I have been acquainted with Jody Stewart for years. She is a fellow Hawleyite.I feel as though I only started to get to know her when I interviewed...
“10,000 Days in the Woods: The Beginning”by H. Russell RichardsonDragon Brook PublishingIn 2019, Russ Richardson was hospitalized for a severe...
“More Than Friends”Edited by Patti SmithLight PublishingI am old enough to recall that there were communes in our area in the late 1960s and 1970s....
“Genius of the Swamp” by Dale MonetteHaley’s, 120 pagesHaley’s Publishing in Athol has cemented its commitment to local authors and the local...
Christine Copeland of Northfield takes a walk in the woods every morning with her dog. Those walks inspired her to begin a series of children’s...
Unexpectedly, our rural area houses a number of writers and scholars with a wide range of interests, including Kathe Geist.Geist, who spent decades...
‘A Way Up the North Fork” is subtitled “A Girl’s Search for Home in the Wilderness.” The subtitle is apt.In the early 1970s, Annie Chappell was...
Jorma Kansanen first considered penning young-adult (YA) fantasy in the late 1990s. He was employed at the athletics department at the University...
“Pilgrim Maya” by Bela Breslau and Stephen Billias (Odeon Press, 372 pages, $16)As “Pilgrim Maya” opens, its heroine is immersed in sadness. Maya...
“Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend” by Judith R. Hiltner and James R. Walker (University of Nebraska Press, 544 pages, $36...
Mystery writer Joan Livingston of Shelburne Falls has found her calling.Actually, she has found several callings over the years, and she has...
“Everything Will Be All Right” by Constance Emmett (Next Chapter, 312 pages, $11.99; also available as an eBook)Constance Emmett of Hawley...