Pre-Owned Ahhhh!: A Tribute to Brother Blue & Ruth Edmonds Hill (Paperback) 0938756672 9780938756675

They are unforgettable, this bedecked, scar-speaking storyspinner and his quiet constant companion. They make a strong first impression. But who are Brother Blue and Ruth Edmonds Hill? Through the words of those closest to them and whose works and worldviews they have profoundly affected comes a portrait of Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill (Brother Blue) and Ruth Edmonds Hill. It is portrait of awe-inspiring commitment to the simple idea that telling and hearing each other's stories profoundly changes the world. And it is a picture of an extraordinary marriage, a bond of love that radiates out to embrace us all. Ruth Edmonds Hill, Blues forever muse, is a distinguished scholar with degrees from U. Mass and Simmons College. She is the Oral History Coordinator at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. Overcoming the poverty and racism of his youth, Hugh Hill triumphed in the world of academia receiving his undergraduate degree from Harvard College then going on to the Yale School of Drama (MFA) and Union Graduate School (PhD). A military officer, a budding playwright and actor, an ordained minister, Hugh Hill heard a different calling. His metamorphosis into Brother Blue created something new and miraculous. Before storytelling was recognized as an art, Brother Blue brought together the improvisation of jazz, the word-magic of poetry, gesture and dance to create stories that speak from soul to soul. Then, clothed in butterflies, he took the path of the holy fool, taking his tales where they are most needed. On the streets and on stages, in pulpits and prisons, Brother Blue lives his art, risks it all gives it all, to awaken sleepers and heal this broken world. Book jacket.