Coming to the Highland Center for the Arts:
Enjoy summer evenings with Vermont authors in an intimate setting. Make a night of it; stop by the café for dinner or drinks, or come from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm for a garden party on the patio or in the gallery, featuring local food and drink pairings.
In her book, The Surgeon and the Shepherd, Meg Ostrum weaves an unusual blend of spy tale, social history, and biography, museum professional. She chronicles Dr. Charles Schepens’ remarkable career masquerading as double agent Jacques Perot, leader of a top secret Belgian resistance escape route in the Pyrenees during WWII and credited with saving many lives. A week before he died in 2006, Dr. Schepens received the Legion d’Honneur award from the French government. A Vermont-based arts consultant who worked in the heritage preservation field for more than 25 years, Ostrum has edited several documentary studies and collections of oral histories. In writing her book, Ostrum conducted oral history interviews with Schepens and dozens of people throughout France and Belgium who had been participants or witnesses, bringing new attention to the quiet heroism of Dr. Schepens and his co-conspirators.