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Welcome to the 2010 Berkshire Forum.

It is our sincere hope that this year’s speakers, panelists and performers will enhance the creative spirit of the community and inspire you to assume an active role in rejuvenating the local economy and shaping its cultural and economic future.

This is your forum. Our speakers and panelists look forward to hearing from you. Please feel free to use the floor microphones to share your stories, ask questions and bounce ideas off those on stage.

We would like to thank our sponsors and the generous members of the local creative and business community without whom the inaugural Berkshire Forum would not have been possible. Special thanks to Julie Hammill of Hammill Design for her beautiful designs and inspiring ideas, Eugenie Sills at The Women’s Times for her guidance and support, Michael Zivyak at Berkshire Living for his many contributions, our keynote speakers from outside of the region for taking the time to travel to the Berkshires to inspire our attendees, and to Kevin Sprague and his team at Studio Two for swiftly and skillfully pulling together www.TheBerkshireForum.com.

Thank you for participating in the event.

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (The Colonial Lobby)

Registration & Welcome Reception Cookbook Signing & Tasting with: CHEF MICHAEL BALLON, Author, Castle Street Café Cookbook Welcome reception courtesy of Baba Louie’s, Castle Street Café, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace, Marketplace of the Berkshires, Ooma Tesoro’s and Pittsfield Rye Bakery.

6:00 pm – 6:10 pm (The Colonial Theatre)

Welcome Remarks Speakers: JAMES RUBERTO, Mayor, City of Pittsfield RICHARD ALCOMBRIGHT, Mayor, City of North Adams

6:10 pm – 7:10 pm

The Future of Business: Stabilizing the Fluctuating Job Market to Achieve Economic Growth at the Local Level Investigating the positive effects that free enterprise has on the economy and job sustainability.

Speaker: WILLIAM “BILL” LITTLE, Chairman, National Chamber Foundation and former Chairman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Bret Swanson, formerly of Lenox, is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and Forbes.com.

He now lives in Indiana with his wife and four children.

Commentator: BRET SWANSON, Contributor, The Wall Street Journal; President, Entropy Economics

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 7:10 pm – 8:10 pm

The Business of Healthcare: Medical Delivery Innovations Taking Root in Massachusetts Expanding coverage while addressing cost pressures.

Featuring an audience Q&A session with one of the country’s foremost health-policy experts, Dr. Scott Gottlieb.

Speaker: DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB, Practicing Internist; Forbes columnist; The Wall Street Journal Contributor; CNBC Commentator; Former Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Dr. Scott Gottlieb was once the Author of the Gilder Biotech Report, a medical technology report published in Great Barrington. He currently practices medicine as an attending physician at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut.

8:10 pm – 9:00 pm

Commentator: BRET SWANSON, Contributor, The Wall Street Journal; President, Entropy Economics

FOD Fest Youth Concert Friends of Daniel Pearl: Strengthening Community Through Music In addition to being a journalist (North Adams Transcript, 1986; Berkshire Eagle, 1988), the late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was a talented musician who believed in the power of music to bring people together regardless of their differences. FOD Fest promotes this ideal through its programming.

The Berkshire Forum FOD Fest performance will showcase local youth performers. Proceeds from the event will benefit the FOD Fest school program, aimed at educating, inspiring, and empowering local music students at the junior high and high school level.

Sponsored by

Todd Mack was a bandmate of Daniel Pearl. He created FODFest to honor Daniel’s memory.

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 7:30 am – 8:00 am (The Colonial Lobby)

8:00 am – 8:20 am (The Colonial Theatre)

Morning Registration BOOK SIGNING

Stone River (film short)

7:30-9:30am Cornelia Brooke Gilder Louisa Gilder

Directed by: HAL CLIFFORD and JASON HOUSTON

Hal Clifford and Jason Houston are Executive Editor and Picture Editor of Orion, an awardwinning environmental magazine published in Great Barrington.

8:20 am – 9:00 am

Deep in the Northeastern woods, working alone, one man is building a better world, one stone at a time.

One very, very big stone. Placed very, very carefully. His tools are his hands, his back, a few metal implements.

His vision encompasses all of modern culture and its reformation. Premiered at the Berkshire International Film Festival in 2010.

The Spirit of Enterprise: The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Business and Technology How the economic health of a community is determined by the collective ingenuity and wisdom of individual entrepreneurs — the heroes of capitalism.

George Gilder is a life-long resident of Tyringham. In 1986, he was awarded the White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence

by President Reagan.

