HAYSTACK BOOK FESTIVAL
All events are held at the Norfolk Library*
9 Greenwoods Road East
*Except Friday at 6 PM and Sunday at 8 AM
HAYSTACK BOOK FESTIVAL IS A PROGRAM OF THE NORFOLK HUB
FALL 2026 Norfolk, Connecticut
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2:
6:00 PM Brendan Gill Lecture—A Conversation with Belle Burden
Belle Burden, author of Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage talks with Roxanne Coady, RJ Julia Bookseller Registration recommended.Location: Infinity Hall, 20 Greenwoods Road West.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3
10:30 AM Across Borders and Belonging—Exile, Identity, and American Lives Abroad
David Mayers, author of Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years 1935-1941 in conversation with Nicholas Boggs, author of Baldwin: A Love Story
1:00 PM After the Wounds—War, Memory, and the Search for What Endures
David Nasaw, author of The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II in conversation with Elizabeth Samet, author of Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
3:00 PM Inventing America—Power and Myth at the Nation’s Edges
Craig Fehrman, author of This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark in conversation with Megan Kate Nelson, author of The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4
8:00 AM A Walk in the Woods at Great Mountain Forest with Mike Zarfos, Sophie Pinkham,and Robert Moor*
Registration is required: Limited to 20 people. Location: Great Mountain Forest Sugar House, top of Windrow Road.
11:00 AM Among the Trees—History, Culture, and Environment
Sophie Pinkham, author of The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires in conversation with Robert Moor, author of In Trees: An Exploration
To register, go to: www.haystackbookfestival.org
HAYSTACK BOOK FESTIVAL IS A PROGRAM OF THE NORFOLK HUB
