OCTOBER 1 – 3, 2021

Haystack Book Festival in Norfolk, CT Announces Book Festival Program at the Norfolk Library for October 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 2021

This year’s festival will feature three ways for you to participate:

1.     Live in-person @ the Norfolk Library* with 60 seats available
2.     In-person but live-streamed on the Norfolk Hub’s* large screen with 25 seats available
3.     Virtually live-streamed to watch from home.

*Proof of COVID-19 vaccination and masks required to enter.

To register for your preferred viewing mode see below….

The program for 2021 includes the following events:

The Brendan Gill Lecture

Friday evening at 6:00PM, October 1st will kick off the festival with “The Brendan Gill Lecture.”  
Robert Jones, Jr., bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novel The Prophets, a singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.

REGISTER HERE:
Norfolk Library Registration - In-Person* HERE 
Norfolk Hub Registration - Live Stream*  HERE 
Watch from home registration HERE
*Proof of COVID-19 vaccination and masks required.

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Saturday, October 2nd

Freedom in Black and White
10:00AM
Tyler Stovall, the author of White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
In conversation with:
Manisha Sinha, the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.

REGISTER HERE:
Norfolk Library Registration - In-Person* HERE 
Norfolk Hub Registration - Live Stream*  HERE 
Watch from home registration HERE
*Proof of COVID-19 vaccination and masks required.

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“A Soul Admitted to Itself”: Solitude, Sociability, and Poetry
12:00 PM
Fenton Johnson, author of At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life,
In conversation with:
Margaret Gibson, CT State Poet Laureate, and the author of Not Hearing the Wood Thrush: Poems
and The Glass Globe: Poems.

REGISTER HERE:
Norfolk Library Registration - In-Person* HERE 
Norfolk Hub Registration - Live Stream*  HERE 
Watch from home registration HERE
*Proof of COVID-19 vaccination and masks required.

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The Hidden Lives of Ordinary Things
2:30PM
Object Lessons Series – Three authors in conversation: Dinah Lenney, Kim Adrian and Matthew Battles
Object Lessons is an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things, from sardines to silence, juniper berries to jumper cables.  Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation—and from there develop original insights around and novel lessons about the object in question.
Dinah Lenney, the author of Coffee
Kim Adrian, the author of Sock
Matthew Battles, the author of Tree

REGISTER HERE:
Norfolk Library Registration - In-Person* HERE 
Norfolk Hub Registration - Live Stream*  HERE 
Watch from home registration HERE
*Proof of COVID-19 vaccination and masks required.

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Sunday, October 3

I Caught This Morning Morning’s Minion, Kingdom of Daylight’s Dauphin…”
10:00am
A bird walk on Dennis Hill (CT State Park) with Sharon Audubon Center director Eileen Fielding.

Register for this walk* HERE 
Max: 20 participants

*Proof of COVID-19 vaccination and masks required.

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VIRTUAL EVENT ONLY
What It’s Like to Be a Bird – David Allen Sibley
1:00 PM
David Allen Sibley, author of What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing – What Birds Are Doing and Why

Watch from home registration HERE

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COVID-19 NOTICE
THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL WILL REQUIRE PROOF OF COVID-19 VACCINATION AND USE OF MASKS WHILE INDOORS AND IS SUBJECT TO FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GUIDELINES FOR SAFE CONDUCT FOR IN-PERSON GATHERINGS.

ABOUT HAYSTACK BOOK FESTIVAL, A PROGRAM OF THE NORFOLK FOUNDATION, INC.

Haystack Book Festival is a stand-alone book festival that is sponsored by the Norfolk Foundation with patronage from residents and businesses in Norfolk, CT. Our objective is to bring writers and thinkers together in unmoderated conversation to explore new ideas, concepts, and designs, in literature and in the arts. As well as exploring nature and its relationship to humans and other beings, and the beauty of the Earth, among other topics. www.norfolkfoundation.net/book-talks

Haystack Book Festival is sponsored by the Norfolk Foundation, a 501©3 private operating foundation, is dedicated to contributing to the vitality and sustainability of the town of Norfolk, Connecticut, particularly in relationship top the town’s natural setting and multiple artistic and cultural attractions. www.norfolkfoundation.net