6/29/11

2011 Meetinghouse Readings - Frontiers of Love, Language, and American History

Canaan Town Library is presenting the 22nd year of thir Meetinghouse Readings series. Here's the announcement:

 Four Evenings Of Storytelling and Poetry By Great Authors!

This year's edition of the Meetinghouse Readings features outstanding poets Major Jackson and Carol Westberg, the go-for-broke short stories of Creston Lea and the deep family drama of Katharine Britton's debut novel, Her Sister's Shadow. Groundbreaking narrative histories by Neil Goodwin and Tom Powers retell, respectively, the Revolutionary War raid on Royalton, Vermont and the end of effective Native American resistance in the far West with the killing of Crazy Horse. Cultural historian Howard Mansfield looks at how time and place are coming undone in our ultra-mobile Internet era, and Sally Brady's memoir, A Box of Darkness: The Story of a Marriage looks at ties that bind even when trust is broken.

It's going to be a great season of readings at this unique, grassroots literary festival. Join us!

July 7, 2011

MAJOR JACKSON Holding Company: Poems

HOWARD MANSFIELD Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart

July 14, 2011

CRESTON LEA Wild Punch

NEIL GOODWIN We Go As Captives: The Royalton Raid and the Shadow War on the Revolutionary Frontier

July 21, 2011

KATHARINE BRITTON Her Sister's Shadow

SALLY BRADY A Box of Darkness: The Story of a Marriage

JULY 28, 2011

TOM POWERS The Killing of Crazy Horse

CAROL WESTBERG Slipstream


In The 1793 Meetinghouse In Canaan, N.H.'s Historic District, Opposite The Beach On Canaan Street Lake. SUPERB ENTERTAINMENT BY SOME OF THE NATION'S FINEST WRITERS.
FREE ADMISSION AND REFRESHMENTS.

Sponsors include James Laffan, Esq., Timothy J. Caldwell Estate Planning!!!

Authors' Books For Sale, courtesy of the Norwich Bookstore

Hosted By William Craig

ALL READINGS BEGIN AT 7:30 P.M..

Please, No Infants, Toddlers or Squirmers!

Directions: Route 4 to the blinking light in Canaan; 2 miles up Canaan Street to the Old Meetinghouse

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