Episode 2243: John E. Keegan author of "Clearwater Summer" and "Orphaned" - a podcast by Ric Bratton

John E. Keegan author of CLEARWATER SUMMER and ORPHANEDCLEARWATER SUMMER It's 1959 in the town of Clearwater, there are no cell phones or laptops. Eisenhower is President and the country is at peace. Or is it? Three seemingly aimless teenagers have just graduated from high school. A kid from the wrong side of town Wellesley Baker, wise guy Taylor Clark, and the story's narrator Will Bradford. Laddie Tilford is the deaf mute who patrols the town from his bike. It's a summer vacation that ends in two ugly deaths and a climactic trial.ORPHANED, Global Summit House: A body shop guy, Dean Hostler, learns of an auction for thoroughbred horses at Longacres, and for a surprise birthday gift for his son Ricky who is afflicted with an Attention Deficit Disorder he wins the bid for a 2-year old filly the family can't afford. When Lorraine learns that he has pawned the title to the Nashua trailer which is their home, she slams the door on Dean's hand as well as on their marriage.NO MORE BEDS, a children's book (not for commercial sale) that was prompted by John Keegan but illustrated and imagined by his two grandkids Maya and Emma, who were eight years old at the time and who read the story and autographed the books they distributed to a roomful of doctors and staff at Seattle Children's Hospital's celebration dinner for obtaining Seattle City Council approval for a vastly enlarged hospital.AUTHOR BIO: Keegan is a native of Spokane, Washington and a graduate of Gonzaga University, where he also studied abroad in the Gonzaga-in-Florence program boarding with an Italian roommate, served as student body president, and then graduated from Harvard Law School. He has combined his mid-life writing career with his lawyering for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Washington D.C., the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Seattle and the law firms Perkins Coie and Davis Wright Tremaine. He is married to Nancy Jo Biddle with whom he and their rescue dog Scout wander and walk multiple times a day in Seattle and at Loon Lake. And, yes, together they have four adult children, three of whom are lawyers, and three of whom are also married to lawyers and also six grandchilren. Son David escaped to become the CEO of Bamboo Hardwoods, an international company.https://www.amazon.com/John-E.-Keegan/e/B001K8D4KEhttp://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/gshouse0723.mp3    

Further episodes of This Week in America with Ric Bratton

Further podcasts by Ric Bratton

Website of Ric Bratton