Writing workshop at Trail Wood in Hampton
May 18—HAMPTON — A writing workshop will take place at Trail Wood, the Edwin Way Teale Memorial Sanctuary in Hampton, this month.
Teale was a prolific prize-winning author and naturalist who established Trail Wood in 1959 as a wildlife habitat with his naturalist wife, Nellie Donovan Teale. In 1980, the property was bequeathed to the Connecticut Audubon Society, which continues to maintain the 168-acre sanctuary with its extensive trail system through pastures, swampland and forests.
Several of Teale's works, including his books "A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm" and "A Walk Through the Year" were composed at his writing cabin and his farmhouse study, which the society left as they were in Teale's time.
The Teales were introduced to the land that would become their literal sanctuary by Hampton residents Wendell and Alison Davis. Wendell was Hampton's first selectman in 1959 and Alison is herself an author. The Davises spent more than three decades after the Teales' passing helping the Connecticut Audubon Society maintain the property. Now a widow, Alison Davis remains involved with the society and with annual events at the habitat, including semi-annual writing workshops.
The Spring Writers' Workshop will be held May 22 from 2 to 4 p.m. Davis will share selected readings from Teale's works, and then attendees will find their own solitary inspiration.
The fee is $20 per person, or $10 per member of the Audubon Society.
Registration in advance is required and can be made by calling the Audubon chapter at 860-928-4948.
