Well, as you can imagine, it's been a frenetic couple of weeks at Wellesley Books but we're almost through the holiday crush. In what's become a Christmas Eve tradition, we'll have most of my family deployed on the floor tomorrow, so stop in and say hello if you are doing some last minute shopping.
As a reminder about our next meeting on Wednesday, January 25th I'm including this snippet from today's Writer's Almanac:
"It's the birthday of Norman Maclean, born in Clarinda, Iowa (1902). He was a fisherman, firefighter, scholar, and teacher, but it is as the author of his autobiographical novella, A River Runs Through It, that he is best known. Just as he described in his book, Maclean grew up at the junction of two great trout rivers in Missoula, Montana, in a family that didn't draw a clear line between religion and fly-fishing. His father was a Presbyterian minister, and his rowdy younger brother, Paul, like the sibling in the book, was in fact murdered under mysterious circumstances. Maclean did not publish the story of his last summer with his brother until he was in his 70s, but after it appeared in 1976, it very quickly became a classic of American literature.
"After A River Runs Through It, Maclean wrote about a Montana wildfire that had claimed the lives of 13 firemen and smokejumpers decades before. Part mystery, part investigation, and part autobiography, Young Men and Fire (1992) would be Maclean's final book, posthumously published two years after his death in 1990."
By the way, I also wanted to highlight a great write up in yesterday's Boston
Globe on Nick O'Connell and Cask Force. You'll remember it was last January that we did an organized tasting of some of his whisky and we've sampled others over the course our meetings. I've run into Nick a couple of times over the last few months and he's eager to come in for another round of tasting. We'll see if we can get something set up soon!Until then, I'm wishing you all a happy and joyous holiday!
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