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NORWAY — Local author Robert W. Spencer will read and discuss his latest book, “Prospects: Mining for Maine Riches,” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1. The talk is sponsored by Norway Memorial Library.
The talk will be on Zoom and last an hour. Spencer will read excerpts from his book, discuss how and why he wrote it, and allow participants to ask questions and share opinions of the book.
The historical fiction novel features the discovery of The Primus, the first tourmaline found in Maine, on Mount Mica in Paris. It features Canadian miner Clarence Potter, who moves to Maine in 1897 to make his fortune working the Oxford County pegmatite mines and finds himself immersed in a welcoming community of native Mainers. One exception is widow Aphia Stevens, an herbalist who has not been able to escape her personal demons. She makes life difficult for Potter and his new wife from Massachusetts, and for the family of successful dressmaker Lizzie Millett. The story takes place with a backdrop of the Maine mining scene at the turn of the twentieth century.
Spencer, after living 40 years in downtown Boston, lives in South Waterford. His home is a former water-powered box mill on City Brook, where he writes at a desk perched above a breached split-granite dam.
To attend the program, visit networkmaine.zoom.us/j/89331246244. For more information, call 207-743-5309 ext. 1, stop by the information desk, at 258 Main St., or email norlib@norway.lib.me.us.
