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Nancy Bondurant Jones is a former teacher with Rockingham County schools named to Who's Who In American Education, 1989-1990. She is also a writer whose dozen books center on local history. Three books were nominated for the Library of Virginia's Outstanding Non-fiction Awards: Rooted on Bluestone Hill: A History of James Madison University; Called to Care: A History of the Nursing Program at Rockingham Memorial Hospital; and Ageless Legacy: A History of Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community.
After retirement from 29 years in the classroom, Mrs. Jones served for eight years as principal writer for Dr. Ronald E. Carrier, President Emeritus of James Madison University. She wrote a weekly column for the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg for 12 years that added personal remembrances to historic references about Valley residents and events. Several national publications also featured her work. Additionally, she scripted several shows for the local PBS-TV station and created a popular radio series with teacher guides used in a number of Rockingham County elementary schools during the 1980s.
Currently, she pens a monthly column for eightyone, a Staunton-based paper, and continues writing books.
Active in community affairs, Jones was honored by Working Women's Forum as Outstanding Woman of the Year in 2000. She has served on a number of boards including Greater Madison, the Sorenson Institute, and the Arts Council of the Valley, and is active at Emmanuel Episcopal Church. She is former president of the local Pilot Club, the Rockingham County Teachers Association, and ran as a candidate for the House of Delegates. She is currently president of the Valley of Virginia Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.
Released in March 2007, her first children's book titled Jeremy the wonderer/Jeremias el curioso is a bi-lingual story in English and Spanish designed for children and parents. Mrs. Jones resides in Harrisonburg delighted to be near three of her five grown children and four of her six grandchildren.
Margot Bergman was born into an artistic family and has followed this path from an early age, making art and also teaching art and aesthetics at the university level. She received her MFA from James Madison University. Her portraits in oil and pencil are widely known and praised. She works in many media and for the past ten years has been exploring the form of the "radical art quilt." Her work is distinctly lyrical with feminine values of relationship between people and connection with spirit and nature. This is her second children's book following the illustrations for I Bet She Called Me Sugar Plum by Joanne V. Gabbin. The artist's web gallery is found at www.margotbergman.com.
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The fee for an autographed copy of Jeremy the wonderer directly from the author is $13.00 (including book, CD, tax and shipping). It is also available in a number of independent bookstores in the Northern Virginia and Harrisonburg, VA areas. |
The fee for an autographed copy of Rooted on Blue Stone Hill directly from the author is $44.78 (including book, tax, and shipping). It is also available online from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble as well as independent book stores and the University of Virginia. |
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