Speaker: GEORGE GILDER, Chairman, Senior Founding Member, Gilder Israel Technology Fund L.P.; Author of over ten books, including; Wealth and Poverty (1981), The Spirit of Enterprise (1986), Microcosm (1989), Life After Television (1990), Telecosm (2000), The Silicon Eye (2005), and The Israel Test (2009)

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 9:00 am – 10:30 am

Isolating the Entrepreneurial Gene: The Psychology of the Serial Entrepreneur For some, entrepreneurship is more than an economic endeavor; it is a vocation—a way of life. How the impulse to create and self-govern inspires people to craft innovative new products and services.

Moderator: MICHAEL ZIVYAK, Founder & Publisher, Berkshire Living magazine Panelists: LISA CHAMBERLAIN, Founder and Managing Partner, The Chamberlain Group MITCH NASH, Owner & Founder, Blue Q SETH NASH, Owner & Founder, Blue Q RICHARD STANLEY, Commercial Real Estate Developer; Managing Partner, The Beacon Cinema MARK WOLF, Director, The Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute

BOOK SIGNING 10:00 am – Noon Ruth Bass Blue Q is the maker of the “Savin’ Up for a New Tatoo” piggy bank, “I Think That Stripper Really Liked Me” gum, and “Sparkling Mullet: Body Wash and Car Wash”. They operate out of a renovated piano factory in Pittsfield.

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 10:30 am – 10:45 am

Bach of the Antarctic (film short) Directed & Written by: BEN HILLMAN

In addition to filmmaking, Ben Hillman wrote and illustrated The Devil Ate My Blintzes (Waterfront Press) and That Pesky Toaster (The Walt Disney Company).

Publisher's Weekly called his pictorial science books for children published by Scholastic "so freakin' cool."

10:45 am – 12:00 pm

There are over 1,300 non-profit organizations in the greater Berkshire-Taconic region, and over 800 in Berkshire County alone.

With Music From: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH and DONALD SOSIN A startling discovery confirms that the person who discovered Antarctica was none other than Johann Sebastian Bach. As scientists uncover the astounding evidence, totally fake historical footage recreates Bach’s daring voyage into the Unknown. Premiered at the Berkshire International Film Festival in 2009.

The Commerce of Culture: Artful Innovation & Effectiveness in the Non-profit Sector Weighing community benefits vs. personal profits.

Servicing community stakeholders.

Moderator: HELENA FRUSCIO, Director, Berkshire Creative Panelists: STUART CHASE, Executive Director, The Berkshire Museum DAVID FLEMING, Former Executive Director, The Colonial Theatre LAURIE NORTON MOFFATT, Director and Chief Executive Officer, Norman Rockwell Museum

BOOK SIGNINGS 11:30am – 1:30pm Leslie Wheeler 12:00 – 2:00pm Stephen Donaldson

STEPHEN PERKINS, Executive Director, Bennington Museum MARK VOLPE, Managing Director, Boston Symphony Orchestra

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (Downtown Pittsfield)

Break for Lunch

1:30 pm – 1:50 pm (The Colonial Theatre)

Boston Symphony Orchestra (performance) John Williams: Duo Concertante for violin & viola Handel-Halvorsen: Pasacaglia (Duo) for violin & viola Musicians: VICTOR ROMANUL, Violin MICHAEL ZARETSKY, Viola Sponsored by

1:50 pm – 3:00 pm

The Williams Duo was written by John Williams for Victor Romanul and Michael Zaretsky. Michael and Victor gave the public premiere of the Duo Concertante in Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood in August 2007.

The Investor-Entrepreneur Relationship: Building Businesses & Strategically Partnering for Success Scaling your business. Shopping for investors and establishing critical early-stage investment connections.

Moderator: SPENCER REISS, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine

Spencer Reiss specializes in energy issues, commercial space travel and the human impact of technology for Wired magazine. Formerly he was Newsweek correspondent in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

His office is in Great Barrington.

Matt Harris, Micah Singer and Russ Howard are all graduates of Williams College, where Janette’s husband, Will Dudley, teaches philosophy.

Panelists: JANETTE KESSLER DUDLEY, Vice President of Special Projects, CPower MATT HARRIS, Managing General Partner, Village Ventures RUSS HOWARD, Managing Director, High Peaks Venture Partners MICAH SINGER, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, VoIP Logic EDWARD ZYSZKOWSKI, Chief Executive Officer, Steeplechase Networks

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Cabaret-to-Go (performance) Sherri and friends perform Cabaret-to-Go classics for The Berkshire Forum audience.

