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...high they can't be doing it." PADAA sponsors public forums and blankets the community with literature to combat precisely those attitudes, but it's an uphill battle. "It used to be that the parents who got involved were the ones who had problems," sighs PADAA activist Sandra Plowden. "Now it seems like it's the ones without them...
...famous books by the Hill brothers describes [a collector named] Plowden who had these two violins together in 1850," Ptashne says. "A French violin maker named Vuillaume came by and said you will never see two such beautiful Guarnieris," he says. "So they are a famous historical pair that were apart for 100 years...
...finally got the violin of my dreams, the Plowden which is another [Guarnieri violin made by] Del Jesu in 1735," Ptashne says. "I was in Sweden giving a lecture and an English dealer and friend of mine called and said that if I flew in to New York City that night I could see the twin of the D'Egville," he says. "I flew there and now they're back together...
BRIDGES: THE SPANS OF NORTH AMERICA by David Plowden. 328 pages...
...have to support the added burden of Unking the present to the past. In all their various lengths and styles, these vastly expensive monuments to man's ingenuity and perseverance combine the most basic usefulness with a beauty that commuters have long since taken for granted. Photographer David Plowden provides the pictures and historical text that should restore the balance of awe and respect due these structures...