First Local Authors Event April 26, 2015 Sponsored by Cheshire Historical Society at the Hitchcock-Phillips House Six of Cheshire’s published authors spent Sunday afternoon behind tables set up with books they have written over the years and chatted with interested visitors ready to autograph books they sold that day. Tracy Costa is joined by Former CHS Stephen Darley has authored four books President Cara Luciani and together on Benedict Arnold and the American they hold up her two books, entitled Revolution, holding up his latest work “Playing Tyler” and “The Poet”. “Call to Arms: The Patriot Militia in the 1977 British Raid on Danbury, Connecticut”. Past Town Historian, Ron Gagliardi, is joined by a visitor while holding up his “Images of Old Cheshire”. Author Janina Nawarskas, a former student of Gagliardi, is joined by her fiancée. She has turned her true-life story into a book, entitled “A Child Lost: My Life’s Journey through War-Torn Europe to Proud American”. Continued……. Tony Ruggiero, a former Science Teacher and One of Cheshire’s most prolific now a teacher at ArtsPlace, is joined by CHS authors is John White, having member Inge Venus in front of his illustrated published more than 20 works. book on the Cheshire-born Hudson River School He has written on Freedom and painter, John Frederick Kensett, called “A Enlightenment; A Practical Guide Young Artist’s Birthday Adventure, a story to Death and Dying; Women and about an American artist: the Warrior Within; Everything you John Frederick Kensett”. Want to know about TMS; The Meeting of Science and Spirit; The UFO Experience; and his most recent work “The Gulf of Tonkin Events Fifty Years Later”. Enjoying a friendly chat! A student checking his text message! Continued….. While authors and visitors were occupied on the first floor, Cheshire Historical Society President Diane Calabro took Ford Cole and his wife to see Cheshire High School Student Thomas Mulholland upstairs, way upstairs to the third floor, and together they viewed the newest creation at the Hitchcock-Phillips House – an authentic recreation of a room stepping back in time to a 1950-style dorm room as students from Cheshire Academy would have lived in it – including time periodappropriate furniture, sports equipment, pictures and a manual typewriter. Completing this auspicious project will earn Mulholland the coveted level of Eagle Scout. Photos and Collage by Inge Venus