Featuring: SHERRI JAMES BUXTON, Vocal Interpreter of the Great American Song Book

3:30 pm – 4:45 pm

The Impulse to Innovate: Inspiration, the Launching Process, Set Backs, and Breakthroughs

Sherri has opened for Freddie Prinz, Jackie Mason and Rodney Dangerfield.

The crucial components and critical path to launching a business. Plus, an investigation into how true innovation creates its own market.

Moderator: JESSICA HARRIS, Host of NPR’s From Scratch: The Radio Show on Entrepreneurial Life Jessica Harris produced and directed On Common Ground, the critically acclaimed documentary about World War II. She also worked with Woody Allen on his film Sweet and Low Down.

Joe Thompson has been a guest on Jessica’s “From Scratch” radio show.

Panelists: JULIA BOWEN, Executive Director, The Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter School BETH PEARSON, President, Pearson Properties and Management LLC JAMES NEJAIME, Owner, Nejaime’s Wine Cellars JOE THOMPSON, Director, MASS MoCA

BOOK SIGNING 3:30 – 5:30pm Richard Greene

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm

Annie (performance) The BTF Children’s Theatre Company performs selections from Annie. Featuring local children under the direction of the talented Berkshire Theatre Festival staff and crew.

Over one hundred local children and adults participate in Berkshire Theatre Festival’s production of “Annie.” The show runs through Saturday September 18.

Performed by: BERKSHIRE THEATRE FESTIVAL Children’s Theatre Company Sponsored by

5:00 pm – 6:50 pm

Break for Dinner BOOK SIGNING 5:30-7:00pm Jana Laiz Ann-Elizabeth Barnes Chris Darroch

6:50 pm – 7:00 pm (The Colonial Theatre)

Little Red Jiving Hood: The Original Girl in the Hood (film short) Written & Directed by: BEN HILLMAN Music by: DONALD SOSIN In a deep, deep forest lives a little girl who wears a little red — wait a minute… You know the story. But not quite like this! Screened at the Inaugural Berkshire International Film Festival in 2006.

“Little Red Jiving Hood” has won awards at the Black Marie Film Festival, the Canadian International Film Festival and the Garden State Film Festival.

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Street-Fighting Math and Science: Down-and-dirty, Opportunistic Problem Solving How to build and sharpen your creative problem solving skills across diverse fields of knowledge— from mathematics to management.

Introduction by: MARY COLLINS GEORGE, Former Math & Science Teacher; Co-producer, The Berkshire Forum TINA CHASE, Accountant & Business Manager; Co-producer, The Berkshire Forum Speaker: DR. SANJOY MAHAJAN, Author of Street-Fighting Mathematics; Associate Director for Teaching Initiatives, Teaching and Learning Laboratory, MIT; Visiting Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering, Olin College

8:00 pm – 8:15 pm

Youth Alive (dance performance) A performance by the Youth Alive Step Team— a rite-ofpassage program for adolescent girls that includes multicultural women’s studies, health education, support for trauma and self-esteem building programs.

Introduction: SHIRLEY EDGERTON, Director, Youth Alive Community Based Performance Arts Program Featuring: THE YOUTH ALIVE STEP TEAM Sponsored by

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 8:15 pm – 9:15 pm

Advocating Excellence: 2010 Berkshire Forum Education Roundtable A discussion on improving teaching in our schools, led by Dr. Sanjoy Mahajan. Together the panel will strive to find antidotes to the rigor mortis brought on by too much rigor and too little creative thinking and problem solving.

Because of his experience with wonderful teachers at CalTech and Oxford University, Sanjoy Mahajan became interested in improving the teaching of science and math. He was recently voted favorite professor by his students at MIT.

Commentator: DR. SANJOY MAHAJAN, Author of Street-Fighting Mathematics; Associate Director for Teaching Initiatives, Teaching and Learning Laboratory, MIT; Visiting Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering, Olin College Panelists: JANE BURKE, Life-long Educator; Founder & Director, Flying Cloud Institute TED COLLINS, Teacher, Monument Mountain Regional High School MONICA JOSLIN, Dean of Academic Affairs, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts MICHAEL FARMER, Teacher, Mount Everett Regional School LYNN MCDONNELL, Science and Math Specialist, Crosby Elementary School

BOOK SIGNING 9:00 – 9:30pm Jana Laiz Ann-Elizabeth Barnes Chris Darroch

9:00 pm – 9:30 pm (The Colonial Lobby)

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The Berkshire Forum After Hours Networking and Book Signings

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 7:30 am – 8:00 am (The Colonial Lobby)

8:00 am – 8:20 am (The Colonial Theatre)

Morning Registration BOOK SIGNING 7:30-9:30am Derek Gentile

Creativity is a Muscle: Building a World Where Creativity Thrives

Can creativity be taught, trained, and learned?

