Lecture: Llewellyn Howland's "NO ORDINARY BEING" biography of W. Starling Burgees

HMM Lecture Series Presents: Llewellyn Howland III on his new book “NO ORDINARY BEING: W. Starling Burgess, Inventor, Naval Architect, Poet, Aviation Pioneer, and Master of American Design”

January 22nd, 2015
Reception begins at 6pm; Lecture starts at 7pm.

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About the Book:

Few twentieth-century Americans lived a more creative, event-filled, and often conflicted life than the Boston-born aviation pioneer and yacht designer W. Starling Burgess. Orphaned at twelve, Burgess received his first patent at nineteen, left Harvard, and, following the suicide of the first of his five wives, published a book of poetry at twenty-four. Among his children was the celebrated author-artist Tasha Tudor.

Burgess was a personality of enormous charm, physical courage, and energy. He was also, as his son lamented, “a child who will not face hard facts, but will hide from them and will love the person who shields him from them.” The tension between his personal and professional life had consequences both disturbing and tragic—and provides answers to questions, and insight into events, that cover the entire span of the twentieth century. Here, at last, is a book that cover the entire fascinating career of a genuine native polymath.

The HMM Lecture Series is sponsored by: Points East Magazine, The Bay Magazine, Pure Insurance, Cisco Brewery, Nantucket Vineyard, & Triple Eight Distillery.