The second collaboration of Chester County author Bruce Mowday and Chadds Ford artist Karl Kuerner, Emotional Brandywine, tells the story of the Battle of Brandywine through paintings and essays, writes Rich Schwartzman for Chadds Ford Live.

Their first collaboration, Emotional Gettysburg, focused on the Battle of Gettysburg.

Mowday is a former reporter and editor who has authored multiple books, several of which are about military histories.

“Emotional Brandywine tells the story, not only of Brandywine but of the American Revolution, of the patriots, and also the inner struggle among the different parts of the populace,” said Mowday. “We had the loyalists and people who wanted to stay out of it. We have the Quakers, of course. It’s such a great story.”

For Kuerner, who grew up in Chadds Ford, the book is more personal and emotional. One of the works that he painted is called September Past, which depicts a cannon overlooking Sandy Hollow.

“You look through that scene and you can almost envision the British coming out,” he said. “There’s an energy, a magic here. It’s part of the root system, for me anyway. I grew up here, and that makes a big difference.”

Read more about the collaboration of Emotional Brandywine in Chadds Ford Live.

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Award-winning journalist Bruce Mowday’s entire collection of books about local history including Lafayette At Brandywine: The Making of An American Hero and Stealing Wyeth about the the theft of 15 paintings from the Wyeth estate in Chadds Ford on Amazon.

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