Can it open up new opportunities and potential?

Discover some simple strategies for unlocking the creative process.

Speaker: KEVIN SPRAGUE, Photographer; Author, Imagining Shakespeare; Owner, Studio Two

8:20 am – 9:30 am

"Once upon a time, the Berkshires were the high-tech capital of the world. It could happen again."

Spencer Reiss, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine

Seldon is the creator of world-leading nanotechnology water and air filtration products saving lives around the world.

The EOS Ventures team has completed the first and only privately owned megawatt class turbine in the nation for on-site energy usage.

Solar Electric Service Corporation aims to make the benefits of solar power affordable to all.

Berkshire Renewable Power is building a state-of-the-art bio-fuel and electrical generation facility in the Berkshires.

Cleantech: Building Sustainable Communities Eco-conscious innovations and energy alternatives tinting the region green. Creating new markets and focusing investments on clean technologies.

Moderator: CHARLIE DEITZ, Berkshire Bureau Chief, WAMC Panelists: ALAN CUMMINGS, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Seldon Technologies TYLER FAIRBANK, Chief Executive Officer, EOS Ventures, LLC STEVE NELSON, President and Chief Executive Officer, Solar Electric Service Corp.

STEPHEN SEARS, Principal, Berkshire Renewable Power, LLC Commentator: SPENCER REISS, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine The Berkshire Forum 2010

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 9:30 am – 10:45 am

Philanthropic Power: The Business of Giving Inspiring and infusing the marketplace through altruism.

According to the Foundation Center’s April 2010 edition of “Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates” the accuracy of predictions about 2011 giving vary greatly, due to the instability of the economy.

Moderator: ABBIE VON SCHLEGELL, Philanthropic Fundraising Consultant Panelists: JENNIFER DOWLEY, President, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation NANCY FITZPATRICK, Vice Chairman, The Fitzpatrick Companies TODD MACK, Singer; Producer; Founder, FOD fest (Friends of Daniel Pearl music festival)

BOOK SIGNING 10:30am – 12:30pm Kevin Sprague 10:45 am – 11:00 am

The Kabbalah of Bob Dylan (performance) Featuring: SETH ROGOVOY, Singer, Guitarist, Writer, Award-winning critic, Author, Lecturer, Teacher and Radio Commentator

Seth Rogovoy is an expert on Jewish music and the Author of Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, published in 2009.

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Berkshire Living’s critical commentator and locally-loved music, book, and cultural critic performs live for The Berkshire Forum audience.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Getting to Next (Career workshop) Inspiring Berkshire Forum attendees to reevaluate attitudes, skills and goals in order to increase staying power, survive setbacks, transition to new careers, land new positions and expand or launch new businesses.

Carole Hyatt has made appearances on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America and CNN. Her husband, Gordon, grew up in Lee and they currently own a home in Stockbridge.

Introduction: SETH ROGOVOY, Editor-in-Chief, Berkshire Living and Berkshire Business Quarterly Speaker: CAROLE HYATT, Entrepreneur, Renowned Career Strategist, and Best-selling Author, The New Woman’s Selling Game, Shifting Gears, Lifetime Employability, and When Smart People Fail

BOOK SIGNING 12:00 – 2:00pm Carole Hyatt 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm (Downtown Pittsfield)

Break for Lunch

1:45 pm – 2:00 pm (The Colonial Theatre)

Cowboy Yoga (film short)

with “Getting to Next” Networking Assignment

Written & Directed by: HAL CLIFFORD and LOU BENDRICK Camera & Editing by: JASON HOUSTON Two cowboys make an instructional yoga video for cowboys. Premiered at the Berkshire International Film Festival in 2009.

In Blythe, California it is illegal to wear cowboy boots unless you already own at least two cows.

Yoga is said to improve concentration, confidence, self-control and creativity.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Finding the Where of Happiness: Realizing the American Dream in Rural America Fascinating and inspiring stories of business owners operating their businesses far from urban centers.

