The Witches Speak at Russell Library Tuesday October 24!

On Tuesday, October 24 beginning at 6:30pm, two poets, Ginny Lowe Connors and Sherri Bedingfield, will be doing a tandem reading from their books on witches in the Hubbard Room of the Russell Library.

Ginny Lowe is the author Toward the Hanging Tree: poems of Salem Village, a collection of poems written from the perspective of those who were hung as witches in Salem, Massachusetts.  

'This is a never-before attempted, delightful collection of poems relating to the entire story of the Massachusetts witchcraft outbreak of 1692. Through Ginny Lowe Connors’ poetic artistry merged with solid research of historic facts, we glimpse the human heart’s response to terrifying events.” --Richard Trask, historian, expert on the Salem Witch Trials.

Sherri Bedingfield’s book, The Clattering: voices from Old Forgarshire, Scotland, centers on a single, true story of a woman accused of witchcraft in 17th century Scotland.

'With vivid and beautiful imagery, The Clattering provokes the conscience of the present with voices from the deep past. Bedingfield creates an enchanting world of rich emotion and concrete sensory experience where the lines between what's real and imagined are as intriguingly blurred as they are in life.” —David K. Leff

This reading is part of Russell Library's Authors Talk series, funded by The Friends of the Russell Library. The next Author Talk will be Edward A. Hagan speaking and reading from his book, To Vietnam in Vain.