On the banks of the Delaware

Beman Lord was my brother. Actually, his name was Harold Beman Lord, Jr...always called Beman. Our family (four girls and two boys) grew up in Delaware County, and some went to school in Treadwell when we lived there, but the rest of us went to school in Delhi. Beman was a boy soprano, and I still remember his singing "Alice Blue Gown." He was very theatrical, and my parents moved to Woodstock, NY so he could apprentice at the Summer Stock Theater there. He spent his senior year in school at Kingston. When he graduated at 17, he left home for New York City, only 70 miles or so away. He did many many things, all in the Arts, and during WWII, unable to serve, joined the USO and toured in the Pacific combat area. After that he returned to the City and was, as I said, always in the Arts - even tho sometimes it was only as an usher at Broadway plays when there were no jobs available for him. He worked for Scribner publishers, had story telling programs, Library Fairs, etc. , had his own sales company selling books to schools. There were too many jobs for me to remember, but finally he settled on writing. His first book, The Trouble with Francis won a Boys Clubs of America book award. He traveled and enjoyed life, being married to Patricia Cummings, with whom he had two children, a son and a daughter.