11/15/2023 0 Comments Radnor township summer camp![]() ![]() So affected was McBride that the book is dedicated to him, as are the last pages which are an acknowledgment of Friend’s impact upon him. “I was deeply affected by Sy Friend,” the retired director of the camp, who worked there from 1950 to 1979, McBride said in a recent interview with The Mercury. McBride - the award-winning author of such acclaimed works as “The Good Lord Bird,” which won the 2013 National Book Award for fiction, “Deacon King Kong” and “The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother” - had set out in 2008 to write a story based on his experience working as a camp counselor at the Variety Club Camp for children and young adults with disabilities on Potshop Road.Īnd although the camp did not turn out to be the setting for the novel, people with physical challenges are to be found everywhere on its pages. It was supposed to be down-county in Worcester Township. POTTSTOWN - James McBride did not at first plan to set his novel “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” on Pottstown’s “Chicken Hill.”
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