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One Mountaintop Experience After Another
Glen David Hunter
其他書名
A Half-Century Young Harris College Retrospective
出版Father & Son Publishing, 2019-06-04
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralDrama / General
ISBN19358022679781935802266
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_yKJxgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋After suffering a severe heart attack in 2006, teacher/administrator/writer/pianist Glen Hunter recovered with a compulsion to do this book. He has worked on it diligently over the thirteen-year interim, with a passion that seemed so contagious, over five hundred associates have eagerly assisted him. He has left no stone unturned either in his research or his search for the best art and photography to complement his texts, which reflect a choice-namely, he gave colleagues the option to write their own stories or to tell them through him. He has focused on where his postsecondary education started­-Young Harris College, which is located in the breathtakingly beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia. The book admirably combines elements of history, nostalgia, and "eye candy" to give readers a strong sense of what it was like to be there and to feel the love that his colleagues obviously feel. One Mountaintop Experience After Another: A Half-Century Young Harris College Retrospective constitutes a comprehensive study presented with discretion. It deals mainly with a time (the late 1950s and early 1960s) and place (a two-year college that enjoyed the largest enrollment in its eighty-year history during this period) that have been compared to Camelot and Shangri-La, respectively, and nearly all of the people, the setting, the spiritual life, and the music being made and heard seemed like gifts from heaven.The book's special features include interviews of alumnus country-music singer/pianist Ronnie Milsap and school president Dr. Raymond Cook and a reassessment of the life and legacy of poet/novelist Byron Herbert Reece, who was successively a student and a teacher at the college.In conjunction with this project Glen read the autobiographical The Education of Henry Adams and Thomas Hughes's novel Tom Brown at Oxford, used Catherine Marshall's A Man Called Peter as a guide, and then drew from diary entries, letters, newspapers, and chronologies in order to achieve a truly kaleidoscopic volume. The result might well be described as "an embarrassment of riches."