The 2nd Annual Berkshire Blueberry and Books Festival, planned for July 23, will welcome over a dozen local authors of fiction and non-fiction including Richford native Charles Yaple, and well recognized clinician Dr. Asa Don Brown.
Charles Yaple is Professor Emeritus of Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies at State University of New York College at Cortland, where after 39 years he continues to teach environmental and outdoor education courses. Dr. Yaple is also Director of the Coalition of Education in the Outdoors.
Charles was the co-founder, first Board president and long-time director (1997-2007) of the Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture in Cortland, N.Y. A graduate of Newark Valley Central School (1959), it has been his great pleasure during a 49 year teaching career to help students see, understand, and love the land.
His books include: Foxey Brown: A Story of an Adirondack Outlaw, Hermit and Guide as He Might Have Told It (2011) and Jacob’s Land: Revolutionary War Soldiers, Schemers, Scoundrels and the Settling of New York’s Frontier (July 2016).
Foxey Brown is based on the true story of David Brennan who, convinced he had killed a man in a Boston barroom brawl, fled to the Adirondack wilderness in 1890 where he lived as a guide and woodsman until a hunting trip tragedy led to the largest manhunt in Adirondack history.
Author and speaker Dr. Asa Don Brown has worked as a clinician in both Canada and the U.S. He has been published in a variety of professional and popular journals, magazines, and online columns including: Healthy Directions, American Psychiatric, American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, Inner Peace Parenting Magazine and many others and has had regular columns in professional journals. He has published Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work (2016), Waiting to Live (2010), and The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult perceptions and Worldview (2008).
As a volunteer, Dr. Brown is continuously seeking new ways to challenge his person. In the past couple of years, he trained to become a New York State Firefighter. As he trained he enjoyed the challenge of learning a new academic perspective and the rigorous challenge of becoming a firefighter.
Most of all, he loves being a father and husband and relishes the time he has to spend with his family.
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet these, and the other authors, who will be present at the festival on July 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, at the Berkshire Free Library, Fire Station, and Community Hall at the corner of Route 38 and Jewett Hill Road.
