Rebecca Rule “Crosscut” program this week

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Rebecca Rule photoWriter, humorist, and storyteller Rebecca Rule is a NH treasure–her New Hampshire Humanities Council programs are continually popular, many folks travel miles to attend them. Fortunately for One Book, One Valley planners, Rebecca Rule introduced a new program this year, “Crosscut: Stories of logging, the mills, and life in the Androscoggin Valley,” on a topic aligned with themes in the book “Go With Me.”

“Crosscut” was presented at the beginning of October in Bartlett, but, happily, everyone will have another chance to see the program on Thursday evening, Oct. 21 at 7 pm at the Whitney Community Center in Jackson. Don’t miss it!

For further reading

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In Go With Me, many of the characters’ present-day choices are rooted in past experiences and situations. Here are some recommendations for further reading about the history and events that author Castle Freeman, Jr. may have considered when developing his characters and settings.

  • Tall Trees, Tough Men by Robert E. Pike (available at local libraries)
  • Yankee Loggers: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks, and River Drivers by Stewart Hall Holbrook (available at local libraries)
  • Slideshow on abandoned town Livermore, NH at whitemountainhistory.org

For fiction readers, the lumber industry in northern New England, loggers, and lost towns are also featured in John Irving’s Last Night at Twisted River.