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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Wellington Rollins | The Three Graces of Pearl Street
DESCRIPTION:The Yankee Bookshop\, Pentangle Arts\, and NWPL invite you to celebrate the publication of Elizabeth Wellington Rollins‘ debut novel\, The Three Graces of Pearl Street. \nWe’ll gather at Woodstock’s Town Hall Theatre on Thursday\, September 3\, at 7 pm to applaud this local author. Liz will talk about the themes of her novel – family\, food\, and community – and discuss her publishing journey with Laura Powell. \nThe Three Graces of Pearl Street paints a wise and warm portrait of an Italian American grandmother\, daughter\, and granddaughter all named after the Roman myth of the Three Graces. They find their lives – and their secrets – colliding when\, after years apart\, they come to live under the same roof. \nGraziella\, a ninety-six-year-old former nun\, spends her days running the parish’s food kitchen\, convinced it is her responsibility to keep everyone fed in their working-class New York neighborhood. Her daughter\, Grace\, a respected psychology professor\, appears accomplished and composed\, yet finds herself unmoored as her personal life falters. Ella – Graziella’s granddaughter and Grace’s daughter – is weary of defending her vegan diet and anti-capitalistic lifestyle; blind to her own brilliance\, she longs\, above all\, for a place to belong. Living together again\, the three Graces reckon with the distances that have shaped them\, and with what it means\, at last\, to be fully known. \n“A stunning debut. An intergenerational story full of the complexities of family life that will surprise and inspire you at every turn.” – Adriana Trigiani\, New York Times bestselling author \nElizabeth Wellington Rollins is a writer and award-winning copywriter. She grew up outside New York City and graduated from Davidson College. Her work has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler\, The Week\, Travel + Leisure\, and Vogue. Liz lives just a few miles from the Woodstock Green with her family. Her book is\, in part\, a love letter to her Italian maternal lineage\, as well as the place that raised her\, her parents\, and three grandparents. \nPlease visit the Yankee Bookshop (or their website) before September 1 for details about receiving a gift – including a small cookbook with recipes from the novel – when you pre-order The Three Graces of Pearl Street.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/rollins9-3926
LOCATION:Town Hall Theater\, 31 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Program
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SUMMARY:Warren Leach | Beyond Blooms: Design with Color\, Structure\, and Seasonal Senescence
DESCRIPTION:Warren Leach\, an award-winning landscape designer\, will present “Beyond Blooms: Design with Color\, Structure\, and Seasonal Senescence” to the Woodstock Garden Club at the Norman Williams Public Library. A social gathering begins at 12:30\, followed by the program at 1:00 pm. This is an open meeting\, and all are welcome. \nLocated in Rehoboth\, MA\, Leach’s Tranquil Lake Nursery specializes in daylilies\, irises\, distinctive perennials\, and woody plants. In this presentation\, he will highlight woody and herbaceous plants with good foliage color\, architectural structure\, multi-seasonal interest\, and stunning shape that can be used in a diversity of ways to complement flowers in a mixed border. \nWarren Leach has taught horticulture and landscape design at numerous horticultural institutions throughout the Northeast and has twice received the National Landscape Association Regional Certificate of Merit for Residential Design. He will have copies of his book\, Plants for the Winter Garden: Perennials\, Grasses\, Shrubs\, and Trees to Add Interest in the Cold and Snow\, available.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/w-leach
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T153000
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SUMMARY:Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature
DESCRIPTION:Gavin Van Horn\, editor\, and Heather Swan\, poetry editor\, selected essays and poetry for Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature that call attention to the wondrous ways in which humans and other-than-human beings experience and perceive the world\, not just through the senses but within them. \nHumans\, along with all other creatures\, are an entanglement of sensual relations\, shaping and shaped by our somatic engagement with the world. From the mating calls of chorus frogs to insect olfaction to elephant funerary rites to the memory-rich tastes of place\, Sensoria offers an immersion in the sensual experiences of seeing\, hearing\, touching\, tasting\, and smelling—and their interactions\, combinations\, and more-than-human manifestations. \nThe contributors to Sensoria—including music composer David Rothenberg\, historian of color Carolyn Purnell\, bio-philosopher Andreas Weber\, filmmaker Kalyanee Mam\, neuroethologist Bill Hansson\, travel writer and novelist Nick Hunt\, and religious scholar Graham Harvey—explore and illuminate the biology and neurology of sensation as well as the imaginative possibilities for understanding the senses. \nCo-hosted by the Yankee Bookshop\, books will be available for purchase and signing. \n+++ \nGavin Van Horn\, PhD\, is the executive editor of Humans & Nature Press Books\, the author of The Way of Coyote\, and the co-editor of City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness\, Wildness: Relations of People and Place\, the award-winning five-volume series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations\, and the five-volume series Elementals. He currently resides in San Luis Obispo\, California\, where you can find him wandering the nearby hills and shores\, senses awakened by sage\, hummingbirds\, and ocean air. \nHeather Swan\, PhD\, is a poet and nonfiction writer. She is the author of Where the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection and Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Penn State Press) winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. Her poetry collection A Kinship with Ash (Terrapin Books)\, was a finalist for the ASLE Book Award and long-listed for the Julie Suk Award. A second collection\, Dandelion\, was published in 2023. She teaches environmental literature and writing in Madison\, Wisconsin.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/sensoria10-3-26
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Program
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SUMMARY:Emily Franklin | Love & Other Monsters.
DESCRIPTION:The NWPL and Yankee Bookshop welcome Emily Franklin to talk about her newest novel\, Love & Other Monsters. \nIn the stormy\, scandalous summer of 1816\, daring eighteen-year-old Claire Clairmont changed the course of literature forever. But then — unlike her stepsister Mary Shelley — she was forgotten\, until now. With searing relevance to our here and now — of celebrity worship\, climate disaster\, of complicated femininity\, Love & Other Monsters is the untold origin story of Frankenstein\, a feminist reckoning of sisters\, survival\, and the creation of monsters — both those on the page and those who walk among us. \nEmily Franklin is the bestselling author of more than twenty books\, including a poetry collection\, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her work has been published in The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Journal of the American Medical Association\, read aloud on National Public Radio\, named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries\, and longlisted for the London Sunday Times Short Story Award. Her novel The Lioness of Boston\, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner\, is in its tenth printing. \nYankee Bookshop will be on hand with copies of Love & Other Monsters.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/e-franklin-11-10-26
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T103000
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SUMMARY:Michael J. Caduto | The Day the Pond Flew South
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer and educator Michael J. Caduto will read his new picture book\, The Day the Pond Flew South. It tells the story of Loon\, who lands on a small pond from which there is no escape\, though her friends try everything they can to help her fly away. As winter sets in and the pond begins to freeze\, the birds invent an ingenious plan that will take every single wingbeat to save their friend. \nAfter reading the book\, the author will share a Tsimshian tale from Alaska about a loon that restores a blind man’s sight and is rewarded with the gift of its beautiful necklace. Participants may create their own “loon’s necklace” of string and beads to symbolize their relationship with this remarkable bird. \nCo-hosted by Yankee Bookshop; books will be available for purchase and signing.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/m-caduto-11-14-26
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Children & Family Programs,Special Program,Youth Programs
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