The Gloucester Arts Festival is holding its first-ever Book Fair, featuring over two dozen local and regional authors, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Fine Arts Museum of Gloucester, 6894 Main Street.
This free event is open to the public. Guests will be able to drop in at any time, browse among the authors’ tables, chat with the writers, and purchase books, if they so desire. There will be book signings and readings, an exhibit of photographs by Freedom B. Goode, and food trucks in the parking lot for those who’d like to make a day of it.
Elizabeth Blackney, executive director of the Cook Foundation, which oversees the festival, said that the museum “proudly welcomes a distinguished group of authors whose works span poetry, mystery, memoir, and social justice.”“As we all await the arts festival in June, we are excited to bring the literary arts into focus, as well,” she said.
The idea for a book fair was brought to the Cook Foundation by Mary Shipko, an aviation pioneer, an aut...