As alluded to previously, way back in the past century I got talked into joining the high school drama club. I was in two or three plays, and I had a great time doing them. The Proscenium Circus, as it was called, was the brainchild of an English teacher at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts. His name is Ted Buswick. His wife Judy had been my eighth grade English teacher. She cured me of spelling hump day “Wendesday,” and she was approving when she caught me reading Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s funny how memories like those stick.
Judy and Ted have written Slate of Hand, Stone for Fine Art & Folk Art; which is, as the author of the forward says, “so timely and fills such a gap, why has nothing of the sort been previously undertaken?” Having taken a lot of art history classes in college I really enjoy Slate of Hand. I’m particularly impressed by the work of Ivor Richards, and everything in the chapter called “Stacked Sculpture.”
After teaching for fifteen years, Ted quit the profession in 1982 to pursue another career, but his influence as an exceptional teacher and drama coach lives on in myself, my sisters Jean and Marianne, and many, many others. There’s a short written interview with Ted at this link.
No, I didn’t attend the signing. Ted had sent a note to Noreen and myself, and I ordered the book online. I had lunch with Ted in downtown Boston back in late ’03. He looked great!
“Eat, Papa, EAT! Nobody wants to see a skinny Santa!” Just joshing 😉 Love the beard.
Strange but true: when I was working at MIT (around 1983), I had to call a computer place for software or some such. The guy on the other end said, “Hello, Ted Buswick speaking!” I was floored! but too shy to let on that I knew him. He looks truly happy at what he is doing now.
Did you go this signing?