Mystery and Romance in the Moonlight

Laura Lonshein Ludwig

Description

This book is a delightful selection of short stories and poetry. A comic science fiction work is included. Mystery and romance is in each story and these stories are written from the 18th century to the present. A film producer would find a fascinating material in this book to contact the author with interest in it.

Sujets

• Science Fiction
• Mystery
• Moonlight
• Romance
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 23 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781669847472
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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MYSTERY AND ROMANCE IN THE MOONLIGHT
Laura Lonshein Ludwig

Copyright © 2022 by Laura Lonshein Ludwig.
Library of Congress Control Number:
2022918089
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-6698-4749-6

Softcover
978-1-6698-4748-9

eBook
978-1-6698-4747-2
 
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Rev. date: 10/17/2022
 
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Biographical Note On Laura Lonshein Ludwig
POETRY
California Highway
The Love Of My Grandmothers
The Cornfield Farmer In The Painting
A Chased Beauty
Jazz In The Golden Age
The Life Of A Writer
The Lost Treasure
The Mother’s Side Of My Family
Vacation In Italy
The Garden
A Family Conversation At Dinner
Thoughts Of Summers On Winter Nights
An English Lord In The Seventeenth Century
For 2022
SHORT STORIES
To The Mountain House
The Antique Dealer
The Franklin Boarding House
Visiting Cousin Elizabeth
Love Found In New York
Shakespeare’s Childhood Friend
The Stolen Chest Of Money By The Sea
The Lady Escapes To Rio De Janeiro
The Happy Memories Of Nights In Brooklyn
PLAYS
A Family Of Painters In America
When The Martians Landed In America
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON LAURA LONSHEIN LUDWIG
Ms. Ludwig is listed in Who’s Who in the World . She is a screenwriter, actress, poet, director for television and radio, and producer of a top-rated television show Earth Is Not on Tape , featuring the artists of New York—both the rising stars and those renowned stars—who have produced the greatest contributions to American art from The Joe Franklin’s Memory Lane show host, Joe Franklin, who brought the actors and singers we have enjoyed and learned so much from now be seen on the Turner Classic Movies station and other stations, bringing our greatest heritage to us in film and stage. The legendary comic Prof. Irwin Corey appeared on Laura’s television show and enjoyed Broadway onstage in the play Sly Fox to a film produced by Woody Allen and countless other stages, presenting his hilarious comedy. Al Lewis, legendary comic actor enjoyed in the Car 54, Where Are You? television series and movie, appeared while running for governor in the state of New York, and Bianca Jagger appeared on Ms. Ludwig’s show during the Kosovo crisis to alert the audience about the conditions there. She is remembered as the wife of Mick Jagger, rock-and-roll legend years ago. She offers her warmth and concern as an activist, following in the tradition of community television on BCAT. Laura remained true to the concerns of her viewers, with a Christmas concert at the Trinity church, the New York Poetry Circuit, comics, opera, and ballet.
Laura presented other great hosts to talk about the work they produced, such as the host and producer of The Light Show , an arts and music show, on WBAI radio 99.5 FM in New York City. Laura’s goal was to create the type of television that would bring the standards back up to the great television and movies she loved in the best years of television production for today’s audience.
Laura’s TV show ran from 1994 to 2002 until she moved to Upstate New York. Ms. Ludwig is a recipient of four New York State Council of the Arts Awards from Poets & Writers while working with the Museum of Sound Recording, producing shows recorded on equipment used by legends in the music business and acquired by the president of the museum, Dan, who produced tapes from the shows. Some of Laura’s books can be found in the Mid-Manhattan Library, New York University Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, in libraries around the world, and in good book stores in Upstate New York and in San Francisco, California, in City Lights, and booksellers. All the books can be ordered at your local book publisher or online bookstore. Laura is the author of six books previously PUBLISHED by XLIBRIS. The books are ROBO SAPIENS; SOUNDS LIKE A PLOT; REFLECTIONS FOR THE RENAISSANCE ; THE HAUNTED HOUSE AND THE STOLEN GOLD, GULLIVER OF NEW YORK ; and TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, MEMORABLE PLAYS AND SHORT STORIES FOR THE SCREEN .

