The genius belt
Subtitle: the story of the arts in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
By: introduction by James A Michener ; edited by George S. Bush.
Contributors: Bush, George S.; James A. Michener Art Museum.; Pennsylvania State University. Press.
Publisher: James A. Michener Art Museum in association with the Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Doylestown, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Arts -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County -- History.; Artists -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County -- Biography.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County.; Bucks County (Pa.) -- Intellectual life.; Bucks County (Pa.) -- Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the golden years / James A. Michener; title: The writers / Dorothy Herrmann; title: Footlights and fireflies: the Bucks County theater tradition / Phil Johnson Ruth; title: Henry Chapman Mercer and the craft tradition; title: Cleota Reed; title: The visual arts / Patricia Tanis Sydney; title: Afterword: a brief history of the James A. Michener Art Museum / Brian H. Peterson; title: Appendix 1, "Revolutionary theater" at Washington Crossing / St. John Terrell; title: Appendix 2, Memories of the early Bucks County Playhouse / W. Lester Trauch.