Two New Books Available to Benefit the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum
The latest books from author James ‘Wil’ Mauch, founding president of the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum, are now available. Proceeds from the sale to benefit the friends of the Eric Sloane Museum.
Eric Sloane’s Simple Machines: A Boy, a Diary, and the Building of America. This charming and informative volume introduces readers young and old to simple machines and how they work. Wil modeled this volume after Eric Sloane’s 1962 classic Diary of An Early American Boy, Noah Blake: 1805, using Eric’s original characters, pen and ink illustrations, design, and font. New stories are told of how Noah, Rachel, Izaak, Mr. Beach, and Mr. Simon used simple machines throughout 1805 to help them accomplish many tasks. Hardbound, 126 pages. $21.95.
Symbols of American Spirit is presented in two parts. Using numerous photographs and illustrations, Wil explores the earliest history of the Eric Sloane Museum in part one. In part two, Wil presents the entire art collection through more than two-dozen full color gallery photographs. Wil’s informal and engaging writing style – supplemented with anecdotes and little known facts about how Sloane approached painting – feels more like a private tour of the collection than a formal treatment of the artwork. The result is at times a playful, at times a profound – but always a fascinating – look at the man, his museum, and his art. Hardbound, 140 pages in full color. $49.95
Either/both books are shipped free and include sales tax.
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Post Office Box 250
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. 17837