- window painting of Main Street, Chatham. Roger Mason �2014
Roger Mason's paintings continue on exhibit at the bookstore through January 12, 2015 - the new window painting of Main Street on view day and night!
And here's to the gladness of this word picture of Chatham painted by poet, Peter Kane Dufault -
I look out over half an acre
of tarmac and a gas station
to St. James', where the big bell
clamors nine times in its tower
of red sandstone, scattering pigeons,
gathering families, in blues, greens, vermilions
that blink out in the vestibule
like toys tumbled into a box;
and further on, the late shoppers crowding both sides of the street, each storefront a little glacier calving white parcels, to bob in the pedestrian torrent. . .
- excerpt from "Christmas Figures (Chatham, N.Y.)"
Carlo DeVito will read from his new book, Inventing Scrooge: The Incredible True Story Behind Dickens' Legendary "A Christmas Carol."
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Thursday, December 11, 5-7 pm
Conrad Vispo, an ecologist and educator at the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will read from his new book, The Nature of the Place: A History of Living with the Land in Columbia County, NY
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Both events are at the Chatham Bookstore, 27 Main Street, Chatham, New York. A conversation with Thomas Chulak from the bookstore and a Q&A follow the readings. These events are free. Refreshments will be served.
If you can't come to an event, but would like a signed copy of a book, email or call us at 518.392.3005 and we'll put one aside for you.