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Media Updates
East Greenwich News Interview
Press Release November 18, 2024
East Greenwich News Interview
Elizabeth McNamara interviews Joann and Jim in their home about their wedding in Married in Moscow.
Ocean State Stories Interview
Press Release November 18, 2024
East Greenwich News Interview
G. Wayne Miller interviewed Joann and Jim about their book Married in Moscow. From the Pell Center at Salve Regina University in Newport Rhode Island.
Press Release November 18, 2024
Press Release November 18, 2024
Press Release November 18, 2024
Steve Porter from Stillwater Press publishes the Press Release for Married in Moscow: A Red-hot Memoir in Cold War Times.
Events
FUTURE EVENTS
Saturday, June 27, 2026, Mt. Vernon Lodge, ARIA Authors event, 10 am to 4:00 pm, North Kingstown, RI
Saturday, August 1, 2026, Bristol State Street Fair, Bristol, RI
Sunday, August 15, 2026, ARIA EXPO, Crowne Plaza, Warwick, RI
PAST EVENTS
Saturday, May 9, 2026, Swift Center Gym, ARIA Authors event, 1:OO to 4:00pm, East Greenw
FUTURE EVENTS
Saturday, June 27, 2026, Mt. Vernon Lodge, ARIA Authors event, 10 am to 4:00 pm, North Kingstown, RI
Saturday, August 1, 2026, Bristol State Street Fair, Bristol, RI
Sunday, August 15, 2026, ARIA EXPO, Crowne Plaza, Warwick, RI
PAST EVENTS
Saturday, May 9, 2026, Swift Center Gym, ARIA Authors event, 1:OO to 4:00pm, East Greenwich, RI
Thursday, May 7, 2026 EG Leisure Learning, East Greenwich, RI
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Ragged Island Brewery
1:00-3:00 PM Portsmouth, RI
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Cumberland Public Library, RI 1:00-4:00 pm
Book Lovers’ Local Author Expo
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Tower Hill Brewery, 6:00-8:30 pm
South Kingstown, RI
Sunday, January 4, 2026 4:30–5:30 PM, The Road Church, 903 Pequot Trail, Stonington, CT
October 25, 2025 - 10:00am to 6:00pm, Boston Book Festival, Copley Square
ARIA Rhode Island Author Association #16
October 12, 2025 - 10:00am to 5:00pm
Scituate Art Festival, North Scituate, RI
September 4, 2025 – 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Swift Community Center, East Greenwich, RI
August 9, 2025 The Looff Arts Festival - 12 noon to 6pm
Crescent Park, East Providence, RI
August 5, 2025 - Harmony Library, 6pm to 7pm
Married in Moscow: A Red-hot Memoir in Cold War Times
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 – 7pm to 8pm
Warwick Public Library, Warwick, RI
"Married in Moscow: Life During the Cold War"
July 9, 2025 – 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Swift Community Center, East Greenwich, RI
Married in Moscow: A Red-hot Memoir in Cold War Times
June 28, 2025 – 2pm to 3pm
Bigelow Free Public Library, Clinton, MA
June 1, 2025 Barrington Arts Festival RI - 10am to 4pm
Barrington, RI
June 7, 2025 Share the Love Festival, 11am to 3pm
The Road Church, Stonington, CT Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 6pm to 7pm Newport Public Library
Lively multimedia talk, Q&A, "Married in Moscow: Life in the Soviet Union and Putin's Russia Today"
Saturday, May 10, 2025 – 9am to 3pm Warwick Public Library Vendors and Book Sale
Saturday, March 1, 2025 - 10am to 12pm
Wakefield Books, Wakefield, RI
Meet and Greet and Book Signing
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11am to 2pm
Cumberland Library, Cumberland, RI
2025 Book Lovers Local Author Expo Book Signing and Presentation
Saturday, December 7, 2024 10am-4pm
The 12th Annual Rhode Island Author Expo in the Crowne Plaza Ballroom
Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 3pm
Book Launch and signing!
Stillwater Books, West Warwick, RI
Schedule a Lively Talk!
Joann and Jim Mead, authors of Married in Moscow: A Red-hot Memoir in Cold War Times, for a lively presentation filled with stories, rare images, music, and conversation. From 1979 to 1981, Joann and Jim lived and taught at the Anglo-American School, Moscow during a turbulent era of Cold War politics. In this talk, we will share:
- Our unc
Joann and Jim Mead, authors of Married in Moscow: A Red-hot Memoir in Cold War Times, for a lively presentation filled with stories, rare images, music, and conversation. From 1979 to 1981, Joann and Jim lived and taught at the Anglo-American School, Moscow during a turbulent era of Cold War politics. In this talk, we will share:
- Our unconventional Moscow wedding
- Rare photographs, dissident art, and Soviet propaganda posters
- Insights into the suppression of dissidents, artists, journalists, and political prisoners
- Travel adventures across the USSR, and reflections on how today’s Russia is shaped by its past
The program includes a Q&A session, and books will be available for signing. Enjoy an engaging look at history, politics, and personal adventure from two unique voices who lived it firsthand!
Inquiries to jjmead@live.com
New Book Release with photographs
A Memoir and more...
A California wild child and a mad Englishman meet in Cold War Moscow during tumultuous times. The world was changing. So were the lives of two teachers at the Anglo-American School in Moscow. He’s fun-loving and philosophical. She’s free-spirited and unbound by rules. They tell their story in two very different voices. It is a complicated love story, during precarious years, back in the USSR.
Vetted by the Foreign Colonial Office in London, Jim’s politics were questioned, but he assured the interrogator that he was not a communist. When he arrived, he had a lot to learn. How to drive a car, skate, shop, and teach Kindergarten.
Briefed by the American Embassy on Soviet rules and regulations, Joann thought the rules didn’t apply to her. From her illegal photos of tanks and missiles to traveling in areas “closed to foreigners”, Joann skated on thin ice.
Hostilities between East and West in the 1970s and early 1980s escalated. Foreigners were bugged, followed, and suspected of spying. The Soviets invaded Afghanistan and the US and UK boycotted the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics nixing Jim and Joann’s summer jobs with NBC.
Expect the unexpected on a round-the-world journey, when at an eastern seaport closed to foreigners, the Soviets frog-march and detain Joann. Jim refuses to board the Far East Steamship to Japan. Will Joann finally get her comeuppance?