![]() The band achieved moderate success with their second studio album, Discovering the Waterfront, which was nominated for a Juno Award and reached No. 34 on the Billboard 200 charts, with the following two albums charting at similar positions. In September 2012, the band had announced that Neil Boshart had been fired and would be replaced by Paul Marc Rousseau, who also joined Billy Hamilton on backing vocals. Their lineup had remained unchanged for eleven years since December 2001, consisting of lead vocalist Shane Told, lead guitarist Neil Boshart, rhythm guitarist Josh Bradford, bassist Billy Hamilton, and drummer Paul Koehler. They have released a total of 11 studio albums, seven EPs, a compilation album and a live DVD/CD. Their band name is a reference to the famous children's author Shel Silverstein, whom the band had admired and whose work they had read as children. s t iː n/) is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario, formed in 2000. Watch my site for upcoming author events.Silverstein ( / ˈ s ɪ l. My husband and I live near Boston and are the parents of two children. in History and work at a museum that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. From 2008 to 2017, I directed the Chautauqua Writers' Center, which sponsors creative writing workshops and author programs at the Chautauqua Institution. I have taught at Grub Street, Inc., consulted with individual writers, and worked with young adults as a tutor and at the Books of Hope literacy empowerment program. #Silverstein author plusMy poems have been posted at Boston City Hall and on a poetry trail at Edmands Park in Newton, Massachusetts, plus published in literary journals including Blackbird. I also write poetry and creative non-fiction. My articles have appeared in Health magazine, Prevention, Runner's World, American Heritage, and the Boston Globe. For 13 years I worked as a food writer at the Boston Herald, where I informed readers about the city’s chefs, restaurants, and food trends. A White House Garden Cookbook(Red Rock Press), The Boston Chef’s Table(Globe Pequot Press), and The New England Soup Factory Cookbook, co-authored with Chef Marjorie Druker (Thomas Nelson), a top seller on Amazon. It chronicles my experiences as a white child bused to predominantly African American schools in the 1970s under a court desegregation order in Richmond. I have spoken about this experience to educational groups around the country, participated in dialogues about race, and interviewed others about their experiences during busing. My memoir White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation (University of Georgia Press) was released in paperback in 2013. The book was a finalist in the FOREWARD Indies Book Awards in 2018. The story takes you across racial lines to follow the lives of two women whose destinies become perilously intertwined. Though the story is set in the past, their struggles can teach about social justice today. I am also the author of the historical novel Secrets in a House Divided(Mercer University Press), set in Richmond as Civil War battles encircle the city. Its attractions - vaudeville, arcade games, daredevil acts, a carousel and other rides, and a ballroom that presented big bands - chronicle popular entertainment during the first part of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() The park opened in 1897 to entertain thrill-seekers and fun-lovers on the banks of the Charles River. My newest book, Norumbega Park and the Totem Pole Ballroom(Arcadia Publishing), co-authored with Sara Leavitt Goldberg, tells the colorful history of an amusement park in Newton, Massachusetts. Welcome! I am the Boston-based author of six published books and a blogger about historic recipes at . I have wanted to write ever since I published the "Doggie Gazette," a newspaper of neighborhood canine news, when I was in elementary school in Richmond, Virginia. ![]()
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