Here’s what you missed in 2021 …
Thank you to the Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation grant made possible by the Keroden Endowed Fund. The grant funds were used to offset costs for the author stipends.
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Haystack Book Festival brings writers into conversation on a wide range of topics to celebrate ideas and discourse.
The program for 2021 includeD the following events:
Friday, October 1
The Brendan Gill Lecture, 6:00PM
Robert Jones, Jr., bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novel The Prophets, a singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
Link to the session recording - click HERE
Saturday, October 2
Freedom in Black and White
10:00AM
Tyler Stovall, the author of White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea,
In conversation with:
Manisha Sinha, the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.
Link to the session recording - click HERE
“A Soul Admitted to Itself”: Solitude, Sociability, and Poetry
12:00 PM
Fenton Johnson, author of At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life,
In conversation with:
Margaret Gibson, CT State Poet Laureate, and the author of Not Hearing the Wood Thrush: Poems and The Glass Globe: Poems.
Link to the session recording - click HERE
The Hidden Lives of Ordinary Things
2:30PM
Object Lessons Series – Three authors in conversation: Dinah Lenney, Kim Adrian and Matthew Battles
Object Lessons is an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things, from sardines to silence, juniper berries to jumper cables. Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation—and from there develop original insights around and novel lessons about the object in question.
Dinah Lenney, the author of Coffee
Kim Adrian, the author of Sock
Matthew Battles, the author of Tree
Link to the session recording - click HERE
Sunday, October 3
I Caught This Morning Morning’s Minion, Kingdom of Daylight’s Dauphin...”
10:00am
A bird walk on Dennis Hill (CT State Park) with Sharon Audubon Center director Eileen Fielding.
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VIRTUAL EVENT ONLY
What It’s Like to Be a Bird – David Allen Sibley
1:00 PM
David Allen Sibley, author of What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing - What Birds Are Doing and Why
Link to the session recording - click HERE
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ABOUT HAYSTACK BOOK FESTIVAL, a program of the norfolk foundation, inc.
Haystack Book Festival is a stand-alone book festival that is sponsored by the Norfolk Foundation with patronage from residents and businesses in Norfolk, CT. Our objective is to bring writers and thinkers together in unmoderated conversation to explore new ideas, concepts, and designs, in literature and in the arts. As well as exploring nature and its relationship to humans and other beings, and the beauty of the Earth, among other topics. www.norfolkfoundation.net/book-talks
Haystack Book Festival is sponsored by the Norfolk Foundation, a 501©3 private operating foundation, is dedicated to contributing to the vitality and sustainability of the town of Norfolk, Connecticut, particularly in relationship top the town’s natural setting and multiple artistic and cultural attractions. www.norfolkfoundation.net
PLAN YOUR VISIT
Visit Norfolk, Connecticut, for the Haystack Book Festival. Visit the town site to plan your visit this October.