10/05/2025
8:00 am - 3:30 pm
The Haystack Book Festival 2025 will take place Friday, October 3 through Sunday, October 5. Haystack Book Festival brings together in unmoderated conversation writers and thinkers who have something to talk about. Please click here to visit the Haystack Book Festival website.
To register for any Haystack Book Festival sessions,
please click here.
Unless otherwise listed, sessions take place at the Norfolk Library.
Haystack Book Festival
Day 3 Schedule:
8:00 a.m. “A Walk in the Woods”
Make sure you have your hiking boots ready for a short field trip in Great Mountain Forest with author and conservationist Brian Donahue, author of “Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests,” and GMF Executive Director Mike Zarfos. Learn about “worst first” forestry and the connection between America’s houses and local woodlands.
*Registration required – limited to 20 people.
Meet at the Great Mountain Forest Sugar House, top of Windrow Road.
For more information about this talk and walk, please click here.
11:00 a.m. “Building Local Building Green”
Brian Donahue, author of “Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests”
in conversation with
Mike Zarfos Executive Director, Great Mountain Forest
For more information about this talk, please click here.
1:30 p.m. “What is a Cookbook Anyway”
Kevin West, author of The Cook’s Garden: A Gardener’s Guide to Selecting, Growing, and Savoring the Tastiest Vegetables of Each Season
in conversation with
Sara B. Franklin, author of “The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America”
For more information about this talk, please click here.
Location
Norfolk Library
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