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Angela’s most cherished success
in life; raising her two children;
Vincent,
an avid outdoorsman
Carie,
a singer.
Born on September 24, 1952, Angela Clarke was raised in
Gravenhurst Ontario. Being a country girl she grew up climbing trees, riding
horses and going fishing. On summer mornings she’d race to Gull Lake Park
to go swimming and in the afternoon go cliff diving at The Sucker Hole. At
night all the neighbourhood kids played street games, like Niki-Niki-Nine
Doors, and yes, her gang of lifelong friends from the War Time Houses had a
baseball field where they hung out. When her fun-loving aunts visited from the
city, Angela would ride around town in their 8 cylinder convertibles with the
roof down. In the afternoon she would daintily wear frills and lace, enjoying a
formal cup of tea enhanced with a sprig of mint with her Grandma Clarke; both
ladies wearing quaint netted hats with matching gloves.
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As a teenager, Angela enjoyed her little 45-records of
Hendrix, The Stones, Joplin, Dylan, Lightfoot, The Beatles, Elvis, CCR and The
Animals, but she’d often make up her own rhyming words to the tunes, not
realizing song writing was an untapped talent. Memories of singing folk songs
around a crackling campfire and hanging out with friends in rock bands was the
natural thing to do in the sixties; the hippie days were lively and fun,
including the colourful free-spirited clothes, way-out super-straight-ironed
hair and afros with bright yellow bandanas.
Angela has been busy all or her life. As a young mother she worked in a dining
lounge until she was offered a sales position selling furniture. Always working
high-energy jobs she found quiet time to write twelve Band Together novels and
compile many different styles of lyrics for songs. She is a self-published
Canadian author who has traveled internationally to both Eastern Europe and
Africa with small citizen’s groups. She traveled to Azerbaijan with a
group of women representing a broad spectrum and interests of Canadian society
who were invited to a woman’s conference in Baku on the Caspian Sea.
The women’s group was coordinated by an NGO accredited to the United
Nations in New York known as Campaign for the Earth. Angela’s
participation upon going to Azerbaijan was to focus on children in Baku. She
distributed toys and showed them how to throw frizzbees and rubber balls then
taught them how to use skipping ropes and colouring books. When the children
wanted to learn a game reflecting her culture she explained how to play
baseball but didn’t have sports equipment. With the help of her translator
she encouraged the children to use a fence post for a baseball bat. Then she
found a vacant area and turned it into a playground. Angela had so many
cherished memories with children of all ages from the excursion it prompted her
to take her son, Vincent to Malawi Africa. At each village they stopped at she
distributed rolling-dice games so teenagers could share in the fun and gave
away hand-knit slippers to small children and elderly women who had no shoes.
In New York she attended the Beijing Conference at the United Nations. At one
particular caucus she listened to a guest speaker discuss landmine removal. She
was disturbed to lean about the on-going crises with continued use of
landmines. This impelled her to become involved in landmine removal and
research vital information to put in her 5th novel, Band Together Season of
Challenge.
Some of Angela Clarke’s most enjoyable hobbies are carpentry, skydiving,
skiing, herbal gardening, off-roading, and canoeing but her hobbies will be
ever-changing as long a she has a new character to develop.
Click here to view Angela Clarke's online interview with Books and Authors.net
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