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Jim Cooke was born in Vermont. He performs
his own scripts: Calvin Coolidge: More Than Two Words, Daniel
Webster: I Still Live! and Edward Everett -- the Other Speaker
at Gettysburg. These three dead white men have been heard on National Public
Radio and seen on C-SPAN and have taken Jim around the country. Often consulted by
editors, scholars and historians, Jim insists he is not himself a scholar. He
believes that artists have a higher standard for truth than scholars. The best thing
he has ever done was to marry Patricia Busacker. They have two cats, Spot and
Dan. I met Jim while undertaking research for my novel Seeing Calvin Coolidge in
a Dream. His claim to be "the world's leading Calvin Coolidge
impersonator" is, so far as we know, unchallenged.
Patricia Busacker is a
poet, children's author and medical writer with a background in television and
journalism. Born in Missouri, she grew up in Nebraska, then lived for a time in
Colorado before moving to New England. She is active in One on One, the
mass mentoring partnership, working as a mentor with young writers. Patricia has
travelled widely and written on many subjects. 36 Great American Poems is
her first recording, though she is no stranger to sound studios and has produced an audio
tape of selections from The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge read by her husband,
Jim Cooke.