[Yale-readings] 10-23: Donald Hall - Memoir - Book Signing & Talk at NH Museum

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Recent U.S. Poet Laureate & New Haven area native Donald Hall
Talk, Reading & Book Signing
Unpacking the Boxes: Memoir of a Life in Poetry

When:  October 23, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Where:  New Haven Museum - 114 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT

Cost Per Person:  FREE - Donations Welcomed: $10 adults, $5 students

"Unpacking the Boxes:  A Memoir of a Life in Poetry" by recent Poet Laureate
of the United States, Donald Hall, speaks for language, ideas, and
connectedness to place with eloquence and feeling. Best of all, one of
Hall's places is here in Connecticut. Raised in Hamden in and around the
region's once prominent Brock-Hall Dairy - his family's business - Hall was
also influenced by his maternal grandparents who occupied a
multi-generational family farm in New Hampshire. Donald Hall's life and work
speak of a quality of New Englandism and what it means to be American. In
Hall's America agriculture conferred status and opportunity and is (or was)
the basis for a life grounded in place and environment - a message that
Connecticut needs to hear today as we grapple the consequence of sprawl and
public policies that tax localism and common sense.


William Hosley
Executive Director
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Ave.
New Haven, CT 06510
203-562-4183 x 11
cell - 860-944-8349
www.newhavenmuseum.org
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