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.......World War II... American History, America in the 1800's.... Mental Illness, and the History of Mental Illness... Poetry of the Sea, Cape Cod Poetry... Russian Theatre Art ... HAUNTED PALACE, the abandoned mental asylum at Danvers, Mass. ... Alexander Longfellow, the Explorer... Public Health Pioneers ... living American artists... and new American Fiction

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.......Michael Ramseur ... Richard Shain Cohen ... Arthur H. Barnes ... Avram Balazovsky ... William Stock Rathbun ... J. Stiles Askew ... Michael Mosier ... Dr. Elton Kessel ... and Dicho Ilunga

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LOVING ENEMIES, the moving World War II Japanese war story, by Arthur H. BARNES— and his memorial book on the U.S.S. ZELLARS now under way;

HAUNTED PALACE, the first and most comprehensive history of the Danvers Asylum, by Michael RAMSEUR, and his award-winning historical fantasy THE SPIRIT OF ANTOINETTE;

THE FORGOTTEN LONGFELLOW, an unknown American explorer of our boundaries and the Civil War South, by Richard Shain COHEN: — and his book on health care pioneer Morris Cohen's Boston Clinic, HEALING AFTER DARK, now under way;

A PUBLIC HEALTH ODYSSEY, the memoir of Elton KESSEL, pioneer for women's reproductive freedom in the war against poverty;

BALAZOVSKY —introducing to the West for the first time, the Russian art of a contemporary of Chagall, a practitioner of Theatre Art who, unlike Chagall, never left his homeland;

HERE AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA, by J. Stiles ASKEW;A book of POETRY of Cape Cod and Poetry of the Sea, with photographs by Cape photographers:

AN ART ODYSSEYnow under way — by American artist William Stock Rathbun, a guided tour of the art of the world for students

...and also under way: a memoir on addiction and recovery by Michael Mosier, and a novel based on life in Zaire/Congo and Rwanda by Dicho Ilunga

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Books by Artist and New England historian, Michael Ramseur:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Ramseur is an artist represented on GalleryArtship.com

EHAUNTED PALACE: Danvers Asylum as Art and History

Ramseur's 25-year research resulted in the most comprehenhsive hoistory of the principle of humane treatment for the mentally ill in America, and the beautiful, now-demolished Massachusetts State Hospital.

With original art & archival photographs: 250 pages of startling medical, psychiatric, and historical facts, family memoirs, heartbreaking stories, poetry, fiction, nostalgic images and memoirs. from a dozen contributors — including respected authors and authorities in the field. Includes interviews with ex- staff, patients, and administrators... You are about to enter the portals of one of the nation's most beautiful and tragic repositories of human history from a dark chapter of our collective past.

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THE SPIRIT OF ANTOINETTE

Winner of two book awards in 2009...Ramseur's fantastic voyage through the underworld of New England's historical past-- with main characters drawn from his research as well as from his imagination, characters who tell their stories of the poverty of the old mill towns and the brutal realities of the asylum of the early 1900's. This book ends in a whirlwind of madness which will haunt your dreams!

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A PUBLIC HEALTH ODYSSEY:

...........................................My Life in Service and Research, by Dr. Elton Kessel

A fascinating look into the life and mind of a pioneer : Complete with stories about his 1950's tenure as Public Health officer in India, followed by a full career in the quest for reproductive freedom for women, as a tool to stop the vicious wheel of childbearing =malnutrition=child mortality in the impoverished third world.

Lucid descriptions of scientific details,.. and shocking disclosures about episodes of foul-play politics by organizations seeking control in a controversial field. With photographs, references, index

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HERE at the EDGE of the SEA.

by J. Stiles Askew...........

A beautiful 67-page book of poetic reminiscence on growing up and maturing on Cape Cod — illustrated by 24 photographs, including vintage family photos, contributed by 5 talented artists including ARTSHIP's own Bob Alexander... A great read or gift for poetry-lovers and anyone who loves the seaside life

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BALAZOVSKY

ARTSHIP PUBLISHING and the Balazovsky Students Group collaborate to introduce to the West for the first time, this amazing painter -- a contemporary of Chagall's, influential in Russian Theatre art, a master of impressionism, semi-abstraction, and collage -- and hitherto unknown outside of Russia. Most of this art is as yet unexhibited and invisible — in the U.S.A.!

In English and Russian; 81 pages with 66 beautiful reproductions and photographs.

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LOVING ENEMIES: Barney and Myoko, Southern Japan: 1944-1946 ....by Arthur H. Barnes

.............a beautiful, action-packed novel -- drawn from personal experience-- set in wartime Japan...written by a man who was there. Those who served, those who are related to them, and those who know what a watershed in American history this war was, will be drawn deeply into this story of an American sailor in wartime Japan during perilous times. With maps, photographs.

ISBN # 0-9765975-6-8; 215 pages. Click on image to review this book

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......THE FORGOTTEN LONGFELLOW: Man in the Shadows

the Saga of Alexander Longfellow, Sr. by Richard Shain Cohen

...... a provocative biography of one of the country's first ...........explorer-topographers, the neglected brother of famous poet LONGFELLOW...

..........with humor, self-effacement, grace and touching affection, this man wrtote letters to his family, ..........drew maps and drawings, and lived the rough life as he expolored and charted the far reaches of ..........the Ameruican landscape, shook hads with presidents, sailed around the Horn, and toured the South ..........through the ruins of the Civil War... leaving us a rich legacy of documents to give us a rare picture of ..........America in the 1880's and in the drawing-rooms and country houses of Maine.

.......... .........265 pages, 55 illustrations: with maps, charts, photographs, drawings; preface, notes, index.

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The FOLLOWING books are currently IN PROCESS (click on images to see details on these book sites):

HEALING AFTER DARK: another memoir from a health care pioneer: the story of the first Boston after-hours clinic, by Morris B. Cohen, annotated with amusing and insightful private recollections by his son, Richard Shain Cohen...

IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY: THE U.S.S. ZELLARS, a stirring compendium of memories of and by the sailors who served on this ship sunk off the coast of Japan in 1945, by Arthur H. Barnes...

AN ART ODYSSEY: an original, exciting exploration of the meaning of art, for students from 12 to 18, from William Stock Rathbun, artist and teacher

...and "STAY TUNED", as they used to say on radio in the old days;

OTHERS are COMING later in 2010 !

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