December Signings:
CATHIE PELLETIER/CHRISTMAS BOOK TOUR, DECEMBER 2014
December 4: MADAWASKA, Inn of Acadia/Cocktail party
Ethel Books & Book Tour Launch, 5 to 7 PM
December 5: FORT KENT, Market Street Co-op/4 to 6 PM
December 6: PRESQUE ISLE, Mark & Emily Turner Library/3 to 5 PM
Irish fiddler and a fireplace!
December 7: HOULTON, The Cup Café, 6 PM social hour
7 PM Reading/Discussion
December 8: STILL OPEN
December 9: MILLINOCKET, Pelletier's Restaurant, 4 to 6 PM
December 10: MILLINOCKET, Millinocket Literary Club, 7 to 9 PM
December 11: Arrive in Stockton Springs/Home base
December 12: STILL OPEN
December 13: STILL OPEN
December 14: STOCKTON SPRINGS, SS Library, 2 PM to 4 PM
December 14: STOCKTON SPRINGS, White’s Mercantile
Signing/Party 4 to 7 PM
December 15: ORONO, Dirigo Pines/5:30 PM Dinner/7:15 PM
Reading and talk
December 16: BANGOR, Nocturnem Draft Haus, 5 TO 7PM
(Dave Mallet, co-host)
December 17: AUGUSTA/HALLOWELL, Slate's Restaurant, 5 to 7 PM
(Troy Jackson, co-host)
December 18: ELLSWORTH, Ellsworth Library, 2 PM to 4 PM
December 19: STILL OPEN
December 20: FORT FAIRFIELD, FF Public Library
10 AM to 12 Noon
December 21: HOME TO ALLAGASH! This is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and the very day when THE SECRET WORLD OF MR. & MRS. SANTA CLAUS opens:
“All directions point south when you live at the North Pole.”
December 21. He stood outside his house, staring up at Polaris directly overhead. At his feet, a stream of light from the oil lamp on the kitchen table cast a yellow road across the frozen snow, then disappeared into the blackness beyond. Milly would be just getting up, warming her hands at the stove, ready to make breakfast for them both. There had been no sunlight, not even twilight, since the early days of October. He heard in the distant darkness the sound of sea ice shifting, cracking, cakes moving against each other. The South Pole had a land mass to boast of, but he liked something about the danger of where he lived, the sheer stamina it took to survive in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, floating on nothing but dreams.
CATHIE PELLETIER/CHRISTMAS BOOK TOUR, DECEMBER 2014
December 4: MADAWASKA, Inn of Acadia/Cocktail party
Ethel Books & Book Tour Launch, 5 to 7 PM
December 5: FORT KENT, Market Street Co-op/4 to 6 PM
December 6: PRESQUE ISLE, Mark & Emily Turner Library/3 to 5 PM
Irish fiddler and a fireplace!
December 7: HOULTON, The Cup Café, 6 PM social hour
7 PM Reading/Discussion
December 8: STILL OPEN
December 9: MILLINOCKET, Pelletier's Restaurant, 4 to 6 PM
December 10: MILLINOCKET, Millinocket Literary Club, 7 to 9 PM
December 11: Arrive in Stockton Springs/Home base
December 12: STILL OPEN
December 13: STILL OPEN
December 14: STOCKTON SPRINGS, SS Library, 2 PM to 4 PM
December 14: STOCKTON SPRINGS, White’s Mercantile
Signing/Party 4 to 7 PM
December 15: ORONO, Dirigo Pines/5:30 PM Dinner/7:15 PM
Reading and talk
December 16: BANGOR, Nocturnem Draft Haus, 5 TO 7PM
(Dave Mallet, co-host)
December 17: AUGUSTA/HALLOWELL, Slate's Restaurant, 5 to 7 PM
(Troy Jackson, co-host)
December 18: ELLSWORTH, Ellsworth Library, 2 PM to 4 PM
December 19: STILL OPEN
December 20: FORT FAIRFIELD, FF Public Library
10 AM to 12 Noon
December 21: HOME TO ALLAGASH! This is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and the very day when THE SECRET WORLD OF MR. & MRS. SANTA CLAUS opens:
“All directions point south when you live at the North Pole.”
December 21. He stood outside his house, staring up at Polaris directly overhead. At his feet, a stream of light from the oil lamp on the kitchen table cast a yellow road across the frozen snow, then disappeared into the blackness beyond. Milly would be just getting up, warming her hands at the stove, ready to make breakfast for them both. There had been no sunlight, not even twilight, since the early days of October. He heard in the distant darkness the sound of sea ice shifting, cracking, cakes moving against each other. The South Pole had a land mass to boast of, but he liked something about the danger of where he lived, the sheer stamina it took to survive in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, floating on nothing but dreams.
