Events Ham Gillett presents Dylan Thomas’s Lyrical Portrait of Holidays Past
Date
A Traditional Reading at NWPL...
Send the kids to romp outside, take off your apron, stash the light-hanging ladder, and join us on Saturday, December 13, from 12:00-12:30 OR 1:00-1:30 for Ham Gillett’s traditional Wassail reading.
The Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, looks back with a child’s-eye view of a magical time of presents, family, and newly fallen snow in the seasonal classic A Child’s Christmas in Wales, written in the early 1950s.
Ham Gillett has shared this story during Wassail Weekend for more years than he can remember. He offers us a time to be still, to close our eyes, and be transported by Thomas’s matchless weaving of lyrical words and evocative images.
This reading is free and open to the public and – despite the essay’s title – is geared toward listeners 10 and older. First-come, first-seated; space is limited.
Illustrations from Fritz Eichenberg's A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Contact
Phone:
802 457 2295
10 The Green
Woodstock, VT 05091
United States