Moderator: SETH ROGOVOY, Editor-in-Chief, Berkshire Living and Berkshire Business Quarterly

Pittsfield-based Unistress provided the concrete for the new Yankee Stadium.

Panelists: BILL HINES JR, Managing Director, Interprint Inc.

Interprint is an innovative, world-leading supplier of laminate products.

PERRI PETRICCA, Chief Executive Officer, Petricca Industries; President, Unistress

Superl Sequoia owns a 350,000 square foot factory in Donguan, China and operates out of Monterey, MA.

MARC ROBERTS, Founder, Superl Sequoia, Vice President, Sequoia Group Holdings KELLEY VICKERY, Executive Director, Berkshire International Film Festival

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

The Berkshire International Film Festival showcases documentaries, student films, film shorts and feature films from across the country and around the globe.

A Plan For Action: The New Berkshire Blueprint Growing the Berkshire economy and improving the quality of life for residents and employers by leveraging the cultural and entrepreneurial richness of the region.

Speaker: DAVID ROONEY, President, Berkshire Economic Development Corporation David Rooney first met Berkshire Forum creators Tina Chase and Mary Collins George in 2007, at the Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference that they produced in Lake George, NY.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 4:00 pm – 4:25 pm

Breaking Pattern (film short) Written & Directed by: RYAN KAMPE Breaking Pattern opens with lush, vivid colors. It is summer in New England. There is a mother with a baby. All seems right with the world. But before long it is obvious that the beautiful colors belie the bleakness of the characters’ lives. In the short span, Breaking Pattern gives us suspense, violence, social commentary, and a love story, or two. Shot on location in the Berkshires with an all-local cast, the complex situations in Breaking Pattern give insight into life in small New England towns. Premiered at the Berkshire International Film Festival in 2008.

BOOK SIGNING 4:30 – 6:30pm James Ciullo Barbara Shook Hazen 4:25 pm – 5:10 pm

Broadband Expansion to Rural Communities: Growing Locally, Competing Globally Speaker: BENJAMIN DOWNING, Massachusetts State Senator (D-Pittsfield) Audience Q&A Session Featuring: BENJAMIN DOWNING, Massachusetts State Senator (D-Pittsfield) JUDITH DUMONT, Director, Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) MONICA WEBB, Spokesperson, WiredWest

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 5:10 pm – 5:50 pm

Negotiating the Changing Media Landscape: A Conversation Why innovation, collaboration and engagement are the new watchwords of journalism.

Host: EUGENIE SILLS, Founder and Publisher, The Women’s Times

Boston Globe Editor Martin Baron owns a home in Stockbridge.

5:50 pm – 6:00 pm

Guest: MARTIN “MARTY” BARON, Editor, The Boston Globe

The Heartbeat of Our Community (Reading) Speaker: KEVIN O’HARA, Author, A Lucky Irish Lad

BOOK SIGNING 6:00 – 7:30pm Kevin O’Hara

6:00 pm

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Farewell Remarks

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16

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BOOK SIGNINGS In the Colonial Theatre lobby

Wednesday, September 15 7:30 am – 9:30 am

Cornelia Brooke Gilder, Author, Houses of the Berkshires and Hawthorne's Lenox Louisa Gilder, Author, The Age of Entanglement

10:00 am – Noon

Ruth Bass, Author, Sarah’s Daughter and Rose

11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Leslie Wheeler, Author, Murder at Plimoth Plantation and Murder at Gettysburg

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Stephen Donaldson, Author, The Berkshires; Along Route 7: A Journey Through Western New England; Barns of the Berkshires

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Richard Greene, Author, Midnight Rounds and The Day After Midnight

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm & 9:00pm – 9:30 pm

Jana Laiz, Author, Weeping Under the Same Moon and Co-author, A Free Woman on God’s Earth Ann-Elizabeth Barnes, Co-Author, A Free Woman On God's Earth Chris Darroch, Author, The Climb of Polar Mountain

Thursday, September 16 7:30 am - 9:30 am

Derek Gentile, Author, The Vanilla Envelope and Splitters, Squeezes, and Steals

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Kevin Sprague, Author, Imagining Shakespeare

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Carole Hyatt, Author, When Smart People Fail

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

James Ciullo, Author, Orinoco and Maracaibo Barbara Shook Hazen, Author, Katie's Wish; The Knight Who was Afraid of the Dark; Who is Your Favorite Monster Mama?; Where do Bears Sleep

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Kevin O’Hara, Author, A Lucky Irish Lad Local Author Book Signings Sponsored by:

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