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Rye Public Library welcomes local author Jack Driscoll to read and discuss his recent book Picnic for Twelve: A Memoir of the Driscoll Family designed and produced locally by Piscataqua Press in Portsmouth. Mr. Driscoll, former editor of the Boston Globe, is an 18 year resident of Rye, founder of the much loved Rye Reflections newsletter, and author of two books. Driscoll used Rye Public Library genealogy resources along with courtship letters, diary notes by his mother, and other writings in the research conducted during compilation of his family memoir. The book traces his father’s early years in the religious life, his mother’s move from Ireland to Westfield, Mass., USA, at age 5 and the impact of two World Wars and the Depression. But mostly the book is about their day-to-day living, taking the reader into his family’s home with all the bedlam, troubles and joys–mostly joys—therein. The family lived in Western Mass. in the 1920s and moved almost on an impulse to California in 1929 and through the height of the Depression. Certainly the roller-coaster life in California, surrounded by movie stars, adds spice to the family story, but so too do the trips to and from the West Coast: By cruise ship SS California to get there and in a 1927 Packard with seven children to return to the East. Driscoll’s father Frank provided a motto that set the tone for those trips and beyond: “Let’s just consider each day as a picnic.” Join us to learn more about the research process and hear excerpts from this enjoyable book.
Rye Public Library welcomes local author Jack Driscoll to read and discuss his recent book Picnic for Twelve: A Memoir of the Driscoll Family designed and produced locally by Piscataqua Press in Portsmouth. Mr. Driscoll, former editor of the Boston Globe, is an 18 year resident of Rye, founder of the much loved Rye Reflections newsletter, and author of two books. Driscoll used Rye Public Library genealogy resources along with courtship letters, diary notes by his mother, and other writings in the research conducted during compilation of his family memoir. The book traces his father’s early years in the religious life, his mother’s move from Ireland to Westfield, Mass., USA, at age 5 and the impact of two World Wars and the Depression. But mostly the book is about their day-to-day living, taking the reader into his family’s home with all the bedlam, troubles and joys–mostly joys—therein. The family lived in Western Mass. in the 1920s and moved almost on an impulse to California in 1929 and through the height of the Depression. Certainly the roller-coaster life in California, surrounded by movie stars, adds spice to the family story, but so too do the trips to and from the West Coast: By cruise ship SS California to get there and in a 1927 Packard with seven children to return to the East. Driscoll’s father Frank provided a motto that set the tone for those trips and beyond: “Let’s just consider each day as a picnic.” Join us to learn more about the research process and hear excerpts from this enjoyable book.
Rye Public Library welcomes local author Jack Driscoll to read and discuss his recent book Picnic for Twelve: A Memoir of the Driscoll Family designed and produced locally by Piscataqua Press in Portsmouth. Mr. Driscoll, former editor of the Boston Globe, is an 18 year resident of Rye, founder of the much loved Rye Reflections newsletter, and author of two books. Driscoll used Rye Public Library genealogy resources along with courtship letters, diary notes by his mother, and other writings in the research conducted during compilation of his family memoir. The book traces his father’s early years in the religious life, his mother’s move from Ireland to Westfield, Mass., USA, at age 5 and the impact of two World Wars and the Depression. But mostly the book is about their day-to-day living, taking the reader into his family’s home with all the bedlam, troubles and joys–mostly joys—therein. The family lived in Western Mass. in the 1920s and moved almost on an impulse to California in 1929 and through the height of the Depression. Certainly the roller-coaster life in California, surrounded by movie stars, adds spice to the family story, but so too do the trips to and from the West Coast: By cruise ship SS California to get there and in a 1927 Packard with seven children to return to the East. Driscoll’s father Frank provided a motto that set the tone for those trips and beyond: “Let’s just consider each day as a picnic.” Join us to learn more about the research process and hear excerpts from this enjoyable book.
Rye Public Library welcomes local author Jack Driscoll to read and discuss his recent book Picnic for Twelve: A Memoir of the Driscoll Family designed and produced locally by Piscataqua Press in Portsmouth. Mr. Driscoll, former editor of the Boston Globe, is an 18 year resident of Rye, founder of the much loved Rye Reflections newsletter, and author of two books. Driscoll used Rye Public Library genealogy resources along with courtship letters, diary notes by his mother, and other writings in the research conducted during compilation of his family memoir. The book traces his father’s early years in the religious life, his mother’s move from Ireland to Westfield, Mass., USA, at age 5 and the impact of two World Wars and the Depression. But mostly the book is about their day-to-day living, taking the reader into his family’s home with all the bedlam, troubles and joys–mostly joys—therein. The family lived in Western Mass. in the 1920s and moved almost on an impulse to California in 1929 and through the height of the Depression. Certainly the roller-coaster life in California, surrounded by movie stars, adds spice to the family story, but so too do the trips to and from the West Coast: By cruise ship SS California to get there and in a 1927 Packard with seven children to return to the East. Driscoll’s father Frank provided a motto that set the tone for those trips and beyond: “Let’s just consider each day as a picnic.” Join us to learn more about the research process and hear excerpts from this enjoyable book.
Join local authors K.D. Mason (Killer Run) and Kathleen Lockwood (Major League Bride) as they read from and discuss their latest works here at Rye Public Library.
Kathleen Lockwood and her husband ,former Red Sox pitcher Skip Lockwood, currently live in Rye, NH. During Skip’s career in the major leagues, Kathleen spent twelve years in the company of exceptional women on six different teams as her husband was periodically traded, sold, sent down, brought up, and released. Her memoir, Major League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark, is a diary of growth, a journal of struggle, and an account of bizarrely truthful stranger-than-fiction events involving eccentric teammates.
Doug Zechel, former owner of Saunders at Rye Harbor, is a lifelong runner and sailor. With a new endeavor, writing under the pseudonym K.D. Mason, Zechel lives on the New Hampshire seacoast with his wife of over 40 years and two cats, Molly and Sweet Pea. They have two grown children, a son who lives in Las Vegas with his wife and step daughter, and a daughter who with her husband and their daughter now live in California. Recently retired from a lifetime of working in the restaurant business, he now weaves compelling tales of mystery, romance and suspense set on the NH Seacoast.
Join local authors K.D. Mason (Killer Run) and Kathleen Lockwood (Major League Bride) as they read from and discuss their latest works here at Rye Public Library.
Kathleen Lockwood and her husband ,former Red Sox pitcher Skip Lockwood, currently live in Rye, NH. During Skip’s career in the major leagues, Kathleen spent twelve years in the company of exceptional women on six different teams as her husband was periodically traded, sold, sent down, brought up, and released. Her memoir, Major League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark, is a diary of growth, a journal of struggle, and an account of bizarrely truthful stranger-than-fiction events involving eccentric teammates.
Doug Zechel, former owner of Saunders at Rye Harbor, is a lifelong runner and sailor. With a new endeavor, writing under the pseudonym K.D. Mason, Zechel lives on the New Hampshire seacoast with his wife of over 40 years and two cats, Molly and Sweet Pea. They have two grown children, a son who lives in Las Vegas with his wife and step daughter, and a daughter who with her husband and their daughter now live in California. Recently retired from a lifetime of working in the restaurant business, he now weaves compelling tales of mystery, romance and suspense set on the NH Seacoast.
Join local authors K.D. Mason (Killer Run) and Kathleen Lockwood (Major League Bride) as they read from and discuss their latest works here at Rye Public Library.
Kathleen Lockwood and her husband ,former Red Sox pitcher Skip Lockwood, currently live in Rye, NH. During Skip’s career in the major leagues, Kathleen spent twelve years in the company of exceptional women on six different teams as her husband was periodically traded, sold, sent down, brought up, and released. Her memoir, Major League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark, is a diary of growth, a journal of struggle, and an account of bizarrely truthful stranger-than-fiction events involving eccentric teammates.
Doug Zechel, former owner of Saunders at Rye Harbor, is a lifelong runner and sailor. With a new endeavor, writing under the pseudonym K.D. Mason, Zechel lives on the New Hampshire seacoast with his wife of over 40 years and two cats, Molly and Sweet Pea. They have two grown children, a son who lives in Las Vegas with his wife and step daughter, and a daughter who with her husband and their daughter now live in California. Recently retired from a lifetime of working in the restaurant business, he now weaves compelling tales of mystery, romance and suspense set on the NH Seacoast.
Join us as Rye Public Library presents author Nancy Sporborg and Pat Piper as they discuss Nancy’s book : It’s Not About the Hike. This is a presentation that will bring you into your heart, lift your spirits, and inspire you to climb that next mountain in your life. It is not a presentation of “look at these two women…see what they did.” It is a presentation of “look inside you…you can do it too.” You will want to go back and hear it again and again, bringing friends and family to share the experience.
We all have our own mountains to climb. Your mountain may be a 4,000-footer in the White Mountains. But it could also be going to college, getting a job, bringing up children, caring for aging parents or dealing with an illness. Maybe your mountain is reorganizing a business, tackling a difficult project, losing weight or starting an exercise program. It’s your own personal mountain and it is hard.
Join us as Rye Public Library presents author Nancy Sporborg and Pat Piper as they discuss Nancy’s book : It’s Not About the Hike. This is a presentation that will bring you into your heart, lift your spirits, and inspire you to climb that next mountain in your life. It is not a presentation of “look at these two women…see what they did.” It is a presentation of “look inside you…you can do it too.” You will want to go back and hear it again and again, bringing friends and family to share the experience.
We all have our own mountains to climb. Your mountain may be a 4,000-footer in the White Mountains. But it could also be going to college, getting a job, bringing up children, caring for aging parents or dealing with an illness. Maybe your mountain is reorganizing a business, tackling a difficult project, losing weight or starting an exercise program. It’s your own personal mountain and it is hard.
Join us as Rye Public Library presents author Nancy Sporborg and Pat Piper as they discuss Nancy’s book : It’s Not About the Hike. This is a presentation that will bring you into your heart, lift your spirits, and inspire you to climb that next mountain in your life. It is not a presentation of “look at these two women…see what they did.” It is a presentation of “look inside you…you can do it too.” You will want to go back and hear it again and again, bringing friends and family to share the experience.
We all have our own mountains to climb. Your mountain may be a 4,000-footer in the White Mountains. But it could also be going to college, getting a job, bringing up children, caring for aging parents or dealing with an illness. Maybe your mountain is reorganizing a business, tackling a difficult project, losing weight or starting an exercise program. It’s your own personal mountain and it is hard.
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