About the Author: Jane Louise Newhagen
Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, I went "east to college" where I graduated from Brown University in Providence, R.I. Since then, Ive lived in Massachusetts, New York, Paris, France and mainland Florida. Ive made my home in Key West since 2000.
My publications and related work include:
- I just won First and Third Prizes in the Key West Writers Guild short story contest for my stories Remembrance and Suenos.
- My reminiscence, Grandmommy's Love, is included in the anthology All My Good Habits I Learned from Grandma, edited by Laurel Seiler Brunvoll, 2007, Thomas Nelson, Inc.
- My short story, Paint Job, was published in the 2006 Florida International University Key West Writers Conference Anthology, which can be viewed at http://w3.fiu.edu/CRWRITING/KeyWestAn....
- My essay on the promotion and defense of the principles of a free press was a finalist in the Inter-American Press Association Chapultepec Essay Contest.
- My fable, Amavie, won second place in the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge contest.
- For four years I was an associate editor and feature writer for Country Pleasures, a Westchester County, New York magazine.
- For three years I wrote feature articles and personality profiles for The Pound Ridge Review, Acorn Press and The Lewisboro Ledger.
- My other articles have appeared in publications including The New York Times Op Ed page, Hudson Valley Magazine, Women's News, New England Sporthorse Journal, and Junior Riders.
- I was a five-year member of the Hiram Halle Memorial Library Board of Trustees in Pound Ridge, NY, responsible for public relations.
- I was public relations consultant for the Putnam County NY Symphony Orchestra where I designed and produced their first fund-raising campaign.
- I have written and edited newsletters both professionally and as a volunteer for over fifteen years. The newsletters have included Saw Mill River Club/Tennis Equities, a health club conglomerate in Mt. Kisco, NY; the Boca Raton Newcomers Club; the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Boynton Beach, FL; and the Florida Keys Audubon Society of which I am also secretary.
- I have been the archivist for the Key West Historic City Cemetery since 2003.
More information is available on my web site, www.janenewhagen.com. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, I went "east to college" where I graduated from Brown University in Providence, R.I. Since then, Ive lived in Massachusetts, New York, Paris, France and mainland Florida. Ive made my home in Key West since 2000. My publications and related work include: - I just won First and Third Prizes in the Key West Writers Guild short story contest for my stories Remembrance and Suenos. - My reminiscence, Grandmommy's Love, is included in the anthology All My Good Habits I Learned from Grandma, edited by Laurel Seiler Brunvoll, 2007, Thomas Nelson, Inc. - My short story, Paint Job, was published in the 2006 Florida International University Key West Writers Conference Anthology, which can be viewed at http://w3.fiu.edu/CRWRITING/KeyWestAn.... - My essay on the promotion and defense of the principles of a free press was a finalist in the Inter-American Press Association Chapultepec Essay Contest. - My fable, Amavie, won second place in the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge contest. - For four years I was an associate editor and feature writer for Country Pleasures, a Westchester County, New York magazine. - For three years I wrote feature articles and personality profiles for The Pound Ridge Review, Acorn Press and The Lewisboro Ledger. - My other articles have appeared in publications including The New York Times Op Ed page, Hudson Valley Magazine, Women's News, New England Sporthorse Journal, and Junior Riders. - I was a five-year member of the Hiram Halle Memorial Library Board of Trustees in Pound Ridge, NY, responsible for public relations. - I was public
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Jane Louise Newhagen
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Paperback, Published in Nov 2011 by Outskirts Press
ISBN10: 1432782630 | ISBN13: 9781432782634
Page count: 194
Pieces of Eight a tale of old Key West Key West in the 1850s was filled with uncertainty, mystery, and questionable opportunities. Not a good place for a young woman. Julia Miller thought otherwise when she left her home and family on Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas. Love clouded her vision when she eloped, but raising two children, their fathers long-gone, and life in a homeless camp brought into sharper focus a harsher reality than she'd ever imagined. And yet, she couldn't return to Green Turtle Cay. In this meticulously-researched and engagingly-narrated story, the author recreates this exciting tropical city while exploring the choices women make and the meaning of home. From the authorI once lived in a house that was brought to Key West from the Bahamas in the 1800's. The thick heart pine walls were so hard they bent nails. At the kitchen doorway, old wood cupped beneath a new sill. I knew there was dust in the cracks that dated from the original owners. I put a pencil and paper in the attic in case there was a spirit presence with something to say. There wasn't, but I never lost the sense of the people who lived there before me. Jane Newhagen is also the author of Sand Dollar a tale of old Key West. She lives and writes in Key West, Florida.
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