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Geometry of Echoes:
The Memoir of a 300-Year-Old New England House
by Jeanie Murphy
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Book Cover Scrimshaw Artwork by Bob Hergert.
Book Cover Design by Isabel Bay Design.
Donna Cody: A Tall Tale
by Jeanie Murphy
Donna Cody is an aspiring fiddler with contentious ideas about what constitutes the great cathedral of folk music. She dreams of John and Alan Lomax camping on the side of the road, Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles trekking through the mysterious Appalachians, collecting their treasures. Like them, she longs to find the true old-time players of tunes and singers of songs before it’s too late.
In her sky-blue Rambler, with her newfound banjo-playing, cigar-smoking, and proverb-spouting friend, Sandy Panther, Donna Cody will collide with:
a dog named Buster and some cows
folksingers
earnest young Christians
a writer
an innkeeper
prison guards and their prisoners
a shantyboater
feral cats
a Nashville record producer
and more.
Will Donna Cody find the living music without getting herself and her companions killed? Will Sandy Panther find fame and fortune and a recording contract? It’s a dark and mysterious time, with no Internet or tiny handheld thingamajigs to help out. But together, maybe these two women can find just what they need, even if it’s not always what they’ve been looking for.
Book Cover Artwork by the incredibly talented Nancy Merrill.
Book Cover Design by Isabel Bay Design.
About Jeanie Murphy
Jeanie is a retired though not retiring English professor who wrote and developed courses for a fledging campus that included everything from Shakespeare to Fairy Tales to World Mythology to English Grammar to Bible as Literature, Medieval British Literature, to the usual panoply of writing and "Intro to" courses in poetry and fiction. In other words, she had a lot of fun, and some of her students did too.
She also worked as a technical/developmental editor. Her favorite editing project involved working with the wondrous Stephen Wade on his new book, Our Common Life. She has published poetry in many journals and taught banjo at The Festival of Fiddle Tunes and The Wallow Fiddle Camp.
When she isn’t writing, you can typically find Jeanie playing old-time banjo and fiddle.
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Jeanie also teaches clawhammer and old-time picking on the banjo, in person or online. Contact her for more information.
Jeanie also loves to kayak and hike the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, where she lives. She is married to the fabulous fiddler and luthier, Scott Marckx. Her daughter, Phoebe Owens, has a prize-winning podcast for children, The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland.
Contact Jeanie!
She would love to hear from you.
