Joy Cometh in the Morning: The Joy Postle Blackstone Story

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iUniverse, May 18, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 376 pages

Joy Postle Blackstone was best known for her vivid murals, often depicting the jubilant wading birds of Florida. When she died in 1989, the world lost a wonderful artist but Joy was much more than a painter. Joys father died when she was only three; her childhood was spent nurtured by her mother and brother, until she began her career at the Chicago Art Institute.

After graduation, her life changed, as she and her family moved to rural Idaho to live on the family homestead. There, she met her husband, Bob, and so began their three-year honeymoon, in the midst of the Great Depression. Joy painted and Bob promoted. They lived a vagabond life. They eventually settled in Florida, where Joy made friends with the birds who would make her murals legend.

Joy Cometh in the Morning traces an artists life from 1896 through to her death in 1989. Joy Postle Blackstone harbored the psychological scars of abortion, infidelity, childlessness, death, and the eventual limitations of advanced age; yet, as the Bible says, Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Through feast or famine, hope or despair, Joy persevered, and she did it with a smile.

 

Contents

Idyll Of The Woods
3
Reflections
4
Vignettes
13
My Early Years
14
Magic
40
My Teenage Years
41
Directions
52
The Frontier Years
53
Land of Sunshine
162
Wedded Bliss
193
Bird Talk
194
Dream House
224
Lake Rose Home at Last
225
Elegy
254
Bittersweet Memories
255
My Lake
273

To a Small Stream
75
Challenges
76
Purpose
95
Joy Postle Interior Decorator
96
The Builder
112
Josy and Bee
113
MigrationSpring
130
The Interview
131
Questions
145
Our Honeymoon Adventure
146
Coda
161
Still A Romantic
274
Fantasy
291
The Manor Years
292
Beachcomber
315
Making the Best of It
316
Requiem For Swallows
335
Wont Quit
336
Epilogue
343
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
349
NOTES AND RESOURCES
351
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About the author (2011)

Judy Madsen Johnson was first a client and then a close friend to Joy Postle Blackstone. She retired from Home & Interiors Gifts after twenty-one years, and she has since dedicated herself to the art of the written word. Joy Cometh in the Morning: The Joy Postle Blackstone Story is her first book. She lives in Oviedo, Florida, with her husband.

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