THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 FROM 1-3PM
On Sunday, October 30, from 1pm to 3pm, Friends of Riverside is sponsoring Sunday at the Fisherman with Charles Read & Friends at the Portuguese Fisherman in Hodges Square.
Charles Read, (bio below) the author of Around the Square - My New London Yesteryears, will be the main guest and will share some of his memories of growing up in the Hodges Square neighborhood.
& Friends refers to those candidates for elective office in New London who oppose the sale of Riverside Park and pledge to work with the citizens of New London to save Riverside Park
Charles Read has not lived in New London since January 1953, the day he shipped out to serve in the navy during the Korean War. Yet Read’s spirit never left the Whaling City, and now he has written a memoir of Hodges Square, the neighborhood where he was raised. The book is entitled Round the Square / My New London Yesteryears.
Read recounts his memories of World War II when New London had nightly blackouts and air raid drills. The city was a strategic area because of the Submarine Base and the Electric Boat Company.
Round the Square carries humor – fun as well as dark – and a reader feels the rollicking years of teens splashing in the Thames at Riverside Park, sandlot baseball before Little League and sneaking into the Coast Guard Academy.
Read followed a career as a newspaper writer and editor that led him to five states. Specializing in automotive journalism, he covered racing at the Indy 500, MidOhio and Lime Rock Park.
Retired and living in rural Rhode Island, he is a published short story writer and is working on more books.
