By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
My oldest daughter has just returned to Oregon after several weeks visiting with my family in the Deep South. She brought back with her a Southern delicacy that you’d have to have grown up in the South to appreciate — boiled peanuts.
They are sort of like grits [...]
AuroraAn American Experience in Quilt and CraftBy Jane KirkpatrickWaterbrook PressA division of Random HouseHardcover $17.95
By BILL DUNCANThe News-Review
Master storyteller Jane Kirkpatrick has just finished the third novel in her series called “Change and Cherish,” about the life of Oregon pioneer Emma Wagner Giesy, all three novels written in Kirkpatrick’s unique style [...]
The Geography of LoveA MemoirBy GLENDA BURGESSBroadway BooksA division of Random HouseHardcover $22.95
By BILL DUNCANThe News-Review
To write a memoir is a heroic act in itself. To write a memoir as personal as “The Geography of Love,” is a pure gift to readers. Glenda Burgess’ memoir is a very personal love story [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
If you live long enough everything comes back to you. I actually heard my son, Jack, who is in his late 30s and part of the computer age generation, admit he couldn’t open one of those plastic sealed packages that are so annoying to us old [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
The high cost of fuel isn’t all bad. If what I read in the daily newspaper is correct, today’s school children will someday be able to tell their grandchildren they had to walk to school five miles to school in hip deep snow. The bold headline [...]
American Savior A novel of divine politics By Ronald Merullo Hard cover $24.95 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
The reading public is saturated with back biting politics, so Ronald Merullo’s “American Savior,” a satire on the Presidential race is a welcome relief. He [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Memorial services don’t necessarily have to be held in a church or even in a building. Weldon Thomas Heard, 86, a veterinarian and a noted expert on poultry, who died Saturday, July 26, at his farm in Lookingglass, wanted his service in his son, Rex’s [...]
On Friday, August 1, 2008, the Elder Statesman wrote a guest column for Suzanne Beecher, who writes a daily column for her DearReader.Com online book club, a national club for her on-line readers of her weekly offerings of excerpts from books. This is the column and the e-mail responses from readers:
Dear Reader,
My friend Bill Duncan [...]
Getting Older Still Ain’t for Wimps Help Lord! I’m Having a Senior Moment By Karen O’Connor Paperbacks both books for $15.95 Guideposts Publishers
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Karen O’Connor knows the secret of aging gracefully is humor and in this twin offering of her new [...]
Bart Bigfoot and The Red Fox By Jo Barnes Illustrated by David Ewart Paperback $12 Bravado Publishing
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
If there was one incentive for Jo Barnes of Sutherlin to write a children’s book, it came in the form of eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. It is her legacy [...]
