Elyssa East, author of Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a
New England Ghost Town Elyssa will
read from and discuss her book, a richly braided first-person narrative that
delves into Dogtown, an isolated colonial ruin and woodland in storied
seaside Gloucester, MA, that has long exerted a powerful influence over
artists, writers and nature lovers. But Dogtown's history is also woven
with tales of witches, supernatural sightings, pirates, former slaves,
drifters and the scar of a brutal murder that took place there in 1984.
In alternating chapters, East interlaces the story of this grisly murder
with the strange, dark history of this wilderness ghost town and explores
the possibility that certain landscapes wield their own unique power.
Book launch party! Patrick Ryan of Granta will interview Elyssa during the event. Facebook RSVP here.
