The next Newbury Book Discussion Group is on Thursday, Jan. 6 - 7:00-8:00PM at the Tenney Memorial Library. In a change of pace, we are leaving the fiction world and reading Tony Horwitz's "Spying on the South." In this book, Horowitz "follows as closely as he can the path taken by Frederick Law Olmsted, who in the early 1850s — long before he thought of designing Central Park or dreamed of having a revolutionary impact on other urban landscapes — traveled through the antebellum South. Olmsted explained what seemed a mysterious society to the Northern readers of The New York Times.... Horwitz followed Olmsted's journey as closely as possible...his honest curiosity got people to open up. As they did, we learn about them, their lives and their communities... Horwitz is a smooth writer and an even better reporter...and he recounts his travels with insight interspersed with humor, as well as with an intermittent raising of the eyebrows at numerous oddities and occasional evils. When he writes about history he becomes more serious, but often entertaining." (New York Times Best Books 2021). Pick up a copy of the book from your local library and squeeze in a bit of reading during the upcoming holiday season. Then join us in January and tell us what you thought of the book. We welcome new members any time!

Jan 19, 2025, 1 to 3 PM

Jan 21, 2025, 10 to 11 AM

Jan 23, 2025, 3 to 6 PM