August Gale
March 4
2 p.m. Lectures & Book Talks
FREE Lecture
Maine Maritime Museum and the Maine Irish Heritage Center host Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barbara Walsh as she discusses her latest book August Gale. Barbara -who has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her journalistic 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. Together, she and her father journey to Newfoundland to learn about the 1935 storm, and along the way her dad begins to talk about the man he cannot forgive. As she recreates the scenes of the violent hurricane and a small boy's tender past, she holds onto a hidden desire: to heal her father and redeem the grandfather she has never met.
Lecture and Booksigning will be held in Portland on Sunday, March 4th at 2pm at the Maine Irish Heritage center (34 Gray Street on the corner fo State and Gray). Books will be available for sale and signing by the author.