Robin Edward Trudel got his start in woodcarving when a co-worker gave him a carving knife and encouraged him to carve a mushroom. Shortly after completing his first piece, he discovered and joined the New England Wood Carvers (www.newc.org). His boundless enthusiasm soon found him volunteering for the organization and eventually serving as president for […]

Ilene Richard is a fine art painter and children's book illustrator working out in the Berkshires. Her focus is figurative painting but she also experiments with various other subject matter. Whether she paints in her graphic style or a more portraiture approach, Ilene uses wonderful color combinations to enhance her overall finished paintings. There is an excitement when […]

Karen Osborn is the author of the novels, Patchwork, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Between Earth and Sky, The River Road, Centerville, winner of the Independent Publishers Gold Award, and most recently The Music Book. In reviews, she's been compared to Ian McEwan, Jodi Picoult, and Russell Banks. The New York Times has called her work, "psychologically sophisticated" and […]

Olga Rogach has a private piano studio and is an instructor at  Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  Ms. Rogach performs extensively in New England, and is acclaimed for her recitals and collaborations with instrumentalists and vocalists. In addition, Ms. Rogach is the Music Director at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Northborough and an official pianist and a board member […]

Soprano Jane Shivick is equally at home in opera, oratorio, concert, and recital. She has been a soloist for numerous orchestras across New England, including The Boston Pops Orchestra, the New York Metropolitan Orchestra, and the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra. She has been broadcast over NPR, WGBH, WICN, WOMR and WCUM radio. A graduate of Assumption University and […]

Linda A. Fletcher has been making art since she was old enough to use a box of Crayola crayons.  She started taking oil painting lessons when she was 8 years old; but in high school she got her hands on clay for the first time and knew this would be her chosen medium. Twelve years […]

CHRISTOPHER C. GORHAM  holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Tufts University and Syracuse University College of Law. After practicing law for over a decade, for the last several years he has taught Modern American History at Westford Academy, outside Boston. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, Paper Brigade Daily, and […]

Julia Glass (born March 23, 1956) is an American novelist. Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002. Glass followed Three Junes with a second novel, The Whole World Over, in 2006, set in the same Bank Street–Greenwich Village universe, with three interwoven stories featuring several characters from Three Junes. Her third novel, I See You Everywhere, was published in 2008; her […]

Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment. Ben has performed in every U.S. state except for Delaware, collaborated with groups ranging from rock bands to research scientists, contributed music to several radio and film projects (including the recent Ken Burns documentary The American Buffalo), and held residencies and fellowships with […]

John Robert Cole, a native of Buffalo, New York, retired from the United States Coast Guard in 2020 after 35-years and now calls Dracut home. He is a full-time artist and family history expert who uses his talents to bring joy and healing to the lives of others. He is best known for his dot-painted […]