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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Holiday Celebration with Thomas, Capote, Carols and Good Cheer, Sebastian Lockwood, Nanette Perrotte


Peterborough, New Hampshire - On Wednesday evening, December 19th at 7pm Sebastian Lockwood and Nanette Perrotte return to the Mariposa Museum for an evening of holiday warmth and good cheer, featuring the traditional readings of Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” and Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory”, interspersed with caroling and ending with wassail and holiday treats.

One of his most popular works, Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales is the retelling of Christmas from the view of a young child, set in the time of Christmases past and portraying a nostalgic and simpler time. Dylan Marlais Thomas, born in Wales in 1914, was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems, “Do not go gentle into that good night”, “Under milk wood”, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

The short story, “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote was originally published in December 1956. It is a largely autobiographical story, which