Nolan E. Smith of Bishop\u00a0St. New Haven died October\u00a029, 2009 in the Hospital of St.\u00a0Raphael. Nolan was born in\u00a0Lima, OH April 30, 1932, son\u00a0of the late Raymond P. and\u00a0Mary Purnell Smith. He was\u00a0the proprietor of American\u00a0Worlds Books, selling rare\u00a0books to universities worldwide and helped scholars\u00a0with research projects. Nolan\u00a0received his Bachelor of Arts\u00a0with honors in English from\u00a0Ohio Wesleyan University\u00a0in 1954, his Master of Arts\u00a0from University of Toronto\u00a0in 1955, and attended Yale\u00a0University, studying\u00a0American Literature in 1958.\u00a0He also was an instructor of\u00a0English at the University of\u00a0Virginia. He was a member\u00a0of several academic honor\u00a0societies including Phi Beta\u00a0Kappa. He was a trombone\u00a0player and a member of the\u00a0ClamDiggers Dixie Band and\u00a0a member of the New Haven\u00a0Preservation Trust. He is the\u00a0brother of D\u2019Nell Larkin of \u00a0Woodland, CA and the late\u00a0Doyle Raymond Smith.<\/p>\n
Letter from Nolan prior to his passing ….<\/p>\n
Hi,Tom:
\nThank you for another informative letter. It\u2019s good to hear about Jim Meredith, and to see the pictures of all of you, in Maine. The colon problem is certainly a major one, too, and my own brother had that years ago. Jim looks about as good as he would have if he\u2019d just finished a strenuous weight loss program. I\u2019ve also lost some weight since I last saw you, thanks to a case of pernicious anemia which came my way in late 2007. I\u2019ve been taking lots of iron pills, getting B-12 shots, and the like; however, along with various kinds of tests. I suppose I just have to think that I didn\u2019t need that extra 25 lb. or so, after all.<\/p>\n
Good to hear of the playing opportunities, and all that they involved. I played several circus gigs in New Haven, too, in the eighties, I think, but it was all pretty stressful, and live bands just don\u2019t do those jobs any more. (Nothing like getting it all on tape, I suppose,
\nif perhaps the band getting it on tape is getting paid rather well.) I much prefer the small \u201csociety\u201d bands for dances; however, as you probably noticed, in \u201904, and have one\u00a0of them coming up this\u00a0Saturday, at the Club a block\u00a0and a half south of me, along\u00a0with one at the Yale Law\u00a0School a week from tonight.\u00a0The latter has a visiting\u00a0speaker from New Orleans,\u00a0that day, and wants to have\u00a0a band play a lot of N. O.\u00a0tunes for him. One of the ones\u00a0he wants is \u201cHigh Society,\u201d \u00a0but we\u2019ll have to substitute\u00a0something for that, since this\u00a0group doesn\u2019t know it all that\u00a0well, and also won\u2019t have a\u00a0large enough band to do justice\u00a0to it. Other people might not\u00a0even known \u201cStruttin\u2019 with\u00a0some Barbecue,\u201d but I\u2019ll try to\u00a0get us to learn that, if possible.<\/p>\n
Re the books: I\u2019m at www.amworlds.net, and I need to get busy to list some more books there, after not having done that for a while. I sell on Amazon and another site or two; however, and have really had to review all my Internet listings, this past two years, since AZ doesn\u2019t make it easy for us to get our books listed on its site, even though it gets a good bit of its profit from fees for our listings.<\/p>\n
Happy trolling on my site, then; I\u2019m also trying to finish some writing projects long delayed, and this effort seems to take most of the time left over from other efforts to bring in some cash. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll get back to the reunion this year, as I may have said, but Mike Schwartz and others at this end of the country might do so. Mike and his wife are down in Florida, actually, somewhere, you know. I\u2019ve never been to FL myself, I must confess, but it doesn\u2019t seem to do anyone any harm, especially at this time of year, does it?
\nNolan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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