Neshaminy: The Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal : Fall/Winter 2022, Vol. 4, No. 1

by Don Swaim, Melissa D. Sullivan, Bill Stieg

The sixth issue of NESHAMINY: The Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal looks at the historic Delaware Canal, and how it has played a vital role in the economic and artistic life of Bucks County, although operations on the canal ceased more than ninety years ago. The article focuses on Willis M. Rivinus who has spent his adult life helping to promote and preserve this unique but fragile artifact. Jill Lupine cobbles a tale of terror set on the canal’s towpath, while William J. Donahue talks to Adam Waterbear DePaul, tribal storykeeper of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania about the Delaware River journeys of his people. Profiles of the painters deb hoeffner and Alan Fetterman. Daniel Dorian interviews Bridget Wingert, founder of The Bucks County Herald, on the perils of small-town newspaper publishing in the Internet age. Poetry by Jim Brennan and Greg Probst. A memoir by Carl Reader about the thrill of seeing character actor John Carradine perform at the Bucks County Playhouse fifty years ago. Bobby Cohen on the delight and agony of a first love. Fiction by Don Swaim about the last days of the TV regulars on Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand.”

134 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 12, 2022

About the author

Don Swaim is a writer, novelist, journalist, and winner of the 2011 Pearl S. Buck short story prize. His novel, The H.L. Mencken Murder Case (St. Martin's Press), was republished as a trade paperback under the Authors Guild's Back in Print program. Born in Kansas and educated in Ohio, his daily feature "Book Beat" was broadcast on major radio stations through the CBS Radio Stations News Service, and can be heard on the Internet at Wired for Books and at Book Beat:The Podcast. After a career at CBS in New York and Baltimore, Swaim founded the Bucks County Writers Workshop in Pennsylvania. He edits the web's definitive Ambrose Bierce Site. His fiction and articles have been published in small magazines and on the web.