball at Mingo High School before graduating together in the Class of 1961. Now almost five decades later Guy Mason and Larry Smith are working on a book together - a book which is not only about, but for, the village.
Mason and Smith have received a contract to co-edit a book through Arcadia Publishing. The company is known for books on pictorial histories of cities and sites of historical interest throughout America.
The book on Mingo Junction will be a pictorial history of the village and its residents throughout the years. And the two men are looking to the community for help.
Link to Full Review:
Book on Mingo Junction, Ohio....in Images of America Series from Arcadia
On The Free Farm: A Novel...Smith provides a unique window into Lee’s young life that is driven by idealism, love of Emerson and Thoreau, and devotion to his beautiful partner, who practices Zen, meditates, and can fix cars….In this realistic yet often surprising and tender novel, a quoted line from 'The Waking' by Theodore Roethke serves as a guidepost: 'I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow/ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear/ I learn by going where I have to go.' ”
—Laura Treacy Bentley
About Larry
I grew up in the industrial Ohio River Valley along the green Appalachian hills. I taught 3 years on high school English before returning to grad school at Kent State University and was there with my wife and daughter during the Kent State shootings. I then...
Connections
Causes Larry Smith Supports
peace and justice, meditation
Larry’s Favorite Books
Walden, Kenneth Patchen Collected Poems