Story Hour for Grownups

                                      January 2014 Story
Hour for Grownups at WHPL

            The Woods
Hole Public Library announces its next Story Hour for Grownups, which will take
place in the Community Room downstairs, on Sunday, January 26, at 3 pm. Doors
will open at 2:30 to give audience members a chance to mingle before the
readings.

Nawrie Meigs-Brown, who introduced
listeners to the essays of Willem Lange last year, will open with a crime
story, “Lights Out,” by J. E. Seymour. A timely tale set in wintry New England,
it seems that a widespread power outage has occurred in association with a
blizzard. One angry customer is in no mood to wait his turn for power company
crews to arrive and decides to take matters into his own hands to ensure that
his house is the next one to have its electricity restored.

            Jeannette
Fullerton, who filled in at the last minute in December for Muriel Gould, will
return this month to read a story by Somerset Maugham. Her brilliant reading
several years ago of Maugham’s “The Verger” led to invitations to read it in
other venues around Falmouth. Now she will turn her talents to his story, “In a
Strange Land.” Traveling in Asia Minor, a British gentleman is surprised to
find an English woman running his hotel. Without undo fuss, she shows she is prepared
to provide some of the comforts of home, such as a hot water bottle to warm his
bed. He draws her into conversation, curious to learn how she came to be the
proprietor of this establishment “in a strange land.”

The readings, which will take place
at 3 pm on Sunday, January 26, downstairs in the Woods Hole Public Library’s
Community Room, are free and open to the public. Doors will open at 2:30,
offering attendees an opportunity to pick their favorite seats and chat with
other Story Hour enthusiasts.