Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Sunday March 24, 2019 – 2pm
Thom Nickels

Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls ($21.95, History Press)
The inside story on Woodmont Mansion, home of Mother and Father Divine. Hear how Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple tried to take over the mansion and give Mother Divine the boot after Father Divine’s death. Listen to the sad story of Philly architect Thomas Nevell who designed Mount Pleasant, one of the city’s most famous historic house. There’s also the story of art collector Henry P. McIIhenny and his Rittenhouse Square mansion,  scene of many international parties with guests like Warhol and Tennessee Williams  Learn what McIIhenny had to do to win the goodwill of Philadelphia society. 

Learn to Do a Bad Thing Well: Looking for Johnny Bobbitt ($24.95 Amazon)
Thom Nickels was an intimate friend of Johnny Bobbitt’s, the homeless guy involved in the 400k GoFundMe scam. He recorded Bobbitt’s exploits and the exploits of Bobbitt’s homeless friends over a period of one and a half years. Through newspaper columns, interviews and diary entries, this book provides a fast moving and gritty picture of how the heroin addicted homeless survive on the streets of Philadelphia

Thom Nickels is the author of 13 books, including Philadelphia Architecture, Out in History, Two Novellas and Literary Philadelphia: A History of Prose & Poetry in the City of Brotherly Love. His poetry has been published in Van Gogh’s Ear, an anthology of new voices in prose and poetry published in Paris. He was awarded the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism in 2005. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1990 for his book, Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This.  He has been published by The Huffington Post, The New Oxford Review, Philadelphia Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Broad Street Review. He is a columnist for PJ Media in Los Angeles, and a weekly columnist for the Philadelphia Free Press and The Irish Edition. His essay on Agnes Repplier was the cover feature essay in the Winter issue of The American Catholic Studies Journal (Villanova University), 2015.

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