I know, I know, its about darn time I updated this website! I’ve been scrambling to complete some projects that are due in May. Things are back to “normal” or will be soon.
I have been working with a committee of local folks on our second One Book, One Bristol project. We have decided to read Witness by Karen Hesse. The book is based on a true incident that took place in 1924 when the Ku Klux Klan came to Vermont. We are applying to have the author come to our town this fall. In the mean time, we need to get as many people as we can in the community reading the book. The novel is written for young adults but is a good book for everyone. It should generate some interesting conversations.
We started our free museum pass program yesterday. It is still a little early but we hope that the passes are well used. We have a great list of museums and historic sites included.
I am in the middle of an interesting book. It is called The Dante Club and is written by a very young first time author. It is about a group of Bostonians: Fields, a publisher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, (the son) a doctor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, and James Lowell, the writer, to translate The Inferno for the first time into English. Up to then the book is historical but becomes fiction when a series of murders based on Dante’s rings of hell begin to happen. I find it a challenging book because it is written in a way that is not how we speak, old-fashioned and complicated. But I am sticking with it because I want to know “who done it.”
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