{"id":41,"date":"2012-05-23T17:33:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=41"},"modified":"2022-05-20T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T02:20:44","slug":"for-those-of-you-who-loved-strong-for-potatoes-a-certain-slant-of-light-and-a-brief-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"A Literary Barn Raising for Maine Author Cynthia Thayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/farmers-market-leeks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-60\" title=\"farmer's market - leeks\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/farmers-market-leeks-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/farmers-market-leeks-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/farmers-market-leeks-412x300.jpg 412w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/farmers-market-leeks.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN:\u00a0A Literary Barn Raising for Maine Author Cynthia Thayer<\/strong> will be held at Longfellow Books on Friday, June 1 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. There will be a gaggle of well-known authors on hand to sign their books and Longfellow Books will donate 100% of all proceeds above cost to Cynthia and Darthia Farm. Here are just some of the authors who will be with us for this special First Friday event: Liza Bakewell, Crash Barry, Brock Clarke, Melissa Coleman, Ron Currie Jr, Phillip Hoose, Shonna Milliken Humphrey, Maria Padian, Elizabeth Peavey, Caitlin Shetterly, Betsy Sholl, Monica Wood, and Colin Woodard.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fundraiser for Maine author Cynthia Thayer, whose home, Darthia Farm in Gouldsboro, suffered a horrendous fire this past week destroying the entire barn, killing nearly 100 animals and burning Cynthia as she tried to rescue her sheep. Readers know Cynthia as the author of <em>Strong for Potatoes<\/em>, <em>A Certain Slant of Light<\/em>, and <em>A Brief Lunacy<\/em> but she is also a dedicated farmer and Darthia Farm is the life and livelihood of the Thayer family. Darthia Farm is a MOFGA member farm with a community supported agriculture (CSA) program and a busy farm store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN:\u00a0A Literary Barn Raising for Maine Author Cynthia Thayer will be held at Longfellow Books on Friday, June 1 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. There will be a gaggle of well-known authors on hand to sign their books and Longfellow Books will donate 100% of all proceeds above cost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Literary Barn Raising for Maine Author Cynthia Thayer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,17,20,18],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-barn-raising","tag-cynthia-thayer","tag-darthia-farm","tag-fundraiser"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/farmers-market-leeks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}