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2022 Midwest Book Award Finalist PRESS RELEASE

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2000 MIPA Book Awards
2022 MIPA Book Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Post Office Fans, PO Box 11, Crystal Lake, IL 60039, 815-206-8405, info@postofficefans.com.

Local Author from Crystal Lake Named Finalist in Midwest Book Awards
(TENNESSEE POST OFFICE MURALS) by (DAVID W. GATES JR.) up for gold in NON FICTION – HISTORY / REGIONAL

MAY 1, 2022, CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS – TENNESSEE POST OFFICE MURALS (Post Office Fans, 2021) has been selected as a finalist in the history / regional category of the Midwest Book Awards, a long-running regional awards program first established in 1989.

Gates’s book explores (the history of twenty-eight murals installed in post offices during the Great Depression, the book has been well received by historical societies, libraries and New Deal enthusiast nation-wide, Gates’s sleuthing through the original correspondence between the artist and the government provides the reader a rich account of this fascinating moment in American history).

Finalists for the 32nd annual Midwest Book Awards include nearly one hundred titles from fifty- one independent publishers from a 12-state region, competing for gold medals in 35 fiction and non-fiction categories.

View the full list of finalists here. All finalist titles are available for purchase at MiPA’s affiliate bookshop link, an online bookselling platform that directly supports independent booksellers.

Winners will be announced during a YouTube premiere on June 25 at 7pm central. An in-person watch party and book sale will be held starting at 5pm at ModernWell in Minneapolis, a co- working space located at 2909 S Wayzata Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55405. Tickets are required for the watch party, but the book sale from 5pm-6pm is open to the public. Visit www.mipa.org for more information.

About the Midwest Book Awards:

The Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MiPA) first organized the Midwest Book Awards in 1989, and the program has run continually since. Today judges for the prestigious literary award are booksellers, university staff and librarians who are subject matter experts and collectively hail from each of MiPA’s twelve states.

About MiPA:

Founded in 1984 in Minneapolis, the Midwest Independent Publishers Association exists today as a vibrant professional association that serves the publishing communities in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. MiPA aims to create an inclusive publishing community that shares educational resources, fosters networking connections, increases the quality of independent publishing coming out of the Midwest, and helps its member publishers grow.

Tennessee Post Office Murals
Tennessee Post Office Murals

Tennessee Post Office Mural Artists

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Artist William Zorach Greenville TN
Artist William Zorach Greenville TN

A total of twenty-nine artist created murals in thirty Tennessee Post Office buildings during the Great Depression of the 1930s. One of the artist Minna Citron  received multiple commissions. The artist and their awarded sites as listed below.

We have found having a list such as this is convenient when performing research at the National Archives Records and Administration. Any researcher will reveal, that finding information is part of the fun, somethings what you are looking for is catalogued by the artist name. Other times the research materials you need may be cataloged by the city or town, and so on.

Having a list to refer to is helpful on your journey of discovering these wonderful treasures in our nations post offices.

Tennessee Post Office Mural Artist

  1. Bolivar – Carl Nyquist
  2. Camden – John H. Fyfe
  3. Chattanooga – Leopold Scholz, sculpture
  4. Chattanooga – Hilton Leech, mural
  5. Clarksville – F. Luis Mora
  6. Clinton – Horace Talmage Day
  7. Columbia –  Henry Billings, mural
  8. Columbia – Sidney Waugh, sculpture
  9. Crossville – Marion Greenwood
  10. Dayton – Bertram Hartman
  11. Decherd – Enea Biafora
  12. Dickson – Edwin Boyd Johnson
  13. Dresden – Minetta Good
  14. Gleason – Anne Poor
  15. Greeneville – William Zorach
  16. Jefferson City – Charles Child
  17. Johnson City – Wendell Jones
  18. La Follette – Dahlov Ipcar
  19. Lenoir City – David Stone Martin
  20. Lewisburg – John H.R. Pickett
  21. Lexington – Grace Greenwood (Ames)
  22. Livingston – Margaret Covey Chisholm
  23. Manchester –  Minna Citron*
  24. McKenzie – Karl Oberteuffer
  25. Mount Pleasant – Eugene Higgins
  26. Nashville – Belle Kinney
  27. Newport – Minna Citron*
  28. Ripley – Marguerite Zorach
  29. Rockwood – Christian Henrich
  30. Sweetwater – Thelma Martin
New Deal Artists Biographies NARA
New Deal Artists Biographies NARA
New Deal Artists Biographies NARA

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Russellville Tennessee Post Office

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Russellville TN Post Office 37860
Russellville TN Post Office 37860

ADDRESS: 5645 E Andrew Jackson Hwy., Russellville, Tennessee, 37860

Here is an example where the sign letters are missing from the building. I actually almost forgot which one this was as I was sorting all my photos. Luckily, for the metadata of the images I was able to determine which stop the was.

At least there was a dedication plaque.

Thanks,

David W. Gates Jr.

Sources

  • Personal visit on 10/21/2019 by David W. Gates Jr.
  • United States Postal Service