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John Halliday Paintings: Catalogue of an Exhibition
John Halliday was born in Kirkcudbright on July 14th 1933. His early schooling was at the Johnston School and Kirkcudbright Academy, 1938-1949. His determination to be a painter increased under the inspiring tutelage of Jean Menzies. When the painter Cecile Walton came to Kirkcudbright in 1947 a close friendship grew between the fourteen year old schoolboy and this distinguished artist. At his father's behest he left school to begin an apprenticeship with the Galloway News. The high calibre of his briefly sketched cartoons persuaded the Editor Tom Phin and the proprietor John Maxwell to encourage the youngster to return to school to complete his secondary education Both Jean Menzies and Ceci...
Don't Bring Me No Rocking Chair
Gathering poems from Shakespeare to the present, Don't Bring Me No Rocking Chair addresses aging through the several ages of poetry. Poetry can help to give us a fresh language to think about aging and these poems are chosen to fortify, celebrate, lament, grieve, rage, and ridicule.
Flying Through Midnight
Riveting, novelistic, and startlingly candid, John T. Halliday's combat memoir begins in 1970, when Halliday has just landed in the middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606th Special Operations Squadron. But there's a catch: He's stationed in a kind of no-man's-land. No one on his base flies with ID, patches, or rank. Even as Richard Nixon firmly denies reporters' charges that the United States has forces in Laos, Halliday realizes that from his base in Thailand, he will be flying top-secret, black-ops night missions over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail. A naive yet thoughtful twenty-four-year-old, Halliday was utterly unprepared for the horrors of war. On his fir...
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Four sixth graders save their friendship and their town.
The Scottish Nation
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Shooting Monarchs
Macy and Danny, two teenage boy who have both grown up under difficult circumstances, turn out very differently--one becomes a hero, the other a murderer.
