FREEPORT — The Merrill Memorial and Freeport Community libraries will host Barbara Walsh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of “August Gale: A Father and Daughter’s Journey into the Storm,” 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24 in the Community Meeting Room at Freeport Community Library.
In “August Gale,” Walsh — who has interviewed killers, bad cops and crooked politicians in the course of her career — faces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain.
In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on God and the wind to carry them home; the other, into a squall stirred by a man with many secrets: a grandfather who remained a mystery until long after his death.
This event is free. For directions to Freeport Community Library, visit www.freeportlibrary.com or
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