Words featured in Hudson’s StoryFest

The 15 events are being held from October 16 to November 23 in several places in Hudson, including church halls, a library and art gallery.

The Greenwood Center for Living History, a 275 year-old home built along the shoreline of the lake of Two Mountains and generously bequeathed to the community by Phoebe Hyde, its last owner, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. « StoryFest: Playing with Words » is a once in-a-blue-moon event, one not to be missed.

“We are delighted that Hudson’s own Lorne Elliot will be giving a master class on the art of story telling. Lorne Elliot grew up in Hudson and began his career as a folk musician in Newfoundland, in 1974, when he developed his own style of telling stories through songs, monologues and jokes, increasingly based on real life experiences. For many years, he has been host of the CBC’s radio show “Madly Off In All Directions”. In the past few years, he has toured the country and written screen plays and TV comedy. His plays have been presented at the Upper Canada Playhouse. This October, he has been touring his one-man show “The Collected Mistakes” across British Columbia,” said Bill Young, one of the co-organizers of “StoryFest”.

Lorne Elliott will give his story telling workshop on Sunday, November 4, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Galerie Harwood.

Roy MacGregor, currently Page Two columnist for the Globe and Mail, opened the month-long series of events with a reading from his works on Tuesday, October 16 at St. Mary’s Parish Hall. He has published a long list of books. His most recent is “Canadians: A Portrait of a Country”.

Gil Courtemanche is the author of “A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali: A Good Death” a novel set against the Rwandan genocide. He will be at St. James Parish Hall, at 642 Main Road on Tuesday October 23 at 7:30 p.m.

Noah Richler, writer, broadcaster, and recent editor of the Books Section of the

National Post, is author of “This Is My Country, What’s Yours?”. He will be featured on Thursday, November 1, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Parish Hall, 261 Main Road.

Claire Mowat is the wife of Farley Mowat. Her latest book is “Travels with Farley” set mainly in the Magdalene Islands, where the Mowats had a home from 1970-1977. She will be featured on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Parish Hall, 261 Main Road.

Karen Molson is a seventh generation member of the Molson Family, and has written “The Molsons: Their Lives & Times, 1780-2000” and “Harland de Montarville: Molson: Man of Honour”. She will be featured on Monday, November 12, at 7:30 p.m. at St. James Parish Hall, 642 Main Road.