I was invited by the brilliant and accomplished librarian, Tonya Eindiguer,
to visit the libraries along the St John River in New Brunswick.
We started off with the Edmundston Public Library,
a six-hour drive from Shigawake!
First, I visited some history classes at St Mary’s Academy in Edmonston.
The history teacher, with Tanya, certainly found my talk amusing.
Ted was photographing, and caught a neat sign for the English class.
Then we drove 100 miles to a lovely small town,
Hartland, converted from a former Post Office…
…where I spoke to a small group of readers,
who nonetheless bought a lot of copies of The Gunner.
I was happy to sign books for them.
As usual, 50% went to Hartland’s Holy Trinity Church,
whose representative, Cindy Derkson, turned up to hear
about The Alford Saga and spread the word.
And of course, I went to sit in the chair of one of NB’s famous premiers,
Richard Hatfield, whose desk from the legislature
is preserved here in the library.
Later that day we drove to Nackawic, where at lunchtime, the attractive
small public library shared by, and housed in, the high school, also
bought The Gunner and other books in The Alford Saga:
small public library shared by, and housed in, the high school, also
bought The Gunner and other books in The Alford Saga:
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