**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**  

In an eleven-month period, Nancy Hauswald lost four members of her immediate family, including her husband of 32 years. After poking her head out from under the rock where she’d been hiding for eighteen months, Nancy pursued a lifelong dream of going to graduate school and getting an MFA degree in Creative Writing. As part of her thesis requirement, she studied three memoirs about grief and analyzed how the authors used the cornerstones of time, place, and artifacts to create meaning out of chaos.

This presentation, "Good Grief," presents how those memoirists -- Ann Hood (Comfort), Mark Doty (Heaven’s Coast), and Trent Preszler (Little and Often) -- used writing as an important component of healing after loss. Nancy’s emotionally compelling narrative presentation will be followed by an opportunity for questions, comments, and discussion.

Nancy is the manager of an independent bookshop in Belfast, Maine, and has been a freelance writer and editor. She is currently writing a book about the nearly ten years she spent as a cruising sailor with her late husband, as well as essays on such eclectic and diverse topics as seasickness, saddle shoes, the art of bookselling, and being a widow.

Register directly on Zoom HERE.  Presented in collaboration with the Memorial Hall Library in Andover.

NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.