Hamilton Gillett reads “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

Join us Saturday, December 11 @ 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm or @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm for a special presentation of A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Because seating is limited, reservations are required.

Ham Gillett has been reading this Dylan Thomas classic during Wassail Weekend for more years than he can remember. Familiar faces return every year, some of them local and some not, to close their eyes and listen to Dylan’s matchless weaving of words and images.

In A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas, one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a child’s-eye view, and an adult’s fond memories, of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow.

“Our snow … came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely-ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like a dumb, numb thunder-storm of white, torn Christmas cards.” – Dylan Thomas

NOTE: Reservations are required, seating limited to 30. Please email programs@normanwilliams.org or call 802-457-2295. Masks must be worn in the library at all times.