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Mesa Artist Finds Warm Reception in Montana

East Valley Tribune

Born in Banning, California, artist Linda Glover Gooch moved in 2001 to Mesa, Arizona, where she lives with her family and works in her studio. Her Impressionistic paintings reveal her wonder from Western landscapes in Arizona and Montana –– grand places such as the Salt River near Phoenix, the Grand Canyon and Glacier national parks and Flathead Lake in northwest Montana. About 20 miles from the lake, she is hosting “Intertwined with Living Waters: The Art of Linda Glover Gooch” in Kalispell at the Hockaday Museum of Art occupying a 1904 Carnegie Library on the National Register of Historic Places. For the most part, she works “en plein air,” setting up her easel to create, in this case, paintings, field studies and sketches of life-giving water in its varying forms of river, fog, snow and clouds.

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EV Teens Celebrate Greek Heritage

East Valley Tribune, September 20, 2018

One of the many joys of a freelancing career is contributing to many media: national, books, magazines, websites, ezines and newspapers. Stories such as this one are uniquely pleasing for many reasons, including furthering the success of local newspapers in large and small communities. When the internet first blossomed, the death of print media was widely foretold and extolled, even in print! But local papers, which celebrate the achievements of young people such as Christopher and Mikayala in this story on an annual Greek food and cultural event, are thriving. By focusing on neighbors, they reassert the importance of community events and the people who live just next door or just a block away.

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