Missions & Misadventures

Memoirs of Erasmus Kloman

By Erasmus Kloman

 

This memoir reflects the fascinating trajectory of Erasmus Kloman’s life, both personal and professional. From his early days as a Princeton graduate to his wartime experiences with the OSS and on to the Department of State, international business, NASA, the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the National Academy of Public Administration into a dual career as an author and painter, his life has been an exciting zig-zag of experiences. A worldwide traveler, Erasmus Kloman lives with his wife Sue in Chestertown, Maryland. Paperback. 105 pgs.

 

Soft Cover Trade Edition—$30.00

Fierce Blessings

by James Dissette

 

The second edition of this Maryland poet's collection of 34 poems, including one additional new poem. Dissette's world is an inner terrain of sacred and profane landscapes—failure and loss dance with joy and redemption with a music all his own.

 

Soft Cover trade edition—$17.00

Historic Houses of Kent County

by Michael Bourne

 

The Second Printing with the Historical Society of Kent County. Covering more than 200 years (1642-1860) of architecture and cultural tradition in Kent County, Maryland. Contains information on over 300 houses and sites, 1,000 photographs, maps, floor plans, paintings, and other illustrations.

 

Hard cover with dustjacket—$75.00.

The Waterbusher

by William L. Thompson

 

When loner Lee Somers loses his college scholarship, he seizes the opportunity to nurture his artistic talents by wandering as far from his native Chesapeake Bay fishing village as time and money allow him. He returns home to visit his ailing father, only to discover that a family crisis has put a temporary stop to his travels. It is then that his personal journey begins.

 

Pap has died, leaving Lee and his half sister in debt. The country is in the throes of the Great Depression and cash is hard to come by. Enlisted by a childhood pal in dubious schemes to strike it rich through illegal oystering, bootlegging, and duck hunting, Lee moves into a one-room shanty at the edge of a remote marsh. By night, he nearly breaks his back hauling oysters. By day, he draws in his sketch pad and dreams of putting this hardscrabble life behind him. Based upon an actual account of a 1933 lynching, what happens when the schemes fall apart and Lee is thrown into jail reveals a dark side of rural America that dramatically alters the young man’s perspective of art and the close world he thought he knew.

 

~William Thompson is a former weekly newspaper editor and Baltimore Sun reporter and editorial writer.

 

Soft Cover Trade Edition—$21.00

 

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The Passion for Books

by Gerard M. Cataldo2

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