CBU Press announces September events schedule

The latter part of September will be a busy one for CBU Press. Check out the following schedule (and this doesn’t include October’s new releases!)

Friday, September 21, Halifax

    4 p.m., Saint Mary’s University, Atrium 216 (enter from Inglis Street)

    Book launch and presentation by Herb MacDonald, author of Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History

    Hosted by the Gorsebrook Research Institute

Sunday, September 23, Halifax

The Word on the Street, Maritime Museum Wharf, Halifax Waterfront

11:00 a.m. Meet Herb MacDonald, author of Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History, CBU Press booth.

11:00 a.m. Reading by A.J.B. Johnston, author of the novel Thomas: A Secret Life(‘Remarkable Reads with Halifax Magazine’ Stage)

    12:30 p.m. Meet A.J.B. Johnston, CBU Press booth.

        12:30 p.m. Reading by Philip Roy, author of Blood Brothers in Louisbourg (CBU Press), (‘What’s the Story with CBC’ Stage)

    2:00 p.m. Meet Philip Roy, CBU Press booth

Thursday, September 27, 7 p.m., Sydney,

    James McConnell Memorial Library, Falmouth Street

    “Sydney and its Railways,”

a public presentation by Herb MacDonald,

author of Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History (CBU Press). Refreshments.

 Friday, September 28, 6:30 p.m., Louisbourg

    S&L Railway Museum, Main Street, Louisbourg

    “Hunting the History of the S&L,

a public presentation by Herb MacDonald,

author of Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History (CBU Press)

Saturday, September 29, 1-3 p.m., North Sydney

    North Sydney Historical Museum

    Book launch and presentation

by Herb MacDonald, author of Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History (CBU Press)

Saturday, September 29, 4-6 p.m., Sydney NEW TIME!

    Allegro Deli and Grill, 222 Charlotte Street, Sydney

    Book launch:  Thomas: A Secret Life, A Novel, by A.J.B. Johnston (CBU Press)

Monday, October 1, 7pm

  Antigonish Heritage Museum

    “Antigonish: Town and County in the Railway Age,”

a public presentation by Herb MacDonald, author of Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History (CBU Press)

    Refreshments will follow.

Saturday, October 13,

    Truro Model Railroaders’ Annual Train Show,

NSCC, 36 Arthur Street, Truro, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

    Herb MacDonald, author of Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History

Saturday, October 20, 2-4 p.m.

    Colchester Historical Society Museum and Archives, 29 Young St., Truro.

    Meet & greet book signing

with A.J.B. (John) Johnston, author of Thomas: A Secret Life (CBU Press)

Watch for future anouncements about French Taste in Atlantic Canada 1604-1758: A Gastronomic History by Anne Marie Lane Jonah and Chantal Véchambre and Trapper Boy, by Hugh R. MacDonald

Posted by Mike Hunter on September 7, 2012