For centuries creative people in all fields have had a thinking
place - a private retreat where they have worked regularly, hoping
to find inspiration. The authors have chosen thirty-one creative
people who vaulted from their thinking places to well-deserved fame
or international recognition. These special retreats varied from
architectural jewels to humble huts to chosen sites in nature
itself. George Bernard Shaw's was a simple garden hut with one
window and one door - and a turntable underneath. Shaw captured the
prevailing sunlight with a push and a turn.
In their journeys, Carolyn and Jack Fleming discovered that many
thinking places still seem to exude an atmosphere of creativity.
The Flemings have recorded the details of their searches for you,
the reader to duplicate - in reality or in imagination. In their
travels the authors discovered much little known information, which
they have included in sprightly written vignettes. What was Charles
Dickens' long kept secret? What beloved figure did Life magazine
proclaim "the unofficial president of the United States"? Who
received what the U.S. Patent office states is the most valuable
patent ever issued? What two leading educators rose from slavery
and extreme poverty to world-wide fame? The reader will discover
that the thirty-one people selected were as intriguing as they were
creative.
Besides descriptive journeys, vignettes and thinking places, the
reader will also receive thirty-one instances of lagniappe, a Cajun
word for "a little something extra." Read Thinking Places and see
what something extra may be in store for you.
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