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New Biography of Moves from the Civil War
to WWII into the Age of Nuclear Energy
Battle of Gettysburg as a fourteen- Emergency Service) he met in the miniatures for a variety of clients,
year-old boy. The 75 Anniversary of hospital while recovering from a including Major League baseball
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the Battle of Gettysburg was the last malaria attack. teams, the Franklin Mint, and the
great reunion of Civil War Veterans. After the war, Chuck went back to Ringling Brothers Circus Museum.
About 2,000 aged men gathered in the University of Alabama on the G.I. Some of his miniatures were even
the fields between the Peace Light Bill, and by the time he graduated in displayed in the Knoxville World’s
Memorial and Gettysburg College. 1949, he had a job waiting for him in Fair.
Caldwell was there to meet with Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The city had Caldwell’s story is a fascinating
as many as he could and ask them only been recently loosening its secret one about an ordinary man who has
about the Civil War. To mark the status to allow the public more access been a part of so many extraordinary
occasion, he had an autograph to the place where the first atom events in history. Rada’s narrative,
book filled with pictures of him bomb was developed. based mainly on interviews with
with the Civil War Veterans and Chuck made displays and Caldwell and a review of his
their autographs, Civil War units, drawings for the newly formed personal papers, captures the story
and hometowns. He even has the Museum of Atomic Energy. He perfectly.
autographs of the men who turned worked there about a year, until Midwest Book Review called
Charles “Chuck” Caldwell has out to be the last-surviving Union he was recalled to service for the Rada “a writer of considerable and
talked with Civil War soldiers, and Confederate Veterans. Korean War. He didn’t have to fight deftly expressed storytelling talent.”
fought against the Japanese in WWII, Born in Princeton, Illinois, in in this war. When he returned home, Rada is the author of six
and chased mushroom clouds after 1923, Chuck spent most of his youth he decided to switch jobs. He took a historical fiction novels and nine
atomic bomb explosions. Now growing up in Orrville, Ohio. A job doing technical drawings for one non-fiction history books, including
ninety-two years old, he had become Crimson Tide fan (still to this day), of the plants in Oak Ridge. No North, No South…: The Grand
part of the history that he loves so he was in his freshman year at the He spent the summers of 1957 Reunion at the 50th Anniversary
much. University of Alabama in 1941 when and 1958 at the Nevada Test Site, of the Battle of Gettysburg and
His story is now the focus of a the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. setting up sensors in fake towns in Battlefield Angels: The Daughters
fascinating new biography by The He joined the Marines and was the desert. When an atom bomb was of Charity Work as Civil War
Catoctin Banner’s contributing sent to Parris Island for training in detonated, he was part of the teams Nurses. He also won a first-place
editor James Rada, Jr. Clay Soldiers: January 1942. that would go back into those towns award for local column writing
One Marine’s Story of War, Art, & During WWII, he served in to try and find any of the fissionable from the Maryland-Delaware-DC
Atomic Energy takes the reader on a the Pacific Theater and fought at material that they had set up for the Press Association in May, 2016. The
journey from the Civil War to the age Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Guam. test. award was for his “Looking Back”
of the atom bomb and back again as He received a Purple Heart for “I bet I am one of the few people column that runs monthly in the
it follows Caldwell’s adventures in life. wounds he received at Guadalcanal. still around who has actually been Cumberland Times-News.
Chuck first came to Gettysburg, That is also where he contracted malaria. under an atomic explosion,” Chuck Clay Soldiers retails for $19.95
Pennsylvania in 1936 on a family At the end of the war, he married said. and is available at local bookstores,
vacation and then again in 1938 to Jacqueline Murphy, a WAVE In the early 1960s, Chuck online retailers, and his website at
attend the 75 anniversary of the (Women Accepted for Volunteer became a full-time artist, sculpting www.jamesrada.com.
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BOLLINGER HOMES, LLC
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Email to: [email protected]
We specialize in... Custom Home Builder & Remodeler Anne Higgins to be Featured
• Additions
Custom Homes & • Garages Poet at “Catoctin Voices”
Remodeling • Patios Author and teacher, Anne Higgins, will be the featured poet at “Catoctin
Bollinger Homes, LLC have been building custom homes, Voices” evening of poetry on Friday, June 17, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., at The
Creeger House, located at 11 N. Church Street in Thurmont.
building additions and remodeling for over 20 years in • Decks Higgins teaches at Mount Saint Mary’s University and is a member of the
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. • Concrete Walks Daughters of Charity. On several occasions, her poetry has been featured on
Garrison’s Keillor’s NPR radio program, The Writer’s Almanac. Higgins has
• Siding & Rooing had about one hundred poems published in a variety of small magazines. Five
full-length books of her poetry and three chapbooks have been published to
Call for a FREE ESTIMATE! include: At the Year’s Elbow, Mellen Poetry Press 2000; Scattered Showers
in a Clear Sky, Plain View Press 2007; Pick It Up and Read, Finishing Line
Phone 301.447.6917 Press, 2008; How the Hand Behaves, Finishing Line Press, 2009; Digging
Fax 301.447.2704 for God, Wipf and Stock, 2010; Vexed Questions, Aldrich Press, 2013;
Reconnaissance, Texture Press, 2014; and Life List, Finishing Line Press,
1 Creamery Way 2016.
The public is invited to hear this local treasure of a poet! For more
Emmitsburg, MD 21727 information, call 301-418-3375.
rts & ntertainment Bring Your Creative Side to Light
New Biography of Moves from the Civil War
to WWII into the Age of Nuclear Energy
Battle of Gettysburg as a fourteen- Emergency Service) he met in the miniatures for a variety of clients,
year-old boy. The 75 Anniversary of hospital while recovering from a including Major League baseball
th
the Battle of Gettysburg was the last malaria attack. teams, the Franklin Mint, and the
great reunion of Civil War Veterans. After the war, Chuck went back to Ringling Brothers Circus Museum.
