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• “Lou, The Prophet.” Willa Cather Short Story Project • Jan 2021 Reminder

  By Chris Wolak on January 6, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Happy New Year! Our first story for Phase II of the Willa Cather Short Story Project is “Lou, The Prophet.” Cather was nineteen when this story appeared in the October 15, 1892 edition of The Hesperian, the University of Nebraska’s… Read More ›

• Library Visit: Rathbun Free Memorial Library

  By Chris Wolak on December 31, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  Here we are at our last, but certainly not least, library post of the year. The Rathbun Free Memorial Library is sister to last month’s featured library, the East Haddam Free Public Library (click here to check out that post)…. Read More ›

• Get Ready for Phase II of the Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on December 24, 2020 • ( 12 )

  

  Starting January 2021 Get ready, Cather enthusiasts! After wrapping up Phase I in September 2020, Phase II of the Willa Cather Short Story Project will kick off in January 2021. The fortytwo (42!) stories in this phase span from 1892,… Read More ›

• Library Stop: East Haddam Free Public Library

  By Chris Wolak on November 30, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  Last weekend we made a delivery to a friend who lives in Moodus, Connecticut. Moodus, population 1,413 per the 2010 census, is a village in the town of East Haddam (population 9,126). I looked up the origin of the name… Read More ›

• The Street by Ann Petry

  By Chris Wolak on November 27, 2020 • ( 13 )

  

  Hello, Friend! It’s been a while since I’ve written here — almost a month! Usually, I aim to post at least once a week, but November was a busy month and a special project pulled a lot of my attention…. Read More ›

• Library Stop: Welles-Turner Memorial Library

  By Chris Wolak on October 31, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Harriet Welles Turner Burnham (1856-1931) left money for the creation of the Welles-Turner Memorial Library in Glastonbury, CT. Enjoy this photo essay of the library’s external architecture.

• SUDDEN SEA: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti

  By Chris Wolak on October 10, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  “No one will ever know the strength of the winds in the Great Hurricane of 1938, because they destroyed every instrument designed to measure them.” — R.A. Scotti, Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 Like a lot of folks,… Read More ›

• Library Stop: South Glastonbury Public Library

  By Chris Wolak on September 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  This month’s library post features the South Glastonbury Public Library. Regular readers of this blog may remember that last month I shared photos of the East Glastonbury Public Library. When you see this sign on the main thoroughfare, obey that… Read More ›

• The End of Phase One! The Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on September 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Thank you! Well, here we are at the end of Phase One of the Willa Cather Short Story Project. Thank you to everyone who has participated over the last twenty months! Some folks like Kate and Robin have read along… Read More ›

• My Big Book Summer Challenge Wrap-Up

  By Chris Wolak on September 17, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  I managed to read four 400+ page books for Sue of Book By Book’s Big Book Summer Reading Challenge.

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