Join Friends of the Stowe Free Library for an evening with Peter Zheutlin, an author and journalist whose work has appeared regularly in The Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor. On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 7pm Peter will talk about his new book, published in September 2019, called "The Dog Went Over the Mountain: Travels with Albie: An American Journey."

Inspired by a re-reading of John Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley" at the age of 64, Peter Zheutlin took his aging rescue dog Albie on a 9,000 mile odyssey across America in the Spring of 2018, mostly along Steinbeck's route. With far more sand in the bottom of his hourglass than the top, Peter wanted to take one last Great American Road Trip and rediscover the country he last crossed by car in 1977, this time in the company of his best friend.More than a travelogue, the book is also a meditation on aging, on finding meaning in the later years of life, and on the deep connections we create with our canine companions.

The book is also filled with memorable characters: a marine corps veteran in his late 60s cycling the country for more than two years who they encountered in Bismarck, a legendary 79 year-old New Orleans restaurateur, and an elderly homeless woman met in Redding, California among many others.

This is a fee event and is open to the public. Plenty of free parking is available behind the Library.

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