Live events again!!!! <<First Name>>
The Scribe Sisters - Charbonneau, O'Finlan, Willan

Three New England novelists who love to weave stories with strong characters who prevail against the odds will be visiting Village Square Booksellers in Bellows Falls on Thursday, July 22nd at 5 pm.

Reverend Jane Willan is the author of the Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery series. In Jane’s cozy mysteries, the Anglican order of nuns at the Welsh Abbey Gwenafwy find a murder for every liturgical season.

Eileen O’Finlan ’s novels Kelegeen and Erin’s Children illuminate a family saga of the Irish of the Great Hunger of the 1840s and 50s. Eileen is a Finalist in the Goethe Award for Historical Fiction.

Eileen Charbonneau lives in Bellows Falls and is the author of the multiple award-winning Code Talker Chronicles and American Civil War Brides series. Eileen is a member of the Bellows Falls Woman’s Club and Friends of the Rockingham Library.

Eileen is happy to announce the first of a 1990s set Young Adult series: The Linda Tassel Mysteries. Linda's first adventure is Death at Little Mound.

Jane and the two Eileens hope you will join them for a talk about their books and their writing process on July 22 at 5 PM.  Call 802-463-9404 for reservations. https://www.villagesquarebooks.com/event/scribe-sisters-charbonneau-ofinlan-willan
 

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July 23- August 2: Blue Sky Days - check out the emergency kit window display in our window and other windows in the Square.
The Red Cross uses the terms “Blue Sky Days” and “Gray Sky Days" to describe different types of actions related to emergency preparedness.
During Blue Sky Days the focus is on preparing for future emergencies so that when they occur all relief work can run smoothly.
A Gray Sky Day is when a natural disaster strikes and all hands are on deck assisting people and assessing property and infrastructure damaged by the event.
The planning done during these clear Blue Sky Days is what saves lives when the skies turn dark. Our climate is changing, that means we need to be prepared to change with it.

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Rockingham Old Home Days Sale - Friday July 30, Saturday July 31, Sunday August 1.  Check out our Clearance Table

Vermont author Howard Coffin will be at the Rockingham meeting House on Sunday August 1

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Gone with the Wind at Bellows Falls Opera House

Village Square Booksellers is sponsoring Gone With the Wind movie at the Bellows Falls Opera House on Wednesday August 4,2022 at 7pm.  Prior to the movie, Dottie Morris, Associate Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, Keene State College Diversity and Multiculturalism Department, will give us an introduction to the movie.  Classic movies are $6 each and Triple Up refreshments are $5. 

Presented as originally released in 1939. Includes themes and character depictions which may be offensive and problematic to contemporary audiences (hence the introduction by Dottie Morris). The epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler.

For the thousands who remember its unparalleled drama, action and romance! For the new thousands to whom the wonders will be revealed for the first time! Breathtaking spectacle, inspired acting by the greatest cast ever assembled! The screen's most exciting love story! The most-talked about picture ever made! 

Event date: Wed, 08/04/2021 - 7:00pm to 11:00pm

Event address: 7 The Square Bellows Falls, VT 05101

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Little Women at Bellows Falls Opera House

Village Square Booksellers is sponsoring a showing of the 1933 version of the Little Women movie at the Bellows Falls Opera House on Wednesday August 25th at 7pm, Directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee and Jean Parker. The screenplay, by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, is based on the 1868-69 two-volume novel of the same name, by Louisa May Alcott. The Classic movie costs $6 and a Triple up costs $5

Set in Concord, Massachusetts, during and after the American Civil War, the film is a series of vignettes focusing on the struggles and adventures of the four March sisters and their mother, affectionately known as Marmee (Spring Byington), while they await the return of their father (Samuel S. Hinds), who serves as a colonel and a chaplain in the Union Army. Spirited tomboy Jo (Katharine Hepburn), who caters to the whims of their well-to-do Aunt March (Edna May Oliver), dreams of becoming a famous author, and she writes plays for her sisters to perform for the local children. Amy (Joan Bennett) is pretty but selfish, Meg (Frances Dee) works as a governess, and sensitive Beth (Jean Parker) practices on her clavichord, an aging instrument sorely in need of tuning.

The girls meet Laurie (Douglass Montgomery), who has come to live with his grandfather, Mr. Laurence (Henry Stephenson), the Marches' wealthy next-door neighbor. The Laurences invite them to a lavish party, where Meg meets Laurie's tutor, John Brooke (John Lodge). During the next several months John courts Meg, Jo's first short story becomes published, and Beth often takes advantage of Mr. Laurence's offer for her to practice on his piano.

Marmee learns that her husband is recuperating in a hospital in Washington, D.C., after an injury, so she goes to Washington to care for him. During her absence Beth contracts scarlet fever from a neighbor's baby. She recovers, albeit in a weakened condition. The March parents return, and Meg marries John. Laurie confesses his love to Jo, who rejects him. When he snubs her in return, Jo moves to New York City to pursue her writing career, and she lives in a boarding house. There she meets Professor Bhaer (Paul Lukas), an impoverished German linguist. With his help and encouragement Jo improves her writing, and she resolves her confused feelings about Laurie.

Beth, debilitated, is near to death, so Jo returns to Concord to be with Beth and her family during this time. After Beth dies, a grieving Jo learns that Amy, who accompanied Aunt March to Europe, has fallen in love with Laurie, accepted his proposal and they return, having married. Upon their return, Jo is happy for Laurie and Amy, indicating it has turned out as it always should have been. Professor Bhaer then arrives from New York City, and with him he brings Jo's manuscript for Little Women, which is soon to be published. He confesses his love to Jo and proposes. Jo accepts, welcoming him to the family.

Event date:  Wed, 08/25/2021 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Event address: 7 The Square Bellows Falls, VT 05101

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Bill Lockwood Gare De Lyon - BF3F September 17 at 6pm

Village Square Booksellers welcomes Vermont author Bill Lockwood on Friday September 17 at 6pm, who will discuss his newest novel, Gare De Lyon. Mary O'Riley, native of Boston, goes to Paris to study art on the eve of WWII. Caught in the occupation, she works in a bakery but finds herself frequently carrying messages for her boss. When the SS raids the bakery and arrests the owner, Mary must flee Paris to avoid her own arrest, and the Resistance group she has helped assigns her to escort a downed RAF flyer south to Lyon. Freddy Winston volunteered to fly secret missions to occupied France. On one of his runs, gunfire surprises him as Resistance members unload passengers and supplies. The plane catches fire, stranding him behind enemy lines. Freddy doesn't like that Mary is Irish. She insists she's just American. They may not like each other but discover quickly they must team up to reach their mutual goal of escaping the Nazis.  This is a BF3F event- Bellows Falls 3rd Friday. Call 802-463-9404 for book and event reservations.

 

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David Sedaris at Bellows Falls Opera House - Book sales only VSBOOKS

An Evening with David Sedaris

Wednesday, September 22, 7:30 pm

Location: Bellows Falls Opera House. 7 Square. Bellows Falls, VT
       

Tickets: $55 orchestra and $45 balcony. Catamount Arts is selling tickets - Village Square Booksellers has the book concession - check our website event for a full book list and pre-order please so we can organize the book signing.  Book orders can be placed in the bookstore - please note that we have agreed to split sales with Catamount, so try to pay by cash or check if you can...  https://www.villagesquarebooks.com/event/david-sedaris-bellows-falls-opera-house-book-sales
With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition. Calypso, his latest collection of essays, is a New York Times best-seller, and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The audiobook of Calypso was nominated for a 2019 Grammy in the Best Spoken Word Album category.

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Archer Mayor - Marked Man BF3F on Oct 15 at 7pm

Village Square Booksellers welcomes our favorite author, Archer Mayor, from Newfane, Vermont, back to Bellows Falls for his yearly appearance, on Friday October 15th at 7pm, as part of BF3F.  

In Archer Mayor's Marked Man, the death of a local millionaire becomes suspicious when Joe Gunther learns that he was not who he claimed.

A year ago, local philanthropist and millionaire Nathan Lyon died a natural death in his sprawling mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it seemed at the time. Now Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team has discovered that almost nothing about that story was true. Nathan Lyon was actually Nick Bianchi from Providence, Rhode Island. His money came from Mafia-tainted sources. And his family now seems to be dying themselves and their deaths are now revealed to be murders.

As Gunther's team desperately works to uncover what is going on at The Mill, who is responsible and what they are trying to accomplish, Joe himself travels to Rhode Island to look into the original source of the money. While the police are doing their jobs, private investigator Sally Kravitz teams up with reporter Rachel Reiling to expose the truth behind this tangled and expanding web of duplicity, greed, and obsession. Having betrayed many, it's no surprise that Nathan Lyon was a marked man. But now Gunther has to figure out who, among the many, killed him, and stop them before their killing spree claims another.

ARCHER MAYOR, in addition to writing the New York Times bestselling Joe Gunther series, is a death investigator for the state medical examiner and has twenty-five years of experience as a firefighter/EMT. He lives near Brattleboro, Vermont .

Event date: Fri, 10/15/2021 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Event address: 32 The SquareBellows Falls, VT 05101

Call 802-463-9404 to reserve your books or order online at https://www.villagesquarebooks.com/book/9781250224163

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Date to be determined:  Elayne Clift

In making much of the mundane, 53 poets share 70 poems in the anthology A 21stCentury Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic. The poems, by diverse and award-winning writers, capture and share the collective Covid experience in which we became "gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth," as writer May Sarton put it. They reveal that we were brave in our contemplative journey, and that we dared "to deal with our bag of fears," as Eudora Welty said we must. The poetic expressions of such courage are healing. They soothe us and help us recover from, and recall, a transformative experience. This anthology adds to the tradition of sharing stories in well-chosen words that move and enlighten us.  University Professors Place $24.95
 

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Speaking of the pandemic, all of these events have been planned hoping that Vermont is still a safe place and that Covid shut-downs do not recur. We require masks in the bookstore to keep our children under 12 and our immune-compromised customers safe. Throughout this past past year +, we appreciate the support that our community has given Village Square Booksellers.  We will continue to offer free local delivery (20 miles) plus customer pickup.  Pat, Alan, Myles (who is heading out for a much-needed vacation- how will we find things in the store????), Shelby and Bella Fuzz

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Community Events <<First Name>>
Bellows Falls 3rd Friday  for details: https://www.facebook.com/BellowsFalls.3rdFriday. Canal Street Gallery Opening, Live Music on the Exner Block, Village Square Booksellers open, Bellows Falls Opera House movies.  Farmer's Market, Restaurants, etc.

Bellows Fall Farmer's Market: Fridays at the Waypoint Center 4-7 pm

Main Streets Arts: