Under the Heaven Tree

Author: William Bridges ISBN 1-58939-646-4 (Softcover) 182 pages In Under the Heaven Tree, journalist and poet William Bridges paints a rich picture of growing up in two Indiana towns, Franklin and Vincennes, from the 1930s through the 1950s. It is the story of an unusual family of artists, of a secret marriage, of hidden scandal, and the characters who once populated small towns, including the creator of the world's only six-person harmonica and a man who climbed the town monument to disarm the Civil War soldier. Most of all, it is a valentine to the writer's mother and father, and to a long-lost America. ABOUT THE AUTHOR William Bridges has been a foreign correspondent in Germany for United Press International, as well as day city editor of the Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal and senior copyeditor for the Free China Journal in Taiwan. Until his recent retirement, he was a professor of journalism and a writing teacher at Franklin College in Indiana as well as director of the Pu