Hi. I’m Pat Walsh, and this is my website, www.EchoesAmongtheStars.com.
This site began as an online home for information about my first book, Echoes Among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program, which was published in 2000 by M.E. Sharpe, Inc. It has since expanded to include information about the cornucopia of projects that I’ve been involved with in recent years.
In addition to my research and writing about the history of space exploration, I’ve also enjoyed an eclectic career as an independent journalist, publishing more than 250 articles on a wide array of topics since the mid-1990s.
Following the publication of Echoes Among the Stars, I began work on a number of long-term projects, and have since completed manuscripts for several novels, a full-length musical play and several shorter dramatic works, and a short documentary film. I’ve also continued, sporadically and not nearly as much as I’d like -- to compose music, both as a means of observing and documenting experiences and in support of my other projects.
As if all that weren’t enough, I’ve also worked in the past as a college professor, an Information Systems Manager, and a marketing consultant -- all of which, while not active pursuits of mine at the moment, were activities which I greatly enjoyed and am glad to recall, if even just to tip my cap to all the great people who I worked with and got to know in each of those situations.
Images from upper left: Echoes the book; Pat yesterday and today; the Moon as seen from the author’s back yard; the music journalist at an event; taking a break, with camera close at hand; a silhouette in the suburbs; and the sometimes composer at work, on the fabled honey blond Yamaha Pacifica.
Patrick J. Walsh
