Bøger af Richard Gartee

Dylan Clarke has become obsessed with Atlantis.All Dylan needs to complete his PhD is to write his dissertation, but he is preoccupied with Atlantis. Then his former girlfriend Holly shows up. She has been working for a non-profit that drills community wells in the Sahara. Dylan signs up. This would put him closer to Holly and to the Eye of the Sahara-a site he believes was the location of Atlantis. But when he arrives in Africa, Holly is no longer there! Her contract ended, and she returned to the US. But he's contractually stuck there for six months. Will he at least be able to visit the Eye of the Sahara while he is there?Follow Dylan from campus life, to Egypt, Algeria, Mauritania, and home, again.

Arbor Encore is a collection of 47 poems by Richard Gartee, which had their first publication in the renowned international poetry journal, Ann Arbor Review. Written and published over the course of five decades, during which the author became a regular Ann Arbor Review contributor.Beginning with a scene of students tobogganing down the hills of Ann Arbor's Arboretum after-hours, the volume alternates longer narrative poems of memories or imaginative scenarios with short, pithy, poems of sometimes cosmic observations. The topics range from fairy flights, to tea in Goa, India, children playing with dandelions, spousal discord, the nature of men and women, time, fame, and much more. All expressed in a variety of styles, rhythms, and voices.

How the spirit of great theatre saved a dying downtown business district, became a city's cultural icon, and centerpiece of its artistic community.Fifty years ago a daring band of players began what would quickly evolve into one of the most highly respected regional theatres in the US. Christening their endeavor The Hippodrome Theatre, this fledgling company of thespians produced shows of such excellence that they soon drew playwrights from the New York and London theatre world to their humble digs in Gainesville, Florida. They got the attention of the National Endowment for the Arts and eventually, a grant to restore a historic beaux arts courthouse into the magnificent theatre that has been their home since 1981. A not-for-profit professional theatre, the Hippodrome has employed over 1,200 actors and given hundreds of Equity members their start.With an engaging narrative style, award-winning author Richard Gartee explores the trials and triumphs of fifty years and 440 theatrical productions. The book includes the story of each play, cast members of most, and recollections and anecdotes from Hippodrome founders, actors, directors, and production staff. These are illustrated with over 420 black and white photos.

Dick Gartee is a time traveler who has journeyed ninety-three years from the past-one day at a time.During the Great Depression, the only hockey puck in the neighborhood slides onto thin skim-ice and nine-year-old Dick heroically skates after it.When his father leaves his mother for another woman, plucky thirteen-year-old Dick takes a night job in a bakery to help his mother make ends meet.At seventeen, with World War II raging, he enlists in the Navy and rises from gunner mate to payroll and disbursements. By age twenty, the Navy trusts him with two million dollars cash.In the post-war years, he teaches himself engineering, builds factories, and designs manufacturing production lines and industrial robots.Elements of daily life that seemed ordinary to Dick are inconceivable to young people today. His biography provides context for key transformative eras of America's recent past as Dick faces tribulations and joys with morality, humor, and humility.Younger readers will be astonished to learn how people managed before smartphones while older generations will smile as they recall anecdotes their parents shared. But no matter your age, you will be charmed by Dick's story, and maybe you will discover some things you didn't already know.