Willy Thorn

Ghost Dance (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A play in 3 acts, set in 189o in the western United States. The Christian Messiah reappears as a Native Paiute at the foot of the Sierra Mountains in Nevada. His message of nonviolence & peace draws tens of thousands of devotees & his spiritual circle dance reaches to the heavens. Dancers connect to lost loved ones & walk an enlightened path to resurrection & utopia. Fearing a united uprising in the west, the U.S. government targets several prominent Native leaders including Sitting Bull & Spotted Elk - & begins aggressive military action that culminates in assassinations & the massacre at Wounded Knee creek.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Willy Thorn
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463128527
• Artikelnr.: 72406892

Autorenporträt

Willy Thorn is a communications expert & artistic renaissance man. He is a journalist & copywriter, teacher, author & artist. He has lived many places, beginning with Milwaukee & Rome & Minnesota & central Wisconsin. Among his other homes are Washington DC & Baltimore, Chicago & the Twin Cities, St. Francis South Dakota, the Bay Area & Shanghai. He currently lives & works in Bangkok. Thorn has a Masters Degree in Journalism & has spent time as a Capitol Hill reporter & wire editor, sports writer, political columnist & arts critic. Other media endeavors include public relations campaigns, magazine feature writing, ghostwritten biographies & time on the radio as a DJ & on-air host, play-by-play sports announcer & music promoter. He has spent nearly a decade as a language specialist for Craft Worldwide & as a copywriter & creative for McCann Worldgroup. He currently works as senior copywriter at Quo Global branding agency in Bangkok. He has won awards at Cannes Lions & been recognized for sports writing & political columns, magazine features, theatre scripts, religious publications & photography. Thorn is also a photographer & classical oil painter, trained thru the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. His artistic c.v. includes photography gallery shows; sculpting in Mamallapuram, India; concrete statuary at Wat Xieng Mouane, in Luang Prabang, Laos; and flower petal mosaics in Cagli, Italy. He is a Buddhist meditation instructor; trained thru Thailand's renowned Willpower Institute. And he was even the rare foreigner to complete the entire six month course in spoken & written Thai. He currently sits as an advisor on the institute's English Foreign Language subcommittee where he translates books, helps develop outreach programs & occasionally lectures. He proudly notes a Master's Degree from Marquette University & books in both Washington's Library of Congress & the Vatican Archives in Rome. His catalog is varied & he has written extensively about a number of subjects including sports, politics, religion, Buddhist philosophy & Asian history & art. One of his largest endeavors was documenting & cataloguing several hundred temples in Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Yangon, Vientiane & Kuala Lumpur. His catalog is available thru the following distributors: Am...