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The 2008 Tinicum Arts Festival will have an exciting array of artists, entertainers, and crafts people and this year features a special focus on the books of talented local authors.
All weekend
A SPECIAL ATTRACTION celebrating local history: a pictorial history book on Tinicum Township makes its debut.
PATRICIA VALENTINE WHITACRE and RICHARD A. PLANK will be at the Festival all weekend with copies of their newly released book Tinicum Township, Bucks County, from the Images of America Series published by Arcadia Publishing. The book contains over 200 vintage photographs which come alive through the perceptive use of often-times humorous anecdotes collected from local residents.
At the AUTHORS’ TABLE: A Tinicum Arts Festival tradition. Over the two days of the Festival ten celebrated local authors and illustrators will be available to meet you and sign their books. They will sign in pairs, each pair for two hours.
Sat. July 12
11 am – 1 pm:
CURT HERR, professor of Gothic and Victorian Popular Fiction at Kutztown University, and author of the Critical Edition of the first Vampire novel in the English language: Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood.
STEVEN KROLL, author of 90 books for children, including Jungle Bullies and the newly published NY Times best-selling, The Biggest Easter Basket Ever, fourth in the series that began with The Biggest Pumpkin Ever.
1 pm – 3 pm:
RICHARD EGIELSKI, distinguished author and illustrator of many children’s books and recipient of the 1987 Caldecott Medal for the illustrations in Hey, Al!
MARIE LAMBA, author of the humorous young adult novel, What I Meant. . . , set in Doylestown and Philly and called by Publishers Weekly “an impressive debut.”
3 pm – 5 pm:
MICHELE MACK, author of the whacky middle-grade fantasy, Henry Fickle and the Secret Laboratory, the first in a three-book series.
KAY WINTERS, former elementary supervisor in the Palisades school district and author of 14 children’s books, including My Teacher for President, Voices of Ancient Egypt, and the newly published Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak.
Sun. July 13
12 noon – 2 pm:
LEE HARPER, award-winning painter, an artist in residence for the Council Rock School District, and illustrator of the wonderfully funny picture book, Woolbur by Leslie Helakoski.
WILL RIVINUS, author and publisher of books about Bucks County, including the newly released Barns of Bucks County, and recipient of the 2006 Achievement Award from the Solebury Township Historical Society.
2 pm – 4 pm:
DEREK FELL, distinguished, award-winning author and photographer of numerous, lavishly illustrated books on gardening and travel, among them Beautiful Bucks County and the newly published Monet’s Garden.
LYNDA GENE RYMOND, author of the picture books The Village of Basketeers and the recent Oscar and the Mooncats.
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