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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | OCTOBER 2019 | 19 The September-October Art Gallery will feature art and photography by Jim and his wife Vicki Allen-Hitt. Although the photographs were taken by Vicki, Jim used various Photoshop programs to enhance and refine. A graduate of North Texas State University, Jim Hitt along with his wife Vicki have lived at Four Seasons since 2006. In addition to numerous magazine articles, he is also the author of The American West: From Fiction Into Film (McFarland, 1991), which has been called the definitive monograph on the subject. Words and Shadows (Citadel, 1992), a large format book, examined the connection between mainstream American literature and film. He is also included in The Louis L'Amour Companion. Carny A Novel in Stories, follows a circus as it travels the back roads of Southern California in 1948. It won the 2011 Grand Prize for Fiction from Next Generation Indie Book Awards. These are stories of carny people and their world that, taken together, form a novel with a distinct beginning and end. "My stepmother was a carny person." Mr. Hitt said, "In the summers of 1957 and 58, when I was a teenager, she took me along for a few weeks. I got to know some of these people and fell in love with them and the carny." His next book was The Courage of Others (Open Books, 2016), a novel set in Texas in 1919. The story is narrated by a teenage white boy who becomes embroiled in racial tensions of the period. One reviewer praised the book as 'a cross between My Antonia and To Kill a Mockingbird." In August 2018 Jim's latest novel, Bodie, was published by Black Horse Press, which the reviewer for Roundup, the official magazine of the Western Writers of America said was "the kind of Western that every traditionist novelist seeks to pen." A prequel, Bodie A Western Part I, is also available as an e-book on Amazon. At present Jim is working on two novels as well as dabbling in Photoshop and other related programs. Gallery Spotlight: Jim Hitt Royce Jerman's weekly Painting Class having a good time Vicki Hitt's one day Alcohol Ink class. Everyone happy with their results. A R T Group Art classes are continuing in the Art Room. It is never to late too join in a class. Sign-up sheets for art and craft classes are in the ART & Craft Room. Except for the Card Class, please call the instructor, her number is below. Painting Pals - Royce Jerman - Instructor: We have been painting together for 10 years and still going strong. We meet every Tuesday from 10 am -to 1pm. Come in and check out the painters progress. Beading Buddies: We have been together almost nine years and are still being creative. Wednesday from 10 am to 1 pm. Drop by anytime and see what we're making now. Drawing and Painting classes by Lois Stipp - Instructor: Mondays, 9:30 am, drawing, Thursdays, 9:30 am, painting, oil and acrylic. Lois will resume classes in October. Sign-up sheet is already in the Art & Craft Room. Greeting Card Classes - Kathy Anderson - Instructor. Everyone makes two different greeting cards that lets you express your talents. Fun! Classes are the second Friday of the month from 10 am to noon and the fourth Thursday of the month from 1 to 3 pm. Class cost is $14 and includes supplies. Call Kathy at (951) 599-4039. She asks you to call her to sign up.