1. art and entertainment
2. books and literature
3. poetry

Hosts
• Newburyport Adult & Community Education • Newburyport Public Library •
• Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce •
April 24-25, 2015 www.newburyportliteraryfestival.org
Vicki Hendrickson, Festival Director
Jennifer Entwistle, Festival Co-Director
Steering Committee
Michael Cameron
Linda Carpino
Myfanwy Collins
Cindy Dadd
Bethany Groff Dorau
Allison Driscoll
Rhina Espaillat
Sherri Frank
Alida Frey
Jessica Hilbun
Nana Kennedy
Karen Krueger
Alfred Nicol
Debbie Szabo
Skye Wentworth
Ghlee E. Woodworth
The Board of the Newburyport Literary Association
1. First Religious
Society Unitarian
Universalist Church
26 Pleasant Street
6. Custom House
Maritime Museum
25 Water Street
2. Jabberwocky Bookshop The Tannery, 50 Water Street
7. Firehouse Center
for the Arts
Market Square
3. Newburyport Public Library
Program & Children’s Room
94 State Street
8. Nicholson Hall
at the Greek Church
7 Harris Street
4. Old South Church
& Social Hall
29 Federal Street
9.Newburyport
Art Association
65 Water Street
5. Central Congregational
Church Social Hall
14 Titcomb Street
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FOUNDING SPONSORS
• Vicki Hendrickson, Chair • Grace Connolly • Pat Connelly • Cindy Dadd •
• Steve Deguglielmo • Jennifer Entwistle • Dorothy LaFrance • Ann Ormond •
Supporters & Friends of the Newburyport Literary Festival
Anonymous
Joan & Sam Baily
Jane and Steve Batchelder
Ellen Becker & Bruce Skud
Dr. and Mrs. Francis Bell
David Berman
Meredith Bohne
Anne Bowdoin
Edward J. Brennan, Jr.
Sally Burke
Sheila & William Carruth
Lindsay Cavanaugh
Kathryn Cerrati
Linda M. Clark
The Law Offices of Connolly & Connolly
The Cowles Family
Nancy Crochiere
Ray Donnelly
Patricia Dubus
The Elephant’s Trunk
Sherry Evans
Maureen Farren
Carol Feingold
Susan and Leslie Ferlazzo
Peggy Foley
Edith Foy
Christine Gibson
Nicki Girouard
Susan Given
Claudia & Gary Gorski
Judith & Stephen Grohe
Barbara and Peter Haack
Paul & Elizabeth Harrington
Tom Haywood
Vicki and Dyke Hendrickson
Holmes Physical Therapy
Caroline & Rod Hometh
Jenny and Nick Houlihan
Carolyn & Stephen Johnson
Cindy and Stuart Johnson
Colleen Kilcoyne
Joan A.W. Kimball
The Kipp Family
Susan LaFortune
Brenda LeClerce & Laurel Seneca
Diana Lemp
Eleanor Lyons
Linda Harding and Hugh Martinez
Leslie May
Dorothy May
Thomas McGinley
Cate McGrail
Rhina and Alfred Moscowitz
Margaret & Skip Motes
Judy Mouradian & Ted Ruetenik
Anne Mulvey & Donna O’Neill
Susan Murphy & Jennifer Anderson
Charlie Nichols & Christine Niles
Jean A. O’Donnell
Marcia Adams O’Neil
Koglin Orthodontics
Betsy Peffer
Kathleen & Geoffrey Raywood
Riley & Associates
The Law Offices of Joyce E. Scott
Karen & Wayne Seaman
Rebecca & David Shea
Patricia Lane Skibbee
Claire & Peter Spellman
Cathy Welch Strauss
Jesselyn Sullivan
Marc and Sharon Tucker
Margot & David Vine
Alan B. Ward
Watts Eye Associates
Beth Welch & Chuck Christiansen
Julia Williams
Sharon & Gene Wintner
The Newburyport Literary festival is grateful to all the volunteers who gave their time, talent,
and energy to make the Festival a success. We are also grateful to all of those to contributed
much needed dollars to our effort. The old adage... it takes a village is so true.
Your efforts, your support make the festival possible. Thank you.
The Newburyport Literary Festival is a project of the Newburyport Literary Association, Inc.
PO Box 268 • Newburyport, MA 01950 • 978.465.1257
OUR TENTH ANNIVERSARY HONOREE IS JEAN FOLEY DOYLE
As the Newburyport Literary Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary, we are
delighted to honor one of our own local luminaries, Jean Doyle. Jean, mother of
seven, Newburyport High School history teacher for 30 years, is a local historian
and lifetime Newburyport observer. She has drawn on American history and specifically
Newburyport history to guide her classroom curriculum and her personal interests.
Most recently her two-volume History of Newburyport in the 20th Century takes
readers from 1900 to 1950 in the first volume and from 1950 to 1985 in the second.
OPENING NIGHT —
Our festival’s opening night features a conversation
between Michael Blanding, best-selling author, journalist, historian and local
journalist Dyke Hendrickson. The topic is The Map Thief, the story of an infamous
crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture
that consumed him.
Dyke Hendrickson is a veteran reporter, now with the Daily News. He is an author
himself and admirer of Blanding’s achievement in writing The Map Thief.
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Downtown Newburyport, April 24, 6:00 p.m.
DINNER WITH THE AUTHORS —
Join us for a wonderful evening of
conversation with many of our authors, good food, and a glass of wine.
Nicholson Hall at the Greek Church, 7 Harris Street.
Dinner begins at 7:30, April 24. Cost $50 per person with cash bar.
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE
Breakfast with the Poets, and readings / conversations with: Bob Ryan, Lucy Ferriss,
Kate Bolick, Joyce Maynard, Avi , Vicki Croke, Anica Mrose Rissi, Said Sayrafiezadeh,
Andre Dubus III, David McCullough, Jr., Erica Funkhouser, Robert W. Crawford,
Anne Easter Smith, Lev Grossman, and Susan Minot. Join us!
S AT U R D AY N I G H T ’ S C L O S I N G E V E N T H O N O R I N G
J E A N F O L E Y D O Y L E — Following welcoming remarks from festival directors,
Jean, her editor, and members of her family will bring to light her journey from
amateur historian to the author of two volumes of Newburyport’s history. Projecting
slides and incorporating readings she and family members will guide us back in
time, through the streets of Newburyport, meeting long-lost friends along the way.
Jean Doyle is our finale. She speaks to our community about our community.
The literary festival has been supported by our City for a decade now with an evergrowing enthusiasm. Jean exemplifies the curiosity, the attention to what has gone
before, and the desire to embrace the present. She speaks to those qualities that
make Newburyport the remarkable place it is.
SATURDAY,
8:30 am
APRIL 25
Central
Congregational
Church
Social Hall
The
Firehouse
Center
Old
South
Church
Old South
Church
Social Hall
First Religious
Society Unitarian
Universalist
Church
9:00 am
(P)
9:30 am
10:00 am
8:30 – 10 AM
10:30 am
11:00 am
(P)
Breakfast with the Poets
Meredith Bergmann, David Berman, Rhina Espaillat,
Jean L. Kreiling, Len Krisak, Stephen Scaer
Moderator: David Davis
Editors of Light: The Poetry of
Melissa Balmain and Kevin Durkin
Melissa Balmain and Kevin Durkin
George Green and Joshua Mehigan
Erica Funkhouser and Robert W. Crawford
(F)
Peter Berkrot, Tavia Gilbert,
Ann Hood, Daniel Palmer
Moderator: Jana Navratil
(NF)
(NF)
(NF)
Scribe: My Life in Sports
The Art of Authentic Memoir
Essays by Andre Dubus III
Bob Ryan
Joyce Maynard
Andre Dubus III
(NF)
(NF)
A Storm of Witchcraft:
The Salem Trials and
the American Experience
Port Project:
Local History Presentations
John Webber
Bethany Groff Dorau
Greek Church
Nicholson Hall
Jabberwocky
Bookshop,
The Tannery
Children’s Room
Newburyport
Public Library
Program Room
Newburyport
Public Library
1:30 pm
(P)
Listening to Literature
(NF)
1:00 pm
The Poems Containing History:
The Poetry of Erica Funkhouser
and Robert W. Crawford
(F)
Taken by Sixty-four Guns:
The Revolutionary Adventures
of Captain Offin Boardman
pm
(P)
Through a Glass Darkly:
Creating Real Lives for Fictional Characters
Elisabeth Elo, Rory Flynn, Zachary Klein
Moderator: Jason Pinter
12:00
The New New York School:
The Poetry of George Green
and Joshua Mehigan
Emerson “Tad” Baker
2:00 pm
(NF)
(NF)
Vicki Croke, Bob Ryan, Lev Grossman
Moderator: Dyke Hendrickson
A Sister To Honor
Lucy Ferriss
(F)
Laura van den Berg
reads from Find Me
Laura van den Berg
(NF)
Premiere—Voices from the
Newburys: Oral History Interviews
J. Dennis Robinson
Caleb Noble
(NF)
You Are Not Special:
And Other Encouragements
Spinster:
Making a Life of One’s Own
David McCullough, Jr.
Kate Bolick
Urban Renewal:
Demolition or Restoration
—Newburyport’s Story
Ghlee E. Woodworth
(F) (YA)
Alternate Realities:
Bringing Fictional Worlds to Life
Avi, Myfanwy Collins, Heather Demetrios, Lori Goldstein
Moderator: Robin Brenner
(F)
My Friend, The Writer
Carla Panciera, Sarah Yaw
(F)
(F)
(P) (YA)
The Witch of Painted Sorrows
The Life of a Debut Author
Annual Youth Poetry Slam
MJ Rose
Meg Mitchell Moore, Katie Schickel
Slam Master: Jonathan Mendoza
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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The Short Fiction
of Said Sayrafiezadeh
Susan Minot with Laura van den Berg
Case Closed on the
1873 Smuttynose Murders
Donna Russo Morin, Alyson Richman, MJ Rose
Moderator: Anne Easter Smith
(F)
Lev Grossman
Thirty Girls:
A Conversation with Susan Minot
(NF)
Jessie Crockett, Edith Maxwell, Liz Mugavero
Moderator: Leigh Perry
Bruce Holsinger
Moderator: Earle Ray
The
Magician’s Land
(F)
(NF)
Why History is Sexy Now
Myfanwy Collins
(F)
Michael Blanding
Eve O. Schaub
What’s so Cozy about Murder?
The Invention of Fire:
A Conversation with Bruce Holsinger
Michael Casey and Hugh Martin
The Map Thief
From Brainstorm to Bookshelf
4:00 pm
Soldier Poets: The Poetry
of Michael Casey
and Hugh Martin
(NF)
Year of No Sugar:
A Memoir
Getting Real:
The Raw, Risky Business of Writing Fiction
The Book of Laney
3:30 pm
(P)
Robert Cording and Paul Mariani
(F)
(F) (YA)
3:00 pm
Matter and Spirit: The Poetry of
Robert Cording and Paul Mariani
(F)
Kristin Bair O’Keeffe, Holly Robinson, Lorrie Thomson
2:30 pm
(P)
(F)
(F)
The Art
Association
11:30 Am
Eat Drink and
Remarry
Margo Howard
Moderator:
Leslie Hendrickson
(NF)
(NF)
(F)
(F)
(F)
All Eyes are Upon Us
Elephant Company
Dorothy Parker Drank Here
Ties that Blind
An Italian Wife
Jason Sokol
Vicki Croke
Ellen Meister
Zachary Klein
Ann Hood
(C)
(C)
Animals, Animals Everywhere!
Always by Ann Stott
David Hyde Costello
Ann Stott
7 PM CLOSING CEREMO
NY HONORING JEAN DO
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w ith an in tr od uc tio n by
K at e B ol ic k
Fi re h o u se C en te r fo r
th e A rt s
(C)
(C)
(C)
Anna, Banana,
and the Friendship Split
Writing with Pictures:
The Graphic Novel
Calling All Future Space Tourists
(especially kids!)
Anica Mrose Rissi
Jarrett Krosoczka
Susan E. Goodman
JOHN W. PRAMBERG, ESQ.
(YA)
(F)
Avi: Writing for the Reader
Lincoln and Liberty, Too!
Avi
William Martin
JEN WRIGHT SIGNS