| | Event: | Two Book Launches - Mansfield Library | | Date: | June 18th, 2026.
| | Time: | 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM | | Location: | Mansfield Library, 55 Warrenville Rd. Mansfield Center | | Contact: | Vicky Oman, omanv@mansfieldct.org | | Website: | https://mansfieldpubliclibraryct.org | |  | |
Book Talk with David Morse & Pegi Deitz Shea
Join us to hear two Connecticut book authors present their latest works!
David Morse will be reading from his newly completed memoir, White Boy: Growing up in Arlington, Virginia in the Eisenhower Years. Triggered by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020, Morse was impelled to examine his own childhood and the racism he had learned. Written with warmth and moments of humor, this unflinching look at his own life takes place against a vividly rendered background of postwar America that foreshadows today’s upheaval in racism and violence.
In TiCK TiCK TiCK TiCK, Pegi Deitz Shea, an award-winning author and 27-year sufferer of relapsing Lyme disease, let her inner Robin Williams loose on ticks and came up with a World Tick Pageant, a craft blood bar called “Bites & Sips,” “Tickle Dating Apps,” and more zany short works. If you’ve been “touched” by ticks, try laughing at them for an evening.
About the authors:
David Morse has worked as a graphic artist, school teacher, and investigative journalist. He has hopped freights, restored old houses, raised three sons, and published a novel, The Iron Bridge. Caught up in the Darfur crisis in 2005, he journeyed to South Sudan in 2007 with support from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund. His articles and essays on human rights and environmental issues have appeared in Counterpunch, Dissent, Mother Jones, The Nation, Salon, Tom Dispatch, and elsewhere.
Pegi Deitz Shea has published more than 500 works for all ages. She is a two-time winner of the CT Book Award for Children’s Literature, with titles recommended by the International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English, American Library Association, Junior Library Guild, and other organizations. She taught creative writing for 13 years at UCONN, and has presented at more than 400 schools, libraries and conferences nationwide. She was chosen as Vernon’s Inaugural Poet Laureate and currently serves as President of the CT Council of Poets Laureate.
*Refreshments will be served
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