About 2,000 aged men gathered in the University of Alabama on the G.I. Some of his miniatures were even
the fields between the Peace Light Bill, and by the time he graduated in displayed in the Knoxville World’s
Memorial and Gettysburg College. 1949, he had a job waiting for him in Fair.
Caldwell was there to meet with Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The city had Caldwell’s story is a fascinating
as many as he could and ask them only been recently loosening its secret one about an ordinary man who has
about the Civil War. To mark the status to allow the public more access been a part of so many extraordinary
occasion, he had an autograph to the place where the first atom events in history. Rada’s narrative,
book filled with pictures of him bomb was developed. based mainly on interviews with
with the Civil War Veterans and Chuck made displays and Caldwell and a review of his
their autographs, Civil War units, drawings for the newly formed personal papers, captures the story
and hometowns. He even has the Museum of Atomic Energy. He perfectly.
autographs of the men who turned worked there about a year, until Midwest Book Review called
Charles “Chuck” Caldwell has out to be the last-surviving Union he was recalled to service for the Rada “a writer of considerable and
talked with Civil War soldiers, and Confederate Veterans. Korean War. He didn’t have to fight deftly expressed storytelling talent.”
fought against the Japanese in WWII, Born in Princeton, Illinois, in in this war. When he returned home, Rada is the author of six
and chased mushroom clouds after 1923, Chuck spent most of his youth he decided to switch jobs. He took a historical fiction novels and nine
atomic bomb explosions. Now growing up in Orrville, Ohio. A job doing technical drawings for one non-fiction history books, including
ninety-two years old, he had become Crimson Tide fan (still to this day), of the plants in Oak Ridge. No North, No South…: The Grand
part of the history that he loves so he was in his freshman year at the He spent the summers of 1957 Reunion at the 50th Anniversary
much. University of Alabama in 1941 when and 1958 at the Nevada Test Site, of the Battle of Gettysburg and
His story is now the focus of a the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. setting up sensors in fake towns in Battlefield Angels: The Daughters
fascinating new biography by The He joined the Marines and was the desert. When an atom bomb was of Charity Work as Civil War
Catoctin Banner’s contributing sent to Parris Island for training in detonated, he was part of the teams Nurses. He also won a first-place
editor James Rada, Jr. Clay Soldiers: January 1942. that would go back into those towns award for local column writing
One Marine’s Story of War, Art, & During WWII, he served in to try and find any of the fissionable from the Maryland-Delaware-DC
Atomic Energy takes the reader on a the Pacific Theater and fought at material that they had set up for the Press Association in May, 2016. The
journey from the Civil War to the age Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Guam. test. award was for his “Looking Back”
of the atom bomb and back again as He received a Purple Heart for “I bet I am one of the few people column that runs monthly in the
it follows Caldwell’s adventures in life. wounds he received at Guadalcanal. still around who has actually been Cumberland Times-News.
Chuck first came to Gettysburg, That is also where he contracted malaria. under an atomic explosion,” Chuck Clay Soldiers retails for $19.95
Pennsylvania in 1936 on a family At the end of the war, he married said. and is available at local bookstores,
vacation and then again in 1938 to Jacqueline Murphy, a WAVE In the early 1960s, Chuck online retailers, and his website at
attend the 75 anniversary of the (Women Accepted for Volunteer became a full-time artist, sculpting www.jamesrada.com.
th
BOLLINGER HOMES, LLC
BOLLINGER HOMES, LLC Share Your Creative Side
Email to: [email protected]
We specialize in... Custom Home Builder & Remodeler Anne Higgins to be Featured
• Additions
Custom Homes & • Garages Poet at “Catoctin Voices”
Remodeling • Patios Author and teacher, Anne Higgins, will be the featured poet at “Catoctin
Bollinger Homes, LLC have been building custom homes, Voices” evening of poetry on Friday, June 17, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., at The
Creeger House, located at 11 N. Church Street in Thurmont.
building additions and remodeling for over 20 years in • Decks Higgins teaches at Mount Saint Mary’s University and is a member of the
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. • Concrete Walks Daughters of Charity. On several occasions, her poetry has been featured on
Garrison’s Keillor’s NPR radio program, The Writer’s Almanac. Higgins has
• Siding & Rooing had about one hundred poems published in a variety of small magazines. Five
full-length books of her poetry and three chapbooks have been published to
Call for a FREE ESTIMATE! include: At the Year’s Elbow, Mellen Poetry Press 2000; Scattered Showers
in a Clear Sky, Plain View Press 2007; Pick It Up and Read, Finishing Line
Phone 301.447.6917 Press, 2008; How the Hand Behaves, Finishing Line Press, 2009; Digging
Fax 301.447.2704 for God, Wipf and Stock, 2010; Vexed Questions, Aldrich Press, 2013;
Reconnaissance, Texture Press, 2014; and Life List, Finishing Line Press,
1 Creamery Way 2016.
The public is invited to hear this local treasure of a poet! For more
Emmitsburg, MD 21727 information, call 301-418-3375.
