Saturday, November 24, 2012

"Shared Miracles," a new book about the 90-year partnership of the DAR and Crossnore School.

This is a book about history, a 40-page e-book, that stems from a meeting I had with Dr. Phyllis Crain, head of The Crossnore School late in 2011. She very much wanted to pay tribute to the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization whose support for the school began in the twenties and continues today. A year in the making, the book traces key events, gifts and sea changes via a richly illustrated story, a kind of American heritage piece with spreads as theatrical as designer and friend Ann Baker and I could make them. I hold tremendous gratitude for the opportunity that Phyllis Crain gave me to craft this history and I am especially pleased it is being published after her death in July, 2012, from a long, long battle with cancer. Many thanks to Ann and to the Crossnore and DAR communities for helping make this book such a pleasure to craft. Copies will be available, beginning in December 2012, through Blurb books.