Laura was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Poetry by Seconds Glance magazine. Laura served on the staff of two literary magazines, the New Press Literary Quarterly and Medicinal Purposes . Reviews for her work continue to be inspiring. To mention some of the critiques on the book ROBO SAPIENS , legend in the arts and actor Al Lewis reviewed it with the following:
“Laura Lonshein Ludwig’s love for the earth and reverence for what is fair shine through her work. She pulls you in to that rate prism of reality which reflects back on your own bringing the inevitable ahahhh!”
Joe Franklin, of WOR radio and WBBR, said, “I think of Laura affectionately and respectfully as the first new superstar of the Millennium.”
And Dr. Joseph S. Salemi, who teaches in the Department of Humanities at New York University and the Classics Department of both Hunter and Brooklyn College, stated:
“Laura Lonshein Ludwig’s poems are excursions into complex thought and even more complex feelings, they are incantatory, dreamlike and multidimensional meditations which in their passionate intellectuality and articulate humanity come to grips with the frightening aspects of how we live now.”

Most recently, Laura ran a reading at the Inquiring Minds Bookstore, featuring the poetry of poets from Upstate New York and around the country, and presented her plays through the good work of fellow poets who also were actors, such as Ad Augeri, who also played the lead role in Laura’s televised comedies. Most of the plays and poetry in this book were recorded for the radio audience by the host of The Poetry Hour on WLPR FM, an Upstate New York radio show.
POETRY
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY
Laura Lonshein Ludwig
From the vast space
In California
Mountains
In the clear blue sky
A thin road to the future
Lone car on the road
Life is everywhere
Not a house in sight
 
Trees bend in anticipation
Sunlight on a dusty road
This is perfect freedom
Not knowing where you will go
This is a day in the last century
 
It is in every memory
Of a road
Without a person in sight
It is in nature
Talking to you
 
Sunlight splits into
Lines on the highway
The air is cool
In it the anticipation
Of the unexpected
 
The promise is in not knowing
The mountains look
Down upon you
There is nothing but the highway
And space
The freedom
Is in mankind not
Owning everything
 
Traveling down this highway
There is only one promise
That will always take you further
 
In the summer breeze
It is the thrill of anticipation
 
You feel as sensual
As a young girl
And this will be so
For a lifetime
THE LOVE OF MY GRANDMOTHERS
Laura Lonshein Ludwig (written on March 22, 2016)
Swimming to the shore
Of a myth
I understand those
Who swim in muddy water
And breathe heavily
Reaching the street
With no light
Where no one wishes
To see you succeed
 
The dream can slip
Through your fingers
Then there are friends
I will miss for a lifetime
They loved with a purpose, sincerity
 
To be loved with a pure love
The purest love
I return to the love of my grandmothers
 
In a moment
I am in an apartment
On the bottom floor
Of a house
My maternal grandmother lived in
 
She spoke Yiddish and English
In the bedroom, a dresser
With a box of face powder on it
And a string of imitation pearls
On the table, a radio
We listened to
 
Towel dried
After a soapy bath
She held me in her arms
I slept so soundly
There were no books on her shelves
Little formal education
A fear I could not understand
With all her heart
She wanted me to find my path
 
Both grandmothers bought art supplies
Pens and paper
 
Antiques and art books
Cluttered the apartment
My paternal grandmother
Was a teacher
She smiled proudly
At the remarks I made when she took me to the ballet
Living on a small pension
There was always money for new books
And art supplies
 
On my wedding day
At the party
She made to celebrate it
Her face warm with happiness; she held me close
That is the love I ache for, for a lifetime
THE CORNFIELD FARMER IN THE PAINTING
Laura Lonshein Ludwig
I was in the cornfield
My silky straight
Light brown hair
Hot against my head
 
My eyes closed
My eyes burned
From the strong sun
 
I was the determined farmer
To work till nightfall
A constant student
To life in the earth
Its nature
Changing always
For I must plant
And harvest to survive
 
I was the woman in that painting
I who stand before you
 
On a warm day, I will appear
To vis