Friday, April 24, 2009

Bob Jannoni to appear at Gifts at Crane Brook Sunday, 4/26

The following text is excerpted from today's Carver Reporter. Our colleague, Bob Jannoni, garnered the following write-up:

Local artists featured in open house meet-and-greet
By Bobbi Sistrunk

Carver - After a long period of political campaigns coupled with crazy New England weather, it’s time to put politics aside, shed your tendencies towards hibernation and get out and about in the neighborhood. And what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than to celebrate the local flavor? Join the staff of Gifts at Crane Brook for an artists’ open house, where you can meet several of the area’s finest artists, photographers and authors. Gift Shop Manager Denise Cunningham said she works hard to find unique treasures that are made locally to sell in her shop. . . .

The open house features readings from local authors like . . . Bob Jannoni, co-author of Solved: The Mystery of the General Arnold, will read from his book as well. Jannoni’s book tells the tragic story of a ship that sank off the coast of Plymouth in 1778. It is considered one of the worst disasters of the American Revolution.

Jannoni said he looks forward to sharing part of the book with visitors to the Crane Brook Gift Shop Sunday.

“I want to talk about the 105 men on board, of which 72 froze to death,” Jannoni said. “They were frozen together, literally. They brought them to the Mill Pond to try to thaw them out so they could bury them, but they were frozen together and they buried them that way. We only have 18 names of the 72 that died, and we’re searching for the others because we want to put a memorial with all the names down on the waterfront.”

He said the idea for the book came to him by a man named George Hanlon, who knew of the wreck. He said he had been researching another shipwreck at the time. After hearing of the General Arnold, though, he became interested in that wreck and further pursued the subject.

“I had to give my wreck up for five years to work on this book,” he said.

Jannoni said he plans to read excerpts from the book, as well as sign copies. . . .

The open house takes place from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 26. Gifts at Crane Brook is located at 225 Tremont St.