The Place Just Right: An unexpected return to a small-town past - Couverture souple

Mezz, Brenda Baumhart

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1982099232 ISBN 13 : 9781982099237

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

When Brenda Mezz retired from teaching in a large Los Angeles high school, her husband, Jon, who coped with multiple sclerosis, craved a quieter life and a spacious backyard. Since that was unaffordable on a teacher’s pension in L.A., Brenda figured if they were meant to leave the congested city, it might as well be to the small Ohio town where she grew up. Though it had been forty years, at least somebody might recognize her name. This book is the result of that move.This is a memoir in stories, triggered by dozens of confrontations between the author and her past, surprisingly still very much alive after all those decades. It is at times nostalgic, frequently funny, sometimes sad, but always entertaining, and very likely an echo of the lives of many people who find themselves in search of answers to how they got here from there.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brenda Mezz has spent her professional life either in theater or teaching, often both at the same time. She began and ended her career in high schools, teaching English, literature, composition, and public speaking—first in rural Ohio and last at San Fernando High School in the very urban San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. In between she taught acting, theater history, speech, and writing courses in several universities, including the University of Minnesota, Wisconsin State University—Oshkosh, and North Carolina Central University. During those years Brenda appeared in, directed, or worked backstage for multiple community and university productions. She has degrees from Earlham College, Miami University of Ohio, and four years of postgraduate work in theater at the University of Minnesota. In the late 1970s, Brenda was the stage manager for an off-Broadway production of Diamond Studs, brought to the Chelsea Theater by a repertory company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In Los Angeles she was assistant director for the Los Angeles Theatre Alliance, an arts service organization for fifty professional equity-waiver theaters, providing support in publicity, production, and management to its members. Brenda retired back to Ohio in 2001 and began a new career as a writer. Besides her writing projects, she is heavily involved in local history, having facilitated, written for, and edited a history of Preble County townships in addition to other books, lectures, and presentations on the subjects of history and genealogy. She is a proud mother to her son, David Mezz, who is presently a magazine editor in Charleston, South Carolina. She is also a mother to four cats of which she is not so proud, but loves anyway.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1982099232
• ISBN 13: 9781982099237
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 218
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