Genevieve's Picnic: A Life Story by William Flynn Wescott

By Fiora Lizak and William Flynn Wescott

Genevieve's Picnic - A Life Story by William Flynn Wescott, begins with two Genevieves, each living through world war, followed by massive growth and change. Their first son and grandson takes up the task of preserving environment and heritage. This is a synchronous journey from the Great Depression in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; through mysterious Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Bill lived in North Shore Long Island, traveling to California and back, preparing for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Heading to Florida to test materials for Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 39. Restoring Florida Lighthouses and mansions, Wescott prepared for the Bicentennial Ball at the National Gallery of Art East Wing in DC. He chose to settle in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, restoring and preserving simple structures dating to the 1700s as well as later architectural gems such as those created by Richard Sharp Smith, and Douglas Ellington. A testament to the technical expertise as well as social finesse needed to navigate a career in Historic Preservation, this memoir contains some details and dates of interest to those following this course.Bill Wescott began writing his life story about the time that his younger brother Philip Charles Wescott was researching their father, Lou's mysterious adoption. Young Bill and Phil came from a large family of immigrants from Ireland who had settled near Olean, New York, and near the Pennsylvania oil field. Bill Wescott's memoir fills in a branch of the Pennsylvania Jones families, the Olean, New York Flynn families, the Rhode Island Crandalls.Bill Wescott's humorous story of crossing paths, rubbing elbows and making friends as he led the way to save many Historical Architectural Treasures of the United States and Ireland, will increase your trust in beginning new, again and again, while preserving and honoring the past. Bill (Baaca) Wescott watches his kids lead the charge now, and enjoys his five grandchildren, for whom this memoir is written.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519256256
• ISBN13: 9781519256256
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.2" x 7.0"