Thursday, August 25 at 6:00 pm in the Marc Jacobs Reading Room

Join author Sharon Dunn as she shares her new book An Island in Time: Exploring Bound Brook Island: Its Land & People, Its Past & Present. The event will take place in the Library’s Marc Jacobs Reading Room on Thursday, August 25 at 6:00 pm. 

An Island in Time is a personal rendering and a micro-history of a beautiful and secluded place in the Cape Cod National Seashore. 

Arriving with her family in the early 1990s to spend summers in one of the island’s four original antique houses, Sharon Dunn grew to love Bound Brook Island in northwest Wellfleet. She wanted to understand and share its geological creation thousands of years ago, its native Punonakanits, its settlers, and the maritime community and individuals that once flourished there.

She explores: Why is Bound Brook Island no longer an island? How did it get its name? Why did this thriving maritime community of 150 inhabitants in the 1850s dwindle to none fifty years later? 

Sharon Dunn has published a memoir Under A Dark Eye: A Family Story, as well as two books of poems, My Brother & I and Refugees in the Garden.  She lives with her husband in Western Massachusetts and on Bound Brook Island in Wellfleet on Cape Cod.