A Writer’s Personal Look

At Fellowship And E-Publishing

WASHINGTON — Gunn Memorial Library will host the second talk in its Gunn Writers’ Series on Thursday October 19, at 6 pm. The informal lectures and discussions feature local writers who discuss their books, their careers, and the craft of writing.

Author, former actor, arts administrator, businessman, poet and playwright David Earl Thomson will discuss his recent e-book A Fellowship of Men and Woman, which offers an inside look at lives bruised by alcoholism.

Mr Thomson was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and almost immediately began accompanying his actor parents west to theaters in Michigan, Arizona, and then Hollywood. Throughout his adult life, the arts have played a central and defining role.

As an administrator, he worked setting up art appreciation programs for gifted inner city children. He headed the arts community at Cummington, Mass. As co-owner of an incentive travel company, he still found time to write and publish a play, as well as several poems and essays. In recent years, Mr Thomson has pursued his writing full time.

A Fellowship of Men and Women closely examines the complex faces of alcoholism and its impact on loved ones, friends, colleagues, and co-workers. The evening should prove doubly interesting, as the author will also talk about the new publishing industry of e-books, which harnesses the power of the Internet and is changing the economies of publishing.

The talk will be held in the Wykeham Room of Gunn Memorial Library, on the Washington Green at Route 47 and Wykeham Road. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For further information call the library at 860/868-7586.