Local author Spencer Oct. 8 Norway Memorial Library guest

NORWAY — Local writer Robert W. Spencer will give a reading at talk about his work from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, at Norway Memorial Library.
Spencer is the author of “The Spinster’s Hope Chest.” The Tribune, Norway’s independent bookstore, will sell books at the event. The program is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
“The Spinster’s Hope Chest” is the story of Lizzie Millett, born in Waterford, in 1861. She and her younger sister Hattie escaped their troubled childhoods and built successful lives. Lizzie’s struggles to achieve personal and professional success in a man’s world of business are struggles that, in some forms, continue for women today.
Spencer, after living 40 years in downtown Boston, now lives in South Waterford in a former water-powered box mill on City Brook, where he writes at a desk perched above a breached split-granite dam. For more information, call 207-743-5309 or visit www.norway.lib.me.us.