Hadley has a long and varied record of civic and political involvement, from chairman of the Richfield, Minnesota 4th of July parade to Minnesota director of Patrick Buchanan's 1996 presidential campaign. From 1995 to 1999 he served on the Planning Commission for the city of Richfield. From 1996 to 1998 he was the host and executive producer of the television political discussion series Richfield Republicans on TV, and in 1998 he was a candidate for the Minnesota State House of Representatives.
As readers of Our Word know, he has written extensively about politics, history, classical music and television. He has authored several articles on classic television for the website TVParty.com, and his article Three Kings in 50 Minutes, about the classic Christmas television opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, is also available at OperaAmerica.org.
His first novel, The Car, is scheduled to be published later in 2010. A second novel, Graveyard of the Elephants, is in progress.
He currently works for a financial institution in downtown Minneapolis.
Harris began his writing career in the late '50s when he tried to create a neighborhood-based newsletter on a kiddie printing press he got for Christmas. He went on to become Sports Editor of the Santa Clara (CA) High Times, Sports Editor of the West Valley Norseman, News Editor of the Bethel Clarion, and a free-lancer with published articles in the Star-Tribune, Leadership Journal, The Seminarian, Perspective Magazine, The Old Times, The Standard, Minnesota Sports, the Fillmore County Journal, and other periodicals. He helped on one book, is writing one of his own, and has wonderful ideas for yet others in collaboration with the aforementioned Mr. White.
A former pastor, teacher and school administrator, he currently works in the nonprofit world in grant writing and communications and is a B & B innkeeper in Lanesboro, Minnesota.
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