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Meet-and-Greet and Book Signing with George Colt

From Stream of Consciousness to the Well-Built Sentence: A Life Spent Working with Words

Taking as starting points five Thoreauvian apercus, George Howe Colt will discuss lessons learned from a half-century of writing, touching on such topics as how a reader becomes a writer, what it means to write from the inside out, how to see the forest and the trees, and what happens when two writers marry.

Fee: $25, which includes admission to the 7pm talk and a $5 voucher towards the purchase of one of George’s books from the Thoreau Society Bookshop that will be selling books at the event.

*Must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination to enter the live event.

Date

Jun 03 2022
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Time

6:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Thoreau Farm
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