Seafood for breakfast (lunch 'n' dinner) and visit owls, too Sep 14, 2009
A celebration for author Sarah Orne Jewett's 160th birthday (she's getting up there. from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13 on the grounds of the Sarah Orne Jewett and the Jewett-Eastman houses, at the intersection of routes 4 and 236 in South Berwick, Maine. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Summer reading series back at Blasco Tuesday Jul 12, 2009
" Two important writers died in 1909, Edward Everett Hale and Sarah Orne Jewett. Hale's classic story, "The Man Without a Country," was his Civil War-era response to those would contemplate disassociating themselves from the United States. "In the light of feelings generated by both the Bush and Obama administrations," says history teacher Ronald Spiller, "that's a theme worth talking about today. " Spiller will discuss Hale's "The Man Without a Country" on August 4. "If you want to be a writer... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Pontine premiere Apr 28, 2009
WHAT Sarah Orne Jewett's DUNNET LANDING STORIES ... Since then, Gathers and Mathews have written four theatrical productions based on Sarah Orne Jewett and her work; two jointly and two solo by Mathews ... "I couldn't put ...; those feelings into words. But I read Sarah Orne Jewett and she could." The performer-author first read Jewett while living in a two-room schoolhouse in South Berwick, back in the 1970s. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Scribblers of America, Unite! Mar 9, 2009
The celebrated get their dueHarriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrisonand so do the forgotten: Mercy Otis Warren, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Austin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Emma Lazarus, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, Meridel LeSueur, Ann Petry, and a host of others. Who decides which subjects matter; what voice is appropriate for what kind of story; what books get... (Slate)
