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Algonquin Elegy: Tom Thomson's Last Spring
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- Neil J Lehto
- iUniverse
- Paperback
- 9780595361328
- 9 X 6 X 0.57 inches
- 0.82 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Artists, Architects, Photographers
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
'Neil J. Lehto's Algonquin Elegy: Tom Thomson's Last Spring, is both a labor of love and a labor of gargantuan effort to come to some understanding, nine decades on, of exactly what happened that summer of 1917. Perhaps no one has ever worked as hard to know the unknowable and, in doing so, he has contributed invaluably to the greatest story in all of Canadian art. Neil's passion for Tom Thomson shines through as passionately on each page as Thomson's passion for Algonquin Park shines though on each painting he left behind that last Spring.
-Roy MacGregor, Columnist for the Globe & Mail, writer of a novel based on the mystery of painter Tom Thomson's final days, Canoe Lake
-Joan Murray, Executive Director and CEO, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario.
Author Bio
Neil J. Lehto is a 65-year-old attorney who lives in Berkley, Michigan. He and with his wife, Cheri, have seven daughters. So far, they have seven grandsons, Andrew, Joseph, Ayden, Austin, Max, Ethan,and Oscar, and a two granddaughters, Hannah and
Samantha.
Lehto began writing as a part-time newsroom assistant at The Daily Tribune in Royal Oak, Michigan, in 1968, while he attended Wayne State University. In 1972, he began working fulling time as a reporter upon his return from training as a mechanized
infantry scout with the Ist. Battalion of the 225th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Michigan Army National Guard stationed in Detroit, where he served as Battalion Public Information Officer. After graduating from Wayne State University in 1974 with a
bachelor of arts in journalism he enrolled at the Detroit College of Law.
He also graduated from the Michigan Military Academy in Battle Creek in 1974 with a commission as second lieutenant and returned to service as a platoon leader with Company C of the 225th. Neil was honorably discharged in 1976. He served as a
managing editor of the Detroit College of Law Review in 1976 and 1978. He graduated in 1978 and joined a law firm in Sterling Heights, Michigan, where he eventually became a shareholder. He left the firm in 2003 to establish a solo practice representing cities, villages and townships in cable television, telecommunications, public utility, right-of-way management and related matters. He remains actively practicing law part-time today.
Source: algonquinelegy.com
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