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Dancing Brings Community through the river of a man’s life
My father Erwin Thompson continues his story of how dancing and music continue to shape and enrich his life and the lives around him. —JGR Waltzing and The Broom Waltz Square dances were my love, along with the simple waltzes, the Rye Waltz, and most of all the “broom waltz” where at several points in…
Thompson’s “Worth Remembering” Melds History & Family
JANET RIEHL produced her father’s newest poetry book: Worth Remembering: The Poetry of Our Heritage. ERWIN A. THOMPSON’S 360 page book received a Gold Medal at the 2009 Branson Stars and Flag book awards during Veterans Homecoming Week. This family and friends poetry anthology gives readers a slice of living history during the past 100…
Blog Action Day: Poverty in the Great Depression. “The Kind of People that We Are”—a poem by Erwin A. Thompson
Blog Action Day is today, with a focus on Poverty. Currently 9,394 Sites with an audience with more than 10,612,112 readers are registered in Blog Action Day 2008. Last year, I participated when bloggers focused on the Environment. Read my post on how it’s “Easy to be green at the Carelton Hotel in San Francisco.”…
Riehl on WITS Podcast: Internet Marketing & How to make an audio book
Three years ago I was one of Yvonne Perry’s Writers in the Sky podcasts shortly after the publication of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary.” Today Yvonne and I chat again on her podcast about “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” showing the miles we’ve traveled since then. This was recorded in the hospital…
River Love from Childhood & Changes in the River, by Erwin A. Thompson
River Bluffs I have lived on the bluffs that overlook the Mississippi River for all but the first nine months of my life. The family owned a good pair of field glasses, and they were one of my great experiences, to look through them and watch things like the building of the rafts when they…
WITS reviews “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music”
Sarah Moore reviews “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” on Writers in the Sky’s e-zine. Here’s an excerpt from Sarah’s review: Each moment of the CDs is filled with warmth, humor, and a deep connection to those who have come before us. Sightlines is a must-have audio book for anyone who appreciates…