Tuesday, October 28, 2003

By: Kenneth Luck, PR Intern

WILMINGTON, NC - Randall Library at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington is showcasing, “The Power of Place: Hamlin Garland’s Iowa” a photographic essay and book exhibition through Dec. 8.

The photographic essay includes the fine art photography of Jon Morris from St. Paul, Minn. Morris has been a commercial/fine art photographer for the last decade, after many years of owning and operating a Twin Cities advertising agency. Kurt Meyer, a native of Mitchell County, Iowa, and Jon Morris, his photographer-colleague, roamed the county searching for places that corresponded with text drawn from Hamlin Garland’s writings.

Hamlin Garland is perhaps best remembered for his short stories and his autobiographical book, Middle Border. During his eighty years Garland was intimately involved with major literary, social and artistic movements in American culture. He was a Pulitzer prize-winning author of over 40 books, a campaigner for more humane treatment of Native Americans and a proponent of impressionism in art. Garland was also an advocate of literary and cultural elitism.

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For more information on the exhibit contact Beth Roberts in Randall Library at 910/962-3270. For information on Hamlin Garland contact Keith Newlin in the UNCW English Department at 910/962-3615.