The event was a smash success, in my personal opinion. Why? Because everyone involved was so incredibly amazing. I was blown away by the personal stories that people were willing to share. It was fascinating to hear everyone’s different adventures through life and how they’ve made a difference in people’s … Read More
“Communication,” an exhibit based on a collaboration between the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) and the Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA), generated quite a bit of interesting conversation. Authors were either pleased or disappointed by the work created in response to their offerings. Some of the art followed classic, … Read More
Birds fascinated my father. I could never quite understand why. Not until he died. My mother dumped his bird-watching books on me. I knew then what the scientist in him saw when he watched birds in their natural habitat: great variety, environmental adaptations, the living proof of Charles Darwin’s theory … Read More
In the 2000 film, Finding Forrester, Sean Connery played the fictitious author William Forrester, described by the Washington Post as “a cross between Howard Hughes and J.D. Salinger.” In the movie, Forrester supposedly wrote the great American novel Avalon Landing, his first and only book, and one that took the … Read More