 |
|
The Hungry Little Bunny This is the third childrens book written and illustrated by Farrior, a retired art teacher in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Described as a "touching bedtime story filled with whimsical artwork and a fun and rhyming text," it's about a lop-eared bunny who gets lost in a snowstorm and has to search for food. Farrior, who taught for 31 years before retiring in 1999, also wrote and illustrated A Child's World from My Point of View and Froggie Babies. Published by Ivy House Publishing Group, hardcover, 28 pages The War of Confederate Captain Henry T. Owen Ms. Owen, a Farmville native who lives in Richmond, is not a descendant of fellow Prince Edward County native Henry Thweatt Owen (1831-1921), who commanded Company C in the 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment. However, he was the great-grandfather of the co-authors, who are brothers. While doing genealogical research on her family, Ms. Owen was told about Graham Owen, who lives in Florida and was researching Henry Owen, and, at his request, she began copying and mailing material from the archives at the Virginia State Library. "Finally we decided the best way to preserve Henry's papers was to write a book," she says. Ms. Owen, who was Kim Terry at Longwood, works with arrest records for the Virginia State Police. Published by Heritage Books, paperback, 292 pages A Dream Come True Foster, who was Besty Duncan at Longwood, is an independent New Age composer who lives in Glen Allen, near Richmond. She ran a transcription business from 1991 until health problems (from a near-fatal car accident in 1984) forced her to give it up in 1998."Then I retired to writing music, which is my first love," she says. "I found out I could write music at Longwood, where I was a piano performance major." Some 10 of the CD's songs are instrumental; the other five feature vocals from studio musicians. The CD has been played on 200 radio stations nationwide, including the Sunday morning show on WFLO in Farmville (she is a Farmville native) and on Soundscapes, a nationwide music channel on cable TV, and it spent seven months in the Top 10 of the New Age charts. The CD is sold at the Longwood Bookstore and through her Web site (www.betsyfoster.com). Miselaineous and live simple, breathe deep The first is a solo CD by Dempsey, a full-time musician who lives near San Francisco, and the second was recorded with fellow musicians L.E. Lambert of Norfolk and Karl Werne of Virginia Beach. Dempsey, a Richmond native, worked in the therapeutic recreation field in the Tidewater area before moving in 1992 to Mill Valley, California. "I came out here on a gust of wind; it was strictly intuition," she says. "At first I lived on a friend's sailboat." She and Lambert played as a duo for many years, and Elaine, Lambert and Karl perform now mostly on the East Coast. Dempsey played in coffeehouses as a student at Longwood, where she majored in therapeutic recreation. welcome to my world Though her real name is Harron Fells, she uses Harron Evoria professionally to honor her grandmother, Evoria, who helped raise her. An independent artist whose production company is Moon Child Music, she plays saxophone and the keyboard on the CD, all of whose tracks she wrote and produced. She plays gigs up and down the East Coast, both solo and with a five-piece band. She lives in Chesterfield County and is a pharmacy technician for Genesis Health Care and a substitute teacher. – KB |
|
