T R QUIGLEY

 
   AS A PLAYWRIGHT, I HAVE WRITTEN SEVERAL PLAYS, MUSICALS AND CHILDREN'S WORKS.  AN ADAPTATION OF FRANKENSTEIN WAS ONE OF MY EARLY PLAYS THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCED IN COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL THEATERS. I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED HORROR MOVIES AND NOVELS.  THE STORY OF ETERNAL HAD BEEN BREWING IN MY HEAD FOR MANY YEARS.
   TOO MANY STORIES TO BE TOLD AND NOT ENOUGH TIME BROUGHT ME TO THE ART OF THE STORT STORY.  I BEGAN WITH AN IDEA OF A MAN (ME REALLY) ON A QUEST TO SEE A BULL MOOSE ALONG MY FAVORITE RIVER, THE OSGOOD RIVER IN THE ADIRONDACKS. I KNEW THE RIVER QUITE WELL AND HAD SOME IDEA WHERE THE STORY WOULD GO, SO I  JUST KEPT WRITING AS IT CAME TO ME. Today is the Day! WAS THE RESULT AND MAYBE MY FAVORITE STORY. 
   ONE DAY, AFTER GOING TO MASS, THE THOUGHT JUST POPPED INTO MY HEAD: Our Fathers Who Art in Heaven!  IT STRUCK ME AS A TITILE OF SOMETHING - A PLAY? A NOVEL? IT WAS TO BE A SHORT STORY ABOUT MY FATHER AND MY FATHER-IN-LAW MEETING IN HEAVEN. I WROTE THAT SHORT STORY IN JUST A FEW DAYS.
   I WAS A BRAKEMAN ON THE B&O RR DURING COLLEGE. I STARTED Night Train WITH A MIXTURE OF EVENTS THAT REALLY HAPPENED AND THEN KEPT WRITING TO SEE WHERE IT WOULD GO. I MIXED IN A GOOD BIT OF HISTORY AS WELL.
   Opening Day!  WAS A STORY I HAD RELIVED IN MY HEAD SINCE 1956. IT HAD TO BE TOLD.
   SINCE I LIVE IN THE HISTORIC N GA MOUNTAINS, WHICH WAS THE SITE OF THE FIRST GOLD RUSH IN THE USA, I FELT COMPELLED TO WRITE A STORY ABOUT MODERN DAY MIXED WITH THE HISTORY OF GOLD MINING AND THE CHEROKEE NATION IN Cherokee GOLD?
   ALSO A HISTORY BUFF, I HAVE BEEN VERY ENGAGED IN COLLABORATING ON THE NEW NON-FICTION BOOK ABOUT MY WIFE DIANNE'S GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER IN THE CIVIL WAR. HIS FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS AND THE LOVE STORY WITH JOSIE IS A TALE OF SURVIVIAL. Oh! Horror of Horrors! IS EXPECTED TO BE PUBLISHED IN 2026/2027 BY THE UNG PRESS.
I  LIVE WITH MY WIFE OF 56 YEARS, DIANNE, IN THE NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS.