Summer has arrived and so has the Port Elgin Farmers’ Market at the Coulter Parkette on Green Street. The market has become a popular summer experience for both local residents and visitors.
Among the many vendors, The Brucedale Press is also bringing back the ever-popular ‘Authors Series’, where each Wednesday features an author from the area who will chat with market shoppers and autograph copies of his or her work. This summer’s schedule presents authors of books for children, young adults and more mature readers.
The Series begins on Wednesday, June 29th, with author Michael O’Neill from Huron-Kinloss. O’Neill has produced storybooks that include unique animals that behave like people, a collection of Christmas fiction and a book of anecdotes from his twin careers as a farmer and plumber.
“The storybooks of animals are made up of an anthropomorphized buzzard talking to a similarly talented rooster that has escaped a subsistence farm to try to survive on his own,” says O’Neill, “and another book has a lamb doing the same sort of thing with a llama, dogs, a cat, and a little blonde girl. Oh, and the lamb can climb trees”.
For a change of pace, he has also come up with a series of stories out of his own imagination and love of the Christmas season [available in large print]. Finally, “Tooling Around” is a series of short stories based more on past experiences. “Some are true, some are based in truth, some are downright lies,” says O’Neill [also available in large print].
Authors’ July Schedule:
July 6th: Bob Grant, who summers in Southampton, has published two mystery novels linking Scotland and Bruce County … and of special appeal to curlers.
July 13th: Doug Archer, of Southampton, now has three books in the Cold Case Kids series aimed at readers from middle grades and up.
July 20th: Bob Johnston, well-known throughout Saugeen Shores, has now completed his second book ‘More Sunset Musings’ in his trilogy from his collection of columns from the on-line Saugeen Times.
July 27: Lynne Porter, who lives at Oxenden, has researched, written, and illustrated three community histories of that area from settlement to the 1950s.
Look for them between 10:30 and 1:00 at the brown tent of The Brucedale Press in the Green Street row of market vendors.
