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Yarmouth History Center welcomes local author Richard Wile to the Spring Lecture Series at 7:00pm on Wednesday, May 17. He will speak about his latest book, The Geriatric Pilgrim: Tales from the Journey. This free program will be held in person at the Yarmouth History Center, 118 East Elm Street in Yarmouth.
In The Geriatric Pilgrim, Richard Wile explores how making physical pilgrimages helped him see that his life itself has been a pilgrimage, one that began in his hometown of Yarmouth. He writes, “As I traveled back through the landscape of my life in the 1950s and 60s, I discovered terrain I’d always viewed through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia and views I’d always ignored or turned away from. Trying to look at this time in my life with the same curiosity I’d had when making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem or San Francisco’s City Lights Book Store turned out to be uncomfortable at times, but also transforming, giving me hope, not only for my future, but for my grandchildren’s futures as well.”
Richard Wile is a retired high school English teacher and writing consultant at Bates College who has published essays, stories, reviews, and poetry in several magazines. An earlier novel, Requiem in Stones, was published in 2016.
This lecture is free and open to all. The lecture series is sponsored by the Leon and Lisa Gorman Fund.
