The Woods Hole Public Library presents the next Story Hour
for Grownups on Sunday, December 15, at 3 pm in its Ratcliffe Room, which
houses its extensive theater and performing arts collection. Doors will open at
2:30, and audience members are urged to arrive early as space will be limited.
(The larger Community Room will be the site of the Library’s annual Holiday
Book Sale, beginning on December 7.)
Story Hour
will open with a wintry crime story, featured in Best American Mystery Stories 2008. San Lyman, active all her life
in community theater, including Wood Hole’s Penzance Players, will read “Hothouse” by S. J. Rozan. In this tale
an escaped convict seeks shelter in the glass conservatory of the Bronx
Botanical Gardens during a snowstorm. His situation grows significantly more
complicated following an encounter with a horticulturist who is dealing with an
emergency caused by the storm.
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Muriel
Gould, featured in the Library’s recent winter newsletter, will read one of O.
Henry’s charming but lesser known short stories, “The Whirligig of Life.” An
elderly mountain couple come down to town to obtain a divorce from the Justice
of the Peace. The five dollar transaction takes on a life of its own and
concludes in typical O. Henry fashion with an outcome none of the three could
have anticipated at the outset.
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The
readings, which will take place at 3 pm on Sunday, December 15, downstairs in
the Woods Hole Public Library’s Ratcliffe Room, are free and open to the
public. Doors will open at 2:30, offering attendees an opportunity to enjoy a
break from holiday shopping and stress.