The Town of Cable has three individuals who have placed their names in contention for the Town Chairmanship, which necessitates a Primary Election. In an effort to give the prospective candidates an opportunity to talk about why they are running, and area voters a chance to hear from them, the Forest Lodge Library has scheduled…
THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah I had not read any of Kristin Hannah’s works before this, but it has been popular, and the location intrigued me: Alaska. It is a coming-of-age novel that is pretty intense. It’s 1974; Leni is 13 and lives in Seattle with her mom, Cora, and her POW father, Ernt.…
Transcription by Kate Atkinson I really enjoyed Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series, and was looking forward to her newest stand alone novel. Juliet is an 18 year old woman in 1940s England and is recruited into MI5. She is charged with transcribing meetings between British Fascist sympathizers and an undercover British agent. She is soon asked…
Fox 8 is the shortest book that I read in 2018. At 28 pages it’s a little bitty thing. You know the old saying about good things coming in small packages? It is true. This slim volume packs a decisive wallop. Fox 8 is the strange one in the pack, known as a dreamer. This…
We are now two years into our “project” and, while it may look like not much has changed, progress has, in fact, been made. In our last installment we explained that we had interviewed a number of architects and that we had determined that it would be useful to visit properties that they had been…
We’re excited to share the news that the work on our fireplace is complete, the gas insert has been installed, it looks and works great and, for possibly the first time since there was a wood fire in the fireplace, that end of the building is warm and cozy. So…c’mon in and cozy up in…