Co-sponsored by the Wilson Museum & Castine Arts Association

Local author Todd R. Nelson will be reading from his latest book, The Land Between the Rivers (Downeast Books, October 2024), and will be available to sign your copy! This event is co-sponsored by the Wilson Museum and the Castine Arts Association, and copies of Todd’s book can be purchased at Compass Rose Books.

About the Author

After a long career as a teacher and administrator in public and private schools in Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, and three small, rural towns in Maine, Todd R. Nelson retired to write about life in Maine, his school experiences, and the arc of the Nelson family. For six years, he was principal of The Adams School in Castine. Since 1998, the Nelsons have lived in Castine.

His essays, Opeds, and poems have appeared in the Ellsworth American, the Castine Patriot, Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, Bangor Daily News, Bangor Metro, Maine Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Taproot, The Christian Science Monitor, Wooden Boat, Northern Journeys, Maine Public Radio, Education Week, Appalachia, Portland Press Herald, and The Adams School Parent Newsletter. He and his wife, Lesley Brody Nelson, live in Penobscot, Maine. They have three adult children, Spencer, Hilary, and Ariel, and two grandchildren, Freya and Malcolm.