Voices in the Hills, Collected Ramblings from a Rural Life, by Ryegate Corner resident Nessa Flax, occupied my time in the woods during the week. Her short essays about her experiences as an urban girl from away learning to live in rural Vermont were chosen from columns she once wrote for the Journal Opinion.

Voices in the Hills, Collected Ramblings from a Rural Life, by Ryegate Corner resident Nessa Flax, occupied my time in the woods during the week. Her short essays about her experiences as an urban girl from away learning to live in rural Vermont were chosen from columns she once wrote for the Journal Opinion.

We had a little snow recently, so it’s starting to feel like winter. I relish winters for many reasons – cross country skiing, Nordic skating and snowshoeing prime among them. But I also love winter because it gives me a chance to slow down a little and sit near the woodstove with a good book.

We had a little snow recently, so it’s starting to feel like winter. I relish winters for many reasons – cross country skiing, Nordic skating and snowshoeing prime among them. But I also love winter because it gives me a chance to slow down a little and sit near the woodstove with a good book.

Sheila Cunningham, visited Franciscan Hospital for Children to read her popular children’s book, Willow’s Walkabout: A Children’s Guide to Boston. Each child received a signed copy of the book, a wallaby-shaped cookie and a hug from Willow!

Who knew that a little boy with a premature mustache could melt your heart? (His ability to talk to animals and indomitable spirit don’t hurt, either.) A fantasy tale or a coming-of-age journey that reads like historical fiction, colored at every turn by the humanity of its author’s Peace Corps volunteer days

The small bits of wonder seek to inspire introspection and thought, and make "Under the Wild Ginger" insightful and well worth considering for those seeking bite sized wisdom to ponder as they go through life.

For 50 years, an old professor at the college Willem Lange attended performed an annual reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Lange determined that he wanted to continue the tradition, and for 37 years, he has been doing his own dramatic reading of the classic at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover.

"My favorite character was Roxie. Wobar couldn't have lived without Roxie and Roxie couldn't have lived without Wobar. It's not only an adventure for Wobar and Roxie but it's an adventure for the reader too."

And though Wobar and Roxie find themselves in many scary, sometimes life-threatening situations in Wobar and the Quest for the Magic Calumet, the novel remains a hopeful story, perhaps an extension of Homeyer’s own optimistic worldview.

Hippo Press by Jeff Mucciarone Wobar children’s book 46 years in the making Hippo readers know Henry Homeyer as the Gardening Guy. Homeyer, who lives in Cornish Flats, writes a weekly gardening column and has published three gardening books. A few weeks ago, Homeyer published his first children’s book, Wobar and the Quest for the [...]

By DOMENIC POLI / Reformer Staff SAXTONS RIVER — Henry Homeyer has grown accustomed to seeing his name in print. An avid gardener, he has published four books and writes a regular column in regional newspapers, including the Reformer. But he’s used to detailing spades, soils and seeds — not a boy born with facial [...]

The Commons Online SAXTONS RIVER—Henry Homeyer will read from his children’s book Wobar and the Quest for the Magic Calumet at Main Street Arts Saturday, Nov. 10, at 4 p.m. Accompanying him for the reading and signing will be the book’s illustrator, Josh Yunger. Best known for his weekly gardening column, Homeyer is a writer, [...]

While a few of these stanzas will resonate with most people and be familiar (and some will be a pleasant surprise, and leave you asking yourself why did I not think of that – “Compare the two sides of someone’s face”), they all have a purpose. They serve as a gentle reminder and offer a bit of clarity through the fog that is life, such as “Don’t think too much” and cause us to stop and look at something in a different light, such as “Listen for the laugher of water”.

Reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly (Willem Lange, illus. by Bert Dodson. Bunker Hill (NBN, dist.), $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59373-109-0) “I had the greatest dad that any kid has ever had,” opens this homespun and nostalgic story from the creators of Favor Johnson. The narrator’s recollections of his outdoor enthusiast father teaching him to bird watch and [...]

By Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly When an Australian wallaby escaped from the Stone Zoo in 1990, the news made headlines across the state. Among those who followed the story was Sheila S. Cunningham, though it turns out hers was more than a passing interest in the wayward marsupial. Off and on [...]

Reviewed by Debbie Roberts on Garden of Possibilites Organic Gardening (Not Just) in the Northeast:  A Hands-on Month-by-Month Guide by Henry Homeyer is one of those no-frills, no-photos-just-a-few-illustrations, chock-full-of-useful-info books that you’ll refer to again and again. Homeyer, aka The Gardening Guy,  an organic gardener for four decades as well as a syndicated garden writer and radio [...]

The History and Ecology of an Ancient American Sea People List Price: 29.95Sale Price: 25.46Savings of 15% DESCRIPTION In the closing years of the nineteenth century, strange objects began to come out of the ground in Hancock County, Maine. They were quickly recognized as prehistoric artifacts of stone, but they were very unlike the spear [...]

BRUCE BOURQUE teaches anthropology at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and is curator of archaeology at the Maine State Museum. He grew up in Massachusetts but spent boyhood summers in Maine, where he heard stories of the Red Paint People. Educated at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Harvard University, [...]

  List Price: 17.95Sale Price: 15.26Savings of 15% DESCRIPTION A boy is sure he has the world’s best father, an outdoorsman who shows him the hiding places of ground-nesting birds and teaches him to paddle a canoe and handle a rifle safely.  “Never point your gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot,” his father [...]

JOSHUA YUNGER is the illustrator of several books including Wobar and the Quest for the Magic Calumet by Henry Homeyer also coming out this October. He is a faculty member at the AVA Gallery and Art Center (Alliance for the Visual Art) in Lebanon NH. In his spare time he writes and records songs for [...]

  List Price: 19.95Sale Price: 16.96Savings of 15% DESCRIPTION Hippo and Monkey is the story of two best friends.  Little things start to bother them about each other. How can they find a way to accept each other for who they are?  This delightful tale of irritation, tolerance, and love tells us how to be [...]