MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Bob Philpot, Sharon Buckman, Sharon Palmeri, Beverly
Stanislawski, Caren Von See, Katherine Flotz, Amy Brailey, Adam Sedia, Rebecca
Juergens, Amy Clites, Michael Bednarczyk, Earl Mayo
OLD
BUSINESS:
A vote of approval for the January 18, 2018 minutes was first
given by AMY BRAILEY and was
seconded by REBECCA JUERGENS.
LITERARY
NEWS:
ADAM
SEDIA mentioned that he took second place in the Society of Classical Poems (Nationwide), for two
of his poems, “At Lincoln’s Tomb,” and
“Vision.” Congratulations!
SHARON
BUCKMAN stated that her newest book, Beyond the Canopy, should be coming out in print next
week.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI stated that AL
KOCH has been busy editing his second book.
EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAM:
AMY
BRAILEY opened the program with a talk on Historical Research. She described to the members how much
research was involved in writing an historical novel. Amy had been given a grant for her research
on George Washington. Some of the books
she talked about, and showed to the members, were “John Everett and the Halls
of History, “ Braddock Road Chronicles Fort Pitt 1755,”Monogahela
1754-1755,”George Washington Remembers,”Pictorial Life of George Washington,”
“The Journal of Major George Washington.”
Amy’s own book is entitled, “Finding
George Washington.” The program was enjoyed by all the members.
READINGS:
BOB
PHILPOT read two pages of the continued prologue for his novel “Strange Friends.” The prologue told of
a FedEx delivery ruse used to gain entrance to a house garage where six black
clad men entered the house through the garage and laundry room. The prologue ended with the occupants being
tied up and placed on a couch in the living room.
AMY
BRAILEY read two pages of her continued her novel in progress entitled,
Jon
Everett and the Hall of History.” The story is continued from Jon
falling asleep in his history class and being assigned to a trip to the History
Museum. After finding a key to a chest
in his grandfather’s attic, he is enabled to go back in history where he
finds George Washington and General Braddock.
They end up giving him a job of widening a road for incoming troops.
ADAM
SEDIA read two of his prize winning poems. The first, “At Lincoln’s Tomb,” a seven stanza poem told of the shame Lincoln
would endure if he could “rise to life and stand outside the tomb.” The second poem, a sonic poem with “No Title,” was a four stanza poem
beginning with “Would that I walked in
those far-distant days, When angels lighted from empyrean spheres.” These sentences were the best explanation of
the poem.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI read her four-page short story entitled, “Birds of a Feather.” The story told of a bird nicknamed by his “friends” as Poor Birdie. He was unable to fly due to his missing
feathers and finally went into hiding to escape the ridicule. When he finally emerged his whole world had
changed, he now had beautiful feathers and was the envy of all his friends.
AMY
CLITES read her six-stanza poem entitled, “Lazy Sunday.” The poem told of a beautiful Sunday day
being observed as “They’ll soak up the yellow air that hugs and hugs and hugs
them, making them dance with the joy of another day.”
KATHERINE
FLOTZ read her one page
story entitled, “The Moral of the Story.” The story definitely had a good moral value,
which was given by a young boy as he told his father he was making a wooden
bowl for him to eat out of when he gets old.
The boy had been observing his grandfather having to eat at another
table out of a wooden bowl.
REBECCA
JUERGENS read Chapter Two of her newest novel entitled, In
The Devil’s Hands. In this part
of the novel Teagan gets into an argument with her family as they try to get
her to return to college after the disappearance of her friends. She states she
will not give up until she discovers what happened to them.
CAREN VON
SEE read
three pages of her newest novel, My Treasure Chest. The novel continues with Sara getting up in
the morning to find that her husband, and two uncles had gotten drunk the night
before and were suffering from terrible hangovers. After trying to soothe their aches and pains,
Sara and Ava began to laugh after deciding they deserved it.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
SHARON
BUCKMAN
