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Media Updates
Ocean State Stories Interview
Press Release November 18, 2024
Ocean State Stories 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.
East Greenwich News Interview
Press Release November 18, 2024
Ocean State Stories Interview
Elizabeth McNamara interviews Joann and Jim in their home about their wedding in Married in Moscow.
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.
Upcoming Events
Multimedia presentations, Q&A, book signing by Joann and Jim Mead
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 6pm to 7pm
Newport Public Library, 300 Spring Street, Newport, RI
"Married in Moscow: Life in the Soviet Union and Putin's Russia Today"
SIGN UP https://newportlibraryri.libcal.com/event/14210708
June 1, 2025 Barrington Arts Festival - 10am to 4pm
June 14, 2025 Bristol State Street Art Festival - 10am to 4pm
Saturday, June 28, 2025 – 2pm to 3pm
Bigelow Free Public Library, 54 Walnut Street, Clinton, MA
“Life, teaching in Moscow, and Love in the Soviet Union”
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 – 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Swift Community Center, 121 Peirce Street, East Greenwich, RI
“Life, teaching in Moscow, and Love in the Soviet Union”
Registration Required
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 – 7pm to 8pm
Warwick Library, 600 Sandy Lane Warwick, RI 02889
“Life, teaching in Moscow, and Love in the Soviet Union”
August 9, 2025 The Looff Arts Festival - 11am to 5pm
Thursday, September 4, 2025 – 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Swift Community Center, 121 Peirce Street, East Greenwich, RI
“Life, teaching in Moscow, and Love in the Soviet Union”
Registration Required
Past Events
Saturday, March 1, 2025 - 10am to 12pm
Wakefield Books, 160 Old Tower Hill Road, Wakefield, RI
Meet and Greet and Book Signing
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11am to 2pm
Cumberland Library, 1464 Diamond Hill Road, 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
Stop by for "Sights and Sounds of the Soviet Union".
Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 3pm
Book Launch and signing!
Stillwater Books, 1745 Main Street, West Warwick, RI
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?