Join the Vermont Granite Museum for the second presentation in its Granite Lecture and Film Series!

Eric Pope, former Hardwick Gazette owner and editor, will discuss his debut historical novel, Granite Kingdom: A Novel. Set in 1910 in a northern Vermont village, protagonist Dan Strickland, a newspaper reporter, investigates fatal industrial accidents at one of the village’s big granite producers and winds up caught between the grudges of business owners and the struggles of climbing the social ladder. Pope, who consulted back issues of the Hardwick Gazette when he owned and edited the paper, wrote the book to bring a bygone era to life and to make the town’s rich heritage more accessible to modern readers. Kirkus Reviews called Granite Kingdom: A Novel “a nuanced portrayal of a community that relies on a particular industry and … a lively and well-researched tale for fans of mysteries and American social history.”

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Copies of Granite Kingdom: A Novel will be sold at this event by Next Chapter Bookstore.