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Friday, July 17th at 6pm.

Join audiobook narrator, Heather Henderson, for live readings from The Curve of Time, by M. Wilie Blanchet on Friday, July 17th at 6pm. This historical Pacific Northwest maritime memoir follows Blanchet’s trips she took with her children in the 1920s-1930s in a 25-foot cabin cruiser, Caprice. Heather has won national awards as a voice actress and has narrated hundreds of commercials and over one hundred audiobooks. The Curve of Time is a classic of regional literature and is perfect for the setting of the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center’s Doerfler Family Theater which overlooks Yaquina Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

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Heather Henderson is an award-winning voice actress, writer and researcher. After graduating from the University of Oregon and then earning a Master’s in English at the University of Washington, she entered the Yale School of Drama for four years, earning her Doctorate of Fine Arts degree in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. She spent her early career working as a publicist, dramaturg, and arts journalist. Her features, reviews and poems have appeared in newspapers and magazines on both coasts; her dramaturgy credits include the 1987 Broadway world premiere of August Wilson’s Fences.

Excerpted from Heather’s blog post about the book (https://heatherannehenderson.com/2014/07/04/a-narrators-joy-the-curve-of-time/):

“. . . Both her writing and the places she writes about are magical. I’ve been captivated by this book since the first time I read it many years ago. . . .

. . . just as extraordinary is the woman herself: eloquent, witty, tough, sensitive, sensible, and intrepid. Born in Montréal in 1892, Muriel Wylie Liffiton grew up in a well-to-do family; she attended private school and excelled as a scholar and a rower. She married early, at the age of 18, and shortly afterward she and her husband Geoffrey Blanchet moved to Vancouver Island, settling into a cottage at Curteis Point on the then-remote Saanich Peninsula north of Victoria. They bought a boat – the 25-foot cabin cruiser Caprice – and began to enjoy family outings in it around the shorelines and islands near their home.

In 1926, Geoffrey took Caprice out on a solo camping trip and didn’t return. The boat was found empty, and his body was never recovered . . .

This left Capi a young widow with five children to raise on little more than her own wits and financial creativity. She began taking her children on summer-long sojourns on Caprice. She wrote essays about their trips and ultimately published them as a compilation, The Curve of Time, released just a few months before her death in 1961.