Authors Series with Eleanor Morse-MARGREETE’S HARBOR
June 26, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join us as Denmark Historical Society, Public Library and Arts Center Collaborative presents the Authors Series and an afternoon with author Eleanor Morse and her novel, Margreete’s Harbor. A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home.
Margreete’s Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete calls her daughter, Liddie, to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. Liddie, her husband, and their children, Eva and Bernie, move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete’s isolated home and begin a new life.
Eleanor Morse, a resident of Peaks Island, Maine, will speak at the Denmark Arts Center about her latest book, Margreete’s Harbor, which is set in a fictional town in Midcoast Maine during the late 50s and 60s. She will touch upon where a story comes from, about her writing process, and about the ways that the large eruptions of a nation shaped a family during a turbulent decade. Janet Peery, author of The River Beyond the World, said of the book,”. Timely as well as timeless, heartfelt as well as heartbreaking, this beautiful novel of a family at the crossroads of becoming reminds us of the very real perils of aging, the legacies bequeathed as generations succeed each other, the betrayals that shape us, and the sustaining strength of the ties that bind.”
Eleanor has published four novels: Margreete’s Harbor in the spring of 2021, White Dog Fell from the Sky (2013) , a Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week, An Unexpected Forest (2007), which won an Independent Book Publisher’s Award for best regional fiction and the Maine Literary Award in fiction, and Chopin’s Garden (2006). She received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in teaching from Yale University. She lives in Maine and teaches fiction writing on the faculty of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing in Louisville, Kentucky. Her website is www.eleanormorse.com.
The Authors’ Series is funded by the generous donation of an anonymous Angel and support from our guests, Thank you!
Margreete’s Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete calls her daughter, Liddie, to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. Liddie, her husband, and their children, Eva and Bernie, move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete’s isolated home and begin a new life.
Eleanor Morse, a resident of Peaks Island, Maine, will speak at the Denmark Arts Center about her latest book, Margreete’s Harbor, which is set in a fictional town in Midcoast Maine during the late 50s and 60s. She will touch upon where a story comes from, about her writing process, and about the ways that the large eruptions of a nation shaped a family during a turbulent decade. Janet Peery, author of The River Beyond the World, said of the book,”. Timely as well as timeless, heartfelt as well as heartbreaking, this beautiful novel of a family at the crossroads of becoming reminds us of the very real perils of aging, the legacies bequeathed as generations succeed each other, the betrayals that shape us, and the sustaining strength of the ties that bind.”
Eleanor has published four novels: Margreete’s Harbor in the spring of 2021, White Dog Fell from the Sky (2013) , a Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week, An Unexpected Forest (2007), which won an Independent Book Publisher’s Award for best regional fiction and the Maine Literary Award in fiction, and Chopin’s Garden (2006). She received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in teaching from Yale University. She lives in Maine and teaches fiction writing on the faculty of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing in Louisville, Kentucky. Her website is www.eleanormorse.com.
The Authors’ Series is funded by the generous donation of an anonymous Angel and support from our guests, Thank you!
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