Author Howard Frank Mosher talks to students during his program at the Old Forge Library.
Award-winning author Howard Frank Mosher presented a program to Town of Webb high school English students and Old Forge Library book group members at the library on Thursday, November 8. Mosher discussed his book, Northern Borders, which he published in 1994 and is currently being made into a film by Jay Craven, a Vermont-based independent filmmaker.
Three of his other novels, Disappearances, A Stranger in the Kingdom and Where the Rivers Flow North, have also been made into acclaimed feature films.
Mosher has written ten novels, all set in rural areas of Vermont, which usually feature a few eccentric characters with distinctive pecularities.
During the last 15 minutes of the program, Mosher asked the students in the audience, who had been forewarned to bring pen and paper, to write about someone “quirky” in their family and submit it to him. He said he would read their entries and send them back to them.
“To have an author of his stature look at their work was a rare opportunity—it was a wonderful event,” said Library Director Isabella Worthen.
