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The Haystack Book Festival is a program of the Norfolk Hub.

Register for Festival Events
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10/2 at 6:00 PM: Brendan Gill Lecture—A Conversation with Belle Burden

Belle Burden, the author of Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage talks with Roxanne Coady, RJ Julia Bookseller
Registration is required. 

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10/3 at 10:30 AM: Across Borders and Belonging – Exile, 
Identity, and American Lives Abroad

David Mayers, author of Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in Crisis Years 1936-1941
in conversation with 
Nicholas Boggs, author of Baldwin: A Love Story 

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10/3 at 1:00 PM: After the Wounds – War, Memory, and the Search for What Endures

David Nasaw, author of The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After WWII
in conversation with
Elizabeth Samet, author of Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

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10/3 at 3:00 PM: Inventing America - Power and Myth at the Nations Edges

Craig Fehrman, author of The Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark 
in conversation with 
Megan Kate Nelson, author of The Westerners: Myth Making and Belonging on the American Frontier

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10/4 at 8:00 AM: A Walk in the Woods at GMF with Mike Zarfos, Sophie Pinkham, and Robert Moor*

Registration is required: Limited to 20 people.

*Location: GMF Sugar House, top of Windrow Road.

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10/4 at 11:00 AM: Among the Trees - History, Science, and the Living Forest

Sophie Pinkham, author of The Oak and the Larch: A Forest Story of Russian and Its Empires
in conversation with 
Robert Moor, author of In Trees

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