Falcon Bookshelf

The Falcon Bookshelf features published works by or about alumni and other members of the FSU community. We also highlight books edited or contributed to by alumni, faculty or administrators. To be included in The Falcon Bookshelf, send the book and the publisher’s press release to: maroon&white 1201 Locust Ave. Fairmont, WV 26554 or send publisher’s press release and a high-resolution book cover image to maroonandwhite@fairmontstate.edu.

East Harlem Library and Community Garden by Meagan Pauley '10

This project investigates the design of a New York City Public Library as an urban intervention. The East Harlem Library and Community Garden is a modified courtyard scheme with entrance from the street through the courtyard. The building is designed to allow light and air into the central courtyard, as if the structure is breathing. The interlocking volumes make this concept possible, while also allowing the garden to occupy a space on every level. Third year Masters of Architecture project. Professor Joseph Tanney. The site is in East Harlem on 118th street between 1st and 2nd Avenues. The lot is 80 feet x 100 feet, and currently houses the
Diamante Garden, the local community garden. In order to build on this site, the garden’s program must be incorporated into the new proposal. Given the planned extension of the 2nd Ave subway to 116th street, East Harlem’s population is poised to grow in the coming years. The program is a 10,700 square foot Public Branch Library with 8,000 square foot Community Garden.

About the Author: Meagan Pauley received her bachelor of science in architecture degree from FSU in 2010. She is a third year masters of architecture student at The City College of New York.
Magic in the Mountains by Donna Meredith

Magic in the Mountains is the story of Kelsey Murphy, the extraordinary woman who revolutionized the creation of cameo glass. Her willingness to marry fine art to manufacturing gave her the incomparable advantage of using fourteen tanks of colorful glass as her palette. The cased blanks produced at Pilgrim Glass Corporation have never been equaled anywhere else in the world. But this is more than simply Kelsey's story. It is the story of her family and her teachers. The story of the talent and skill of those people she pulled into her wake, including fellow artist and machinist Robert Bomkamp and Pilgrim Glass Corporation CEO Alfred E. Knobler. It is the story of all the forces that gathered in Ceredo, West Virginia, the small town and its people who believed in the magic of cameo glass and possessed the resources and willpower to make it happen.

About the author: Clarksburg, WV, native Donna Meredith lives in Tallahassee, FL, with her husband John. She has written two award-winning novels, The Glass Madonna and The Color of Lies and has contributed to the Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee magazine, Goldenseal and Southern Literary Review. Donna taught high school English, Journalism, and TV Production in public high schools in West Virginia and Georgia. She graduated from Fairmont State College, West Virginia University, and Nova Southeastern University.