Mystery and Romance in the Moonlight

By Laura Lonshein Ludwig

This book is a delightful selection of short stories and poetry. A comic science fiction work is included. Mystery and romance is in each story and these stories are written from the 18th century to the present. A film producer would find a fascinating material in this book to contact the author with interest in it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669847472

Laura Lonshein Ludwig

Ms. Ludwig attended Franconia College and the Gene Frankel Theatre and studied acting, Since that time Ms. Ludwig has performed thousands of times on television, radio and stage. Ms. Ludwig has worked with and televised Joe Franklin the legend in talk radio, The Joe Franklin Memory Lane show, WOR AM radio, Al Lewis, Grandpa Al Lewis star of the TV series the Munsters and Car 54 Where Are You, and Karen Lewis are on WBAI radio, producing and hosting, Al Lewis Live. Professor Irwin Corey, the legendary comic, recently he was in SLY FOX on Broadway. Bianca Jagger appeared on Ms. Ludwig’s TV, show, Earth Is Not On Tape as well as many other stars

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CONTENTS

Biographical Note On Laura Lonshein Ludwig

POETRY

California Highway

The Love Of My Grandmothers

The Cornfield Farmer In The Painting

A Chased Beauty

Jazz In The Golden Age

The Life Of A Writer

The Lost Treasure

The Mother’s Side Of My Family

Vacation In Italy

The Garden

A Family Conversation At Dinner

Thoughts Of Summers On Winter Nights

An English Lord In The Seventeenth Century

For 2022

SHORT STORIES

To The Mountain House

The Antique Dealer

The Franklin Boarding House

Visiting Cousin Elizabeth

Love Found In New York

Shakespeare’s Childhood Friend

The Stolen Chest Of Money By The Sea

The Lady Escapes To Rio De Janeiro

The Happy Memories Of Nights In Brooklyn

PLAYS

A Family Of Painters In America

When The Martians Landed In America

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON

LAURA LONSHEIN LUDWIG

Ms. Ludwig is listed in Who’s Who in the World. She is a screenwriter, actress, poet, director for television and radio, and producer of a top-rated television show Earth Is Not on Tape, featuring the artists of New York—both the rising stars and those renowned stars—who have produced the greatest contributions to American art from The Joe Franklin’s Memory Lane show host, Joe Franklin, who brought the actors and singers we have enjoyed and learned so much from now be seen on the Turner Classic Movies station and other stations, bringing our greatest heritage to us in film and stage. The legendary comic Prof. Irwin Corey appeared on Laura’s television show and enjoyed Broadway onstage in the play Sly Fox to a film produced by Woody Allen and countless other stages, presenting his hilarious comedy. Al Lewis, legendary comic actor enjoyed in the Car 54, Where Are You? television series and movie, appeared while running for governor in the state of New York, and Bianca Jagger appeared on Ms. Ludwig’s show during the Kosovo crisis to alert the audience about the conditions there. She is remembered as the wife of Mick Jagger, rock-and-roll legend years ago. She offers her warmth and concern as an activist, following in the tradition of community television on BCAT. Laura remained true to the concerns of her viewers, with a Christmas concert at the Trinity church, the New York Poetry Circuit, comics, opera, and ballet.

Laura presented other great hosts to talk about the work they produced, such as the host and producer of The Light Show, an arts and music show, on WBAI radio 99.5 FM in New York City. Laura’s goal was to create the type of television that would bring the standards back up to the great television and movies she loved in the best years of television production for today’s audience.

Laura’s TV show ran from 1994 to 2002 until she moved to Upstate New York. Ms. Ludwig is a recipient of four New York State Council of the Arts Awards from Poets & Writers while working with the Museum of Sound Recording, producing shows recorded on equipment used by legends in the music business and acquired by the president of the museum, Dan, who produced tapes from the shows. Some of Laura’s books can be found in the Mid-Manhattan Library, New York University Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, in libraries around the world, and in good book stores in Upstate New York and in San Francisco, California, in City Lights, and booksellers. All the books can be ordered at your local book publisher or online bookstore. Laura is the author of six books previously PUBLISHED by XLIBRIS. The books are ROBO SAPIENS; SOUNDS LIKE A PLOT; REFLECTIONS FOR THE RENAISSANCE; THE HAUNTED HOUSE AND THE STOLEN GOLD, GULLIVER OF NEW YORK; and TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, MEMORABLE PLAYS AND SHORT STORIES FOR THE SCREEN.

Laura was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Poetry by Seconds Glance magazine. Laura served on the staff of two literary magazines, the New Press Literary Quarterly and Medicinal Purposes. Reviews for her work continue to be inspiring. To mention some of the critiques on the book ROBO SAPIENS, legend in the arts and actor Al Lewis reviewed it with the following:

Laura Lonshein Ludwig’s love for the earth and reverence for what is fair shine through her work. She pulls you in to that rate prism of reality which reflects back on your own bringing the inevitable ahahhh!

Joe Franklin, of WOR radio and WBBR, said, I think of Laura affectionately and respectfully as the first new superstar of the Millennium.

And Dr. Joseph S. Salemi, who teaches in the Department of Humanities at New York University and the Classics Department of both Hunter and Brooklyn College, stated:

Laura Lonshein Ludwig’s poems are excursions into complex thought and even more complex feelings, they are incantatory, dreamlike and multidimensional meditations which in their passionate intellectuality and articulate humanity come to grips with the frightening aspects of how we live now.

Most recently, Laura ran a reading at the Inquiring Minds Bookstore, featuring the poetry of poets from Upstate New York and around the country, and presented her plays through the good work of fellow poets who also were actors, such as Ad Augeri, who also played the lead role in Laura’s televised comedies. Most of the plays and poetry in this book were recorded for the radio audience by the host of The Poetry Hour on WLPR FM, an Upstate New York radio show.

POETRY

CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY

Laura Lonshein Ludwig

From the vast space

In California

Mountains

In the clear blue sky

A thin road to the future

Lone car on the road

Life is everywhere

Not a house in sight

Trees bend in anticipation

Sunlight on a dusty road

This is perfect freedom

Not knowing where you will go

This is a day in the last century

It is in every memory

Of a road

Without a person in sight

It is in nature

Talking to you

Sunlight splits into

Lines on the highway

The air is cool

In it the anticipation

Of the unexpected

The promise is in not knowing

The mountains look

Down upon you

There is nothing but the highway

And space

The freedom

Is in mankind not

Owning everything

Traveling down this highway

There is only one promise

That will always take you further

In the summer breeze

It is the thrill of anticipation

You feel as