The stories of Betsy Connor Bowen

Day dawned cloudy and raining. Just what we wanted. Up at first light. Fetched Dave Bubier, holding down the lead role of Lester Darrow. He brought the guns. Drove to Roberta and David Manter, gracious providers of the perfect location. Met up with producer Dean Gyorgy (dgmediaarts.com) and his wife Margot, playing the lady from Massachusetts. Dean scouted [...]

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March in Spring Bear‘s Soper’s Mills is pretty much like March in Dover-Foxcroft, Guilford or Milo — snow’s melting, roads are muddy, flu season’s on the wane, and it sure feels good to get outside. The time had come to bring Spring Bear home. The Thompson Free Library booked me into a comfy B&B in [...]

“Kids up here in this rural county need to know what’s going on outside of their schools and dooryards,” the charming school librarian at Piscataquis Community in Guilford told me. So I’m giving it my all. In just two weeks I’ll be speaking on “Living a Creative Life in Today’s World,” on Tuesday, March 15 [...]

DECISIONS People have choices to make in life, and deciding what choice to make can take time and a lot of thought. Have you ever made a decision as difficult as Evvie’s or known anyone who did? What was the decision and what were the factors that you/the person considered? Do we always know if [...]

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Kenneth Gorrell found  the manuscript of this book (by UPI reporter Henry Gorrell, his first cousin twice removed) in an attic. He wouldn’t have, had the two sides of his family not been disinherited and un-disinherited from their New Hampshire homestead. He had the crumbling onionskin pages re-typed, did research to amplify and modernize the [...]

You just never can tell what you’ll run into. “Back from Tobruk” has a missing relative, and tomorrow I’ll know more. I’m going to a Virginia Festival of the Book talk by Kenneth Gorrell, who discovered in an attic the manuscript that became “Soldier of the Press: Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa, [...]

SPRING BEAR is getting good reviews! Kennebec Journal reviewer Bill Bushnell wrote: It is  not often  that  a  fiction  writer  can  capture  the  complete,  vivid  flavor of  a  full  story  in  less  than  100  pages,  but  Betsy  Connor  Bowen  has  done  it  with  her  debut  book,  SPRING  BEAR.    Bowen  is  a  journalist  and  filmmaker  who  [...]

SPRING BEAR launched in my home town of Wayne, Maine at the Cary Memorial Library on July 5, 2009. The audience was spectacular. Book lovers to a one, so many of them dear friends –  it was a very happy day. First, I read from the book. This is from the last chapter. Then, the [...]