The Waterford Historical Society is celebrating poets - present and past - in a special program for National Poetry Month.
“I Poet. Do You?” is a series of readings by living poets Patricia Wallace Powers, Beth Kanell, Paul R. Amey, and Clare Wilmot who regularly write verse and are published. Civic-minded residents, including a justice of the peace, two auditors, a retired teacher, plus a father-son pair, will read sonnets, one ballad, and free verse largely penned during a time when Waterford’s eastern border along the Connecticut River was changing due to the construction of Comerford and Moore dams. William Piper, Sandy Lyon, Dot and Al Borsodi, plus Joe Healy and his son, Teagan, are slated to read poems of the bygone era. They include the words of Waterford’s first historian, Eugenia Powers, Upper Waterford teacher Beda Nelson Carpenter, American Revolutionary soldier Timothy Hazeltine, and logging historian Robert E. Pike, author of “Tall Trees, Tough Men”. This free event takes place in the Congregational Church sanctuary in Lower Waterford. Refreshments to follow.