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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