Amazing Women: Amazing Firefighters
Marsh Engle, et al (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
2002 Jodere Group
ISBN: 1588720446
With photography by Gay Reboli, a journey inside the world of the FDNY filled with courage, adventure & commitment.
In her Amazing Women Series, Marsh Engle has gone in search of women who inspire, ordinary women with extra-ordinarily centered senses of where they came from, who they are & where they are going.
In Amazing Firefighters, we meet female firefighters who tell, in poetry & prose, about their passions, histories, feelings of community, feelings of making a difference.
The Chapter headings range the spectrum of intangibles such as expression & purpose to intent & risk; from challenge to confidence; from integrity & teamwork to trust & focus; from perseverance & awareness to action & downtime; from compassion & intuition to love & balance; from tradition & determination to esteem & spirit. Each woman records her thoughts & sense of place, of belonging.
Amazing Firefighters is a special little book in which we meet & make friends with an array of feminine & thoughtful people who offer us glimpses into what it is to be heroic.
Gay Reboli's black & white photographs give us the gift of a thousands unspoken words of the world of the firefighter--such everday images of lockers, fire trucks & helmets as well as a cameo portrait of each woman that expresses the essence of Maureen Leo, Anna Schermerhorn, Linda Pedersen, JoAnn Jacobs, Susan Blake, Lorraine Cziko,Margaret Moffatt, Francesca Smith, Rochelle “Rocky” Jones, Eileen Gregan, Lynn Porter Bernadotte, Regina Wilson, Teresa French, Maureen B. McArdle Schulman, Lois Mungay, Celia Thompson, Patricia “Cubby” Fitzpatrick, Ginny Culkin-Spinelli, Carol Walsh, Aisha Bauman, Marianne Monahan, Michele Fitzsimmons, Brenda Berkman, Tracy Lewis & Adrienne Walsh&$151;their names are a roster of true American citizens. Mothers, daughters, lovers & sisters one & all.
A fascinating, different & modest labor of love, appreciation & R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Certainly a good book to give someone you love, someone you'd like to inspire.
A portion of Amazing Women/Amazing Firefighters will benefit the United Women Firefighters of the FDNY.
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