NORWAY — Tess Chakkalakal, professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College, plans to present a program about the homes of Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at Norway Memorial Library, 258 Main St.
Chakkalakal will talk about these authors, the history of their homes, and how these homes and areas of Maine inspired them. Chakkalakal, cohost of the “Dead Writers” podcast, worked to restore the historic exterior of the Stowe house in Brunswick.
She is the author of “Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America,” which won the Robert K. Martin Prize for best book in American literature. She is set to release a new book in February 2025, “A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt.”
The Norway Museum and Historical Society and the Friends of Norway Memorial Library are cosponsors of this program, which is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 207-743-5309 or visit norwaymemoriallibrary.org.