Patricia N. McAndrew
24 West Fourth Street
Bethlehem, PA 18015-1604
Phone: 610-866-6482 E-mail:
Born: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1947
Education: B.A. History, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, June 1968
Languages: English, Danish and French
ACTIVITIES AND EMPLOYMENT
2007-2009
Project Manager and chief researcher/editor/publisher for subsidized publishing venture,
A Living Legacy: Architecture of A.W. Leh. Translated Erik Aschengreen’s Master,
a biography of Danish choreographer Harald Lander.
2005
Established Moon Trail Books, LLC, a small publishing firm focusing on quality,
limited-run books. First two publications dealt with aspects of the American Civil War.
“Isn’t This Glorious!”: The 15th, 19th and 20th Massachusetts Infantry
Regiments at Gettysburg’s Copse of Trees, by Edwin R. Root and Jeffrey D. Stocker
won a literary award as best new book on Gettysburg for 2006. See website
www.moontrailbks.com.
Edited (2006), Bethlehem Boy, with Carolyn Abel, the Civil War letters and diary of Moravian soldier Sgt. James A. Peifer, of the 46th Pennsylvania Infantry. In 2007, republished Joan Campion’s book Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A City of Music.
In 2005 was one of the guests of honor at a Copenhagen Symposium addressing the question of how to preserve the ballet legacy of August Bournonville for future generations.
2001-Present
Part-time Coordinator of Volunteers and an Adjunct Curator at Lehigh University Art
Galleries since 1998. Guest Curator in April 2004 for LUAG exhibition, Once Upon a
Time in Havana Harbor: The USS Maine. Numerous public speaking engagements,
including pre-show lectures for Guest Artist series at Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh
University; First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem, PA lecture series; Salem Lutheran
Church Civil War Studies Group, Bethlehem, PA; Historic Bethlehem Partnership
Elderhostel programs. An active member of the Civil War Round Table of Eastern
Pennsylvania, Inc. Former Board Member and volunteer Acting Executive Director of
Ballet Guild (2006) of the Lehigh Valley, Inc. (Pennsylvania Youth Ballet).
2001
Freelance writer, lecturer and arts management consultant. President of the Stephen Vincent Benét Society; board member of Sun Inn Preservation Association, Inc. Served 1980-2006 on the Advisory Board of scholarly journal, Dance Chronicle.
2000
Helped to found and to organize programming for the Stephen Vincent Benét
Society, Inc. Began research for two Civil War writing projects and prepared for publication a translation of August Bournonville's 1841 Letters from France and Italy. Served as consultant for the New York City Ballet's Bournonville Symposium. Served as a member of the President’s Commission on the Future, Moravian College.
1999
Organized an evening of readings from Benét's John Brown's Body, with guest
reader James Earl Jones, for the benefit of the Civil War Library and Museum
of Philadelphia. Benét television documentary written by McAndrew named Best Documentary of 1999 Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters.
1998
Coordinated a year-long series of events comprising the Stephen Vincent Benét Centennial celebration; this included writing and co-producing a TV documentary
Out of American Earth: The Story of Stephen Vincent Benét, for Lehigh Valley PBS.
1997
Freelance writer, lecturer and arts management consultant. Co-founded the
Stephen Vincent Benét Centennial Committee.
1996
Resigned position as general manager of Ballet Guild of Lehigh Valley, Inc. to
return to historical research and writing; served for a season as BGLV's
Production Manager.
1983-96
General Manager of Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley, Inc., a regional dance company and pre-professional academy. 1994 & 1995, lectured on Dance History for Briansky
Saratoga Ballet Center summer program at Skidmore College.
1984
Recipient of first Dance Writers' Fellowship from Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts; returned to Copenhagen to do further research on Bournonville.
1980-82
Writer, lecturer, translator; guest panelist for Dance Critics Association
Conference and the American Bournonville Festival in Chicago; served
as part-time manager of Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley, Inc.
1979
Translation of Bournonville's three-volume My Theatre Life published
by Wesleyan University Press. Served as Public Relations Director for the
Northeast Regional Ballet Festival held at Allentown, PA; taught classes
on Bournonville style and technique at this festival.
1973-79
Translated and annotated My Theatre Life, while residing in Pennsylvania.
Chaired the Bournonville Panel for the Congress on Research in Dance Conference at Philadelphia, 1976.
1969-72
Lived mainly in Denmark translating and annotating Bournonville's autobiography,
My Theatre Life [Mit Theaterliv].
1968-69
Lived in Copenhagen, Denmark as a Fulbright scholar; continued research on topic
of Moravian College honors thesis, "The Influence of Danish Nationalism on the
Ballets of August Bournonville."
1968
Graduated from Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, with a B.A. in History.
Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship as an undergraduate.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2010
Author Ken Raniere chosen as Individual Achievement recipient of City of Allentown’s Arts Ovation Award for A Living Legacy: Architecture of A.W. Leh, published by McAndrew in 2009.
1999
Recipient of the City of Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission award for Individual
Achievement in the Arts. Out of American Earth: The Story of Stephen Vincent Benét
named best Documentary of 1999 by the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters.
IN PREPARATION
May 2010
Will publish An Awakening Heart: A Novel of the Moravians in Early America, by Barbara Dowd Wright.
The Old Soldier Goes Fishing: Collected Sketches of Forest, Field and Stream. 23 stories from The New York Times (1887-93) by Frank Wilkeson. Researching a book on the Civil War experiences of journalist Samuel Wilkeson, Jr. and his sons Bayard (a hero of Gettysburg) and Frank (well-known Civil War memoirist and journalist).
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