Join us on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7pm in the Community Room of the Library. Free parking is available in front of, and behind, the Library – enter in the back of the Library after 7pm. All events are free and open to the public!

Bill Torrey, Vermont Storyteller and Author of "The Ta Ta Weenie Club"

Bill, a sixth generation Vermont, grew up in the 1960's and 1970's in Essex, Vermont enjoying the freedom of the woods and the adventure it supplied. At sixteen he bought his first chainsaw and began a forty-year career working in the woods of Vermont. Bill wrote a monthly column for Outdoor Magazine for three years and has been published in Northern Woodlands Magazine. After retiring in 2013 he pursued other callings and found oral storytelling to his liking. Bill has performed on the Moth Main Stage in Boston as well as winning four Moth Story Slams in Burlington, Vermont, three Extempo Storytelling Competitions in Central Vermont and New York's North Country Public Radio's Black Fly Story Slam and thus received the coveted Golden Fly Swatter. He has performed by invitation at Middlebury College, The Marquis Theater, The Latchis Theater, The Flynn Theater and the Vermont Statehouse.

Bills' book, The Ta Ta Weenie Club, is a collection of twenty-one stories which take place in Vermont during the '60s and early '70s, an era before car seats, airbags, and childproof caps. A time and place when a kid could leave the house in the morning to go out and play until dusk with loyal friends and tolerated family. From county fairs and middle school dances, to loving hound dogs, and mean teachers, it was a period where a parent's authority was the law and was backed up by real means. This humorous story collection reveals life's lessons that shaped the future of a young man. http://www.billtorreyvt.com/

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