The Garden of Ideas continues their Garden Lunch series of celebrating local authors this Wednesday, August 5 form 12:30 to 2pm. This week author Priscilla Whitley will read 3 memoirs of hers titled Summer Memories.
Ms. Whitley is a freelance writer, journalist and facilitator of The Candlewood Writers Workshop in Danbury where she has run classes for memoir writers for 10 years. As a memoirist she has been published in various anthologies such a Chicken Soup for Soul and a Cup of Comfort as well as in numerous magazines, both online and print. Her recent memoirs were featured in Brain Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers blog, in Weston Magazine Group’s six Connecticut magazines, and on online magazines. Her memoir, August on the Porch, won the prestigious Westport Arts Center Memoir Contest. She attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism as well as Fordham University and is a feature writer for The Record-Review newspaper.
Guests are invited to bring their own lunch or purchase a choice of salads and sandwiches prepared by 109 Cheese of Ridgefield. This is also an ample opportunity to stroll through the meadows, marshes and woodland to enjoy some well deserved tranquility. The cost is $5 or $3 is a CSA member.
The Garden of Ideas is a non-profit garden sanctuary located 653 North Salem Road, Ridgefield CT. The gardens are open daily, 8am to dusk, to visit. There is no fee to tour the grounds.
Partial support for The Garden of Ideas comes from the Weeden Foundation, The Lewis Fund, MyJapaneseGardener LLC, Harold Spratt, Cecily F. Grand Inc. as well as Carole Mar.