BULL SHOALS ART CLUB EXHIBIT

Bull Shoals Art Club will be exhibiting the month of July at the Ozark Regional Arts Council Gallery in the Vada Sheid Community Center (The Sheid) on the campus of Arkansas State University/Mountain Home. Reception Thursday, July 2 from 4-6; refreshments will be served.

     The Bull Shoals Art Club started in1992, with several artist friends who gathered to paint at the Bull Shoals First Baptist Church. January 26, 1999 Gladys Fournier of Bull Shoals filed Bull Shoals Arts and Humanities Council as a No-Profit Corporation. Over the years they displayed their art in several locations and had a gallery at Bel Arco Resort. Today, their work is displayed where they meet the first Wednesday each month at 10:30 a.m., in Lloyd Travis Municipal Center (City Hall) 14 Skyles Lane, Lakeview. Every other month no business meeting for they gather to paint and learn from each other.

     July artist exhibitors are, President Lilly Dana, had always loved to draw and at sixteen she started to paint in oil and attended classes at the Minnesota Art School. She loves to paint land and seascapes for her own enjoyment. Edie (Edith) Thornburg retired 1998 from Illinois. She took classes from Jo Rowell at PAL’s in Yellville, working in pastel, oil and colored pencils, painting still life, animals, and flowers. She is also a member of the Area Art Club and has won ribbons in several area art shows. Arlene Westmoreland moved to Lakeview over four years ago from Iowa where she was involved in classes, art shows and promoting her art in all mediums except acrylics. Phyllis Myers started taking classes for therapy in 1978 and after retiring to this area she joined the club in 2002. Jerry Preator is a native of Independence, Missouri who has worked and taught watercolor painting for over fifty years. He provides classes at his studio in Lakeview. He has exhibited in shows in several states winning awards and many are in private collections. Preator designed the latest Bull Shoals Art Club logo. Mary Nida Smith is a former president of the Siloam Spring Artist Guild where she entered several art shows. After moving to Lakeview she has been involved in photography. Her photographs have won in several local art shows. Dale Hedgecough, moved from Michigan to this area 12 years ago to retire. She took eight years of painting and drawing lessons at ASUMH to improve her skills Call Lilly Dana 656-2757 dana-ron@comcast.net. Edie Thornburg 870-431-4718 edierachel@yahoo.com

Beneath the Waves: Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century by Mary Nida Smith

Published by Skyhorse Publishing (release November 2015)
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The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea.In Beneath the Waves,
many brave men rode submarines to great depths and across the oceans into unknown territory
 share their experiences, fears, and thoughts. They allow us to travel back in time through their
 memories. Trained for years to keep silent—for “loose lips sink ships”—many still believe what they 
know to be classified and refuse to disclose even the minutest of recollections. Others,however, want
 to leave a legacy of reminiscences for people to learn and live by—to know that freedom is not free.
Some stories will never be told. Held within the secret confines of their souls, these deep sea
veterans block them out for self-perseverance. Yet, there are others who will never escape their own
minds; they relive their underwater experiences over and over with eyes open or shut.

Beneath the Waves is about teenage boys who left farms, small towns, and inner cities to defend the
United States and democracy worldwide. Signing up for United States Navy submarine duty was an
adventure of a lifetime during the early 1940s. Dreams of torpedoing Japanese and German ships and
subs consumed their thoughts. Those who returned home as young men were older and wiser.
Beneath the Waves was written to honor these men—gallant heroes—who served and are serving
 today on submarines.
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associated with the speaking engagements. You may contact the author directly to check 
availability @ marynida@suddenlink.net . Beneath the Waves: Submarine Stories of the Twentieth
Century is also on NewSouth Books website, Sydney, Australia.