Baylis Glascock

Barefoot Missouri Days (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Filled with Americana that is folksy, funny, and at times heartbreaking, Barefoot Missouri Days is filled with a sense of wonder and a wry wit as Baylis Glascock explains his bafflement with all things sexual and his equal confusion over racial, ethnic, and economic disparity, realities that he treats with sensitivity.

Filmmaker and editor, Glascock recalls, with vivid and almost cinematic clarity, the years of his childhood on the small family farm near Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain lived and wrote. Recounting the awe of nature, the joy of mischief, the pain of humiliation, and the strength of family bonds, Baylis brings small-town life into sharp and endearing focus.

Of his childhood and teen years in the post-World War II era of the Midwest, Baylis says it best himself: "This small farm in the center of the continent was the center of my father's world, as it had been for his father and grandfather. Land that had succored generations of my family. Land they had served, as it had served them. Clearing, planting, harvesting, fertilizing, always demanding toil. In good times, the land gave bountifully. A place to live in communion with nature. This communion, the very ground of their being. Understood deeply, but they had no words for it. As if, like the true name of God, it could not be spoken."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birchwood Press
• Seitenzahl: 187
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781737806509
• Artikelnr.: 63343762

Autorenporträt

"Baylis Glascock was born and raised on the family's farm in New London, Missouri, ten miles from Hannibal, where Mark Twain lived and wrote. It had been purchased by his great-grandfather in 1875 with proceeds from the Gold Rush. Baylis's stories are filled with Americana that is folksy, funny, and at times heartbreaking. With a sense of wonder and a wry wit, he explains his bafflement with all things sexual and his equal confusion over racial, ethnic, and economic disparity, realities that he treats with sensitivity. After two years at the the University of Missouri, Baylis moved to Los Angeles, where he took filmmaking courses at USC and worked for Walt Disney. Later he worked on numerous projects as a filmmaker, editor, and director alongside Robert Snyder, documenting Henry Miller and Buckminster Fuller, and he made his own films of artist Sister Corita. His experimental film of the Watts Towers is preserved by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences."