Saturday, August 6 at 2:00 pm in the Marc Jacobs Reading Room
Join author Mickey Maguire as he shares his new memoir Feather White - A 1970s Memoir: Commercial Fishing Out of Provincetown and the Backwoods Counterculture Movement in Nova Scotia. The event will take place in the Library’s Marc Jacobs Reading Room on Saturday, August 6 at 2:00 pm.
From the decks of off-shore scallop boats out of Provincetown to the backwoods of the Maritime Provinces, Feather White chronicles a young man’s emergence from an alcoholic family and his search for his missing pieces.
The memoir charts the excruciating journey from ostracized half-share greenhorn to respected crew member. It relates several death-cheating experiences at sea, alcohol-clouded misadventures of rowdy crew, and how he used dogged determination and humor to succeed when many around him wanted nothing but failure.
Mickey Maguire, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has worked as an off-shore scallop boat deckhand out of Provincetown, Cape Cod, a ship’s cook, a farmworker, in a blacksmith’s forge in Nova Scotia where he built his own log cabin in 1974, as a banjo player for touring and recording bluegrass band James Reams & The Barnstormers and New Jersey’s String Fever, a working actor in New York City and Screen Actors Guild member, guitar player in a swing and country trio and, for thirty-three years, Assistant Program Director for the St. Francis Residences, a residential program providing permanent housing for homeless mentally ill individuals in Manhattan.
Graduating (barely) with an English Major from Rowan University (formerly Glassboro State College), Mickey balanced his education with the acquisition of land in Nova Scotia and building his hand-made log cabin before his senior year. Throughout his artistic and philanthropic pursuits, Mickey has been a writer. Beginning with his first love, poetry, and shifting to articles, he has placed humorous pieces in trade magazine National Fisherman and Banjo Newsletter Magazine. Feather White is based on the copious journal notes he kept during the 1970s. He has been accused of being funny in the telling.
