Now in its 11th year, Stories About This Place returns to the Peterborough Town House on Friday, March 28th from 5:30 -7:30pm.
Featured storytellers:
Angelika Fretzen, C.O.O. of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Paul Hertneky, journalist, essayist, and author of Rust Belt Boy: Stories of an American Childhood
Chick Colony, owner of Harrisville Designs
Bruce Wooster, owner of Picadilly Farm
Music by David Domenick
FREE to attend. Click here to register!
Speaker information:
Angelika Fretzen
As Chief Operating Officer and Technology Translation Director at the Wyss Institute, Angelika Fretzen, Ph.D., M.B.A., is passionate about uniting and stewarding powerful teams as they work to solve the most pressing problems facing our society in healthcare and sustainability. Angelika’s work focuses on bridging the acute healthcare and equity gap for women that we still face by championing the development of innovative technologies in therapeutics, diagnostics and medical technologies to advance women’s health. A chemist by training, Angelika completed her undergraduate studies in Germany and her Ph.D. in Switzerland. She came to the United States for her postdoctoral research at Harvard University, before joining the early biotechnology community in Kendall Square in 2000. She holds an M.B.A. from Suffolk University and is deeply committed to both the personal and career development of all scientists and employees around her. She was named one of Mass High Tech’s 2013 “Women to Watch” by the Boston Business Journal.
Paul Hertneky
Over thirty-four years, Paul Hertneky has written stories, essays, and scripts for the Boston Globe, Athens News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New Hampshire Union Leader, NBC News, The Comedy Channel, Gourmet, Eating Well, Traveler’s Tales, The Exquisite Corpse, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Adbusters and many more. He covered the culinary world and restaurant industry for 17 years. His work centers on culture, food, the environment, and travel, winning him a Solas Award and two James Beard Award nominations. He is the author, most recently, of Rust Belt Boy: Stories of an American Childhood. In 2016, he was named one of "5 over 50" notable authors by Poets & Writers Magazine. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, he serves on the faculty of Chatham University.
Chick Colony
Chick grew up in Harrisville and has lived here his whole, long life except for six years away at school and college and three years serving in the US Coast Guard in New Orleans. He has been involved in Historic Harrisville since its inception in 1971 and is active on the Executive Committee. Chick founded Harrisville Designs to try to sustain the textile industry in Harrisville and to offer employment to those who live here. He was the first chairman of Inherit New Hampshire, a statewide preservation organization that grew into the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance and is a former board member of the state’s Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP), which makes annual, tax-funded investments in conservation and preservation projects throughout the state.
Bruce Wooster
Jenny and Bruce Wooster, first-generation farmers, own Picadilly Farm in Winchester. Their 71 acre property was cultivated by other farmers for many generations before them. Their farm supplies many of our local grocery stores, including the Monadnock Food Coop, the Brattleboro Food Coop, and Nature's Green Grocer, among others. Picadilly Farm has been certified Organic since 2009, with the additional "Real Organic" certification since 2021.
Music by:
David Domenick
David Domenick is a fingerstyle acoustic guitarