Community members -- male and female -- wo uld compose and read aloud homegrown\, handwritten literary "newspapers" f ull of keen verbal wit. Sometimes serious\, sometimes sentimental but most ly very funny\, these "newspapers" were common in villages across Maine\, New Hampshire and Vermont and revealed the hopes\, fears\, humor and surpr isingly daring behavior of our forebears. Learn about these hundreds of "n ewspapers" and delve into examples from villages in Massachusetts.
\nLed by Jo Radner\, author of Wit and Wisdom: The Forgotten Literary Life of New England Villages\, about a 19th-century village tradition of creati ng and performing handwritten literary newspapers. Before returning to her family home in western Maine as a freelance storyteller and oral historia n\, Radner spent 31 years as a professor at American University in Washing ton\, DC. There she taught literature\, folklore\, women's studies\, Ameri can studies\, Celtic studies\, and storytelling. She has published books a nd articles in all those fields. Radner received her PhD from Harvard Univ ersity and is a past president of the American Folklore Society and the Na tional Storytelling Network.
\nThis program is in collaboration with Tewksbury Public Library.
\nNOTE: This program will be recorded. Al l registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.
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