{"id":55175,"date":"2014-04-28T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=55175"},"modified":"2014-04-27T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T14:08:12","slug":"local-author-james-longstaff-to-speak-at-the-cazenovia-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=55175","title":{"rendered":"Local author James Longstaff to speak at the Cazenovia Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/James_F_Longstaff_BW_RGB-for-web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55176\" alt=\"James_F_Longstaff_BW_RGB for web\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/James_F_Longstaff_BW_RGB-for-web.jpg?resize=226%2C277\" width=\"226\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/James_F_Longstaff_BW_RGB-for-web.jpg?w=226&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/James_F_Longstaff_BW_RGB-for-web.jpg?resize=122%2C150&amp;ssl=1 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 April 2014) All are invited to join local author James Longstaff in the Cazenovia Public Library Community Room on\u00a0Thursday, May 1\u00a0at7 p.m.\u00a0as he shares his debut book\u00a0Wapsipinicon\/ Stories and Poems.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Wapsipinicon, Longstaff takes his readers from the Kona Coast of Hawaii to St. Petersburg, Russia, by way of America\u2019s Upper Midwest, Chicago, the Great Lakes, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>On fishing boats, sailboats, motorcycles, forgotten trains, jazz riffs, and trout streams, his stories and poems explore the country between adolescence and last chances.<\/p>\n<p>Among this collection is work nominated for a Pushcart Prize for Short Fiction and an Award Poem recognition from\u00a0Plainsongsmagazine.<\/p>\n<p>Currently a 17-year resident of the Cazenovia area, Longstaff was born and raised near the Wapsipinicon River in Eastern Iowa.\u00a0 His early years were spent as a radio and television announcer and as a producer\/director in Minneapolis and Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>As an advertising writer and producer in Minneapolis, he remembers with special fondness the filming of television commercials with George Burns. He has also been an adjunct professor at the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and is married to Professor Patricia Longstaff also of the Newhouse School.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of\u00a0Wapsipinicon\/Stories and Poems\u00a0will be available for purchase and signing at the event.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this or other events at the Cazenovia Public Library, call 655-9322 or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 April 2014) All are invited to join local author James Longstaff in the Cazenovia Public Library Community Room on\u00a0Thursday, May 1\u00a0at7 p.m.\u00a0as he shares his debut book\u00a0Wapsipinicon\/ Stories and Poems. In\u00a0Wapsipinicon, Longstaff takes his readers from the Kona Coast of Hawaii to St. Petersburg, Russia, by way of America\u2019s Upper Midwest, Chicago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-elV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}