Philip Gerard photo "Although some times I have felt that I held fire in my hands and spread a page with shining-- I have never lost the weight of clumsiness, of ignorance, of aching despair."
       --- John Steinbeck from Journal of a Novel		 Philip Gerard photo

Philip Gerard

August 1999  

author photo credits: Larry Blakely/ Silver Streak
 
Photos of Suspense under sail off Wrightsville Beach,   N.C., May 2000, by Keith Newlin
"From our lofty perch, of a moonlight night, the frigate itself was a glorious sight. She was going large before the wind, her stun'-sails set on both sides, so that the canvas on the main-mast and fore-mast presented the appearance of two majestic, tapering pyramids, more than a hundred feet broad at the base, and terminating in the clouds with the light cope-stone of the royals. That immense area of snow-white canvas sliding along the sea was indeed a magnificent spectacle."
             -- Herman Melville, from White-Jacket

 

Above two shots: Rehearsal with Carter pedal steel guitar for Dusty and Ace: Goin' Down That Long Lonesome Road show at Kenan Auditorium February 26, 2008. Dusty: Clyde Edgerton, Ace: Philip Gerard.

 

 

Above: All-American Heroes show, March 17, 2005-- Dusty, Ace, and the Propellers at Kenan Auditorium, UNCW.

Below: Practicing at home.

 

Above: Dusty (Clyde Edgerton) and Ace (Philip Gerard) onstage in 2004.

 

        

            Writers Week panel at UNCW 2004.