Wednesday, May 8, Skype with Auburn book club, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Auburn, ME

Friday, May 10, Literary Luncheon and book discussion, 11:45 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
4 Oak Street
Boothbay Harbor, ME
(207)-633-3112

Thursday, May 16, Literary Luncheon and book discussion, Noon – 2 p.m.
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland, ME
(207)-221-4334

Tuesday, June 4, Skype book discussion with the Cromaine Library, 7 – 8 p.m.
Cromaine Library
Hartland, MI

Barbara Walsh is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who has worked for newspapers and magazines in Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Ireland. Her book, Sammy in the Sky, is illustrated by painter Jamie Wyeth; it was inspired by her family’s first dog, Sam, a loyal and loving hound who died in 2004. She is also the author of August Gale: A Father and Daughter’s Journey into the Storm, an adult biography and memoir. Barbara lives in Maine with her family and their coonhound Jack, a rescue dog from Tennessee.
BOOKS BY BARBARA:

Sammy in the Sky
August Gale
SAMMY IN THE SKY. Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Jamie Wyeth. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.