ANTIL Aims Over POTTERHEADS and Targets BABYBOOMERS Worldwide

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y., March 25, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- SIMON BARRETT BLOGGER NEWS INTERVIEWS AUTHOR JEROME MARK ANTIL:
Jerome Mark Antil grew up in upstate New York seventy miles from where Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn. Like Twain Antil writes of Acadiana. That coincidence and Antil's drawing inspiration from a waterfalls he lived in front of seven miles from where L. Frank Baum was inspired by another waterfalls to write his The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Blogger News wanted to know if proximity makes art, or is it the water.
Q - You're boyhood home is now a county park. Delphi Falls.
A - Yes, it opened last year - Cazenovia, New York.
Q - Why did you write this novel?
A - "Racial and cultural divides are getting worse, not better - I believe that if WWII were required studies worldwide from the day we are born - we would have assimilated by now and cultural tensions would stand down."
Q - "You don't like, (approve) of science fiction. Why?"
A - Of course I do. I was born a month after Captain America came out. I grew up with Superman. But their radio shows were fifteen minutes long every week. We had to live real life all the rest of the week, get out and do real things.
Q - "It's less safe today - getting out of the house."
A - "It wasn't safe then. We had weekly socials - everyone came - we talked, we danced, we broke bread. We saw each other's human side - we assimilated. We earned respect, we learned respect, we learned manners."
Q - Is your story true? Tall Jerry - Legend One?
A - "My stories are tales, they are seeded by true events. They get taller with the telling - but they make their points."
Q - When does it take place?
A - 1953 at Delphi Falls, my childhood home.
Q - What would Tall Jerry do today to make America better?
A - "He would make every seat in Congress two seats - a primary and second. Congress would get a report card every quarter. If they failed to keep promises made, they are automatically removed and replaced by their second."
Q - Anything else?
A - "In the '60s Congress jailed disk jockeys for taking payola (bribes) for playing records. Lobbyist's money (bribes) to our representatives should be illegal.
Q - Predictions for America?
A - "We were born with a mean nature to us - we bought and sold slaves for 400 years; we annihilated Native American heritages; our Civil War had brothers killing brothers with American death tolls exceeding every war we've ever fought, combined."
Q - Any way out?
A - "When we're threatened, as we were in WWII, we we're a good, giving, brave people."
Q - Will it take a war?
A - "WWII brought us to a moral compass that was right for the world. We need to teach WWII, it's cause and effects to grade schoolers and get good examples seeded - or stand back and wait for another something big."
Q - Other than the war, what's different today than it was during that war?
A - "The draft. In the '40s and '50s we knew we would be out of the house at 18 - serving the country. It could have been civil service, or armed battle. We knew from the day we started school we would have responsibilities when we turned 18."
Q - You grew up fast.
A - "We had to. Maturing was a responsibility, not an accident."
Q - Give me one example about your youth.
A - "We lived four miles from the school. My brothers and I overslept and missed the school bus. My mom told us she was responsible for getting us fed and educated - not getting us on the school bus. She made us walk."
Q - That was good, one more?
A - "I was an allstar, all county high school basketball player, full college basketball scholarship - and my mother and father never saw me play a game. Life adventures of growing up was our experience - not theirs. We didn't grow up in their shadows."
Q - Your mother and father are strong characters in your novel.
A - "They were a strong part of me. They still are."

It has been said that Antil reads like a Norman Rockwell painting. He's been called a Greatest Generation Mark Twain. Antil finds his disciplines in Ernest Hemingway's teaching....the master of honest sentences.

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SOURCE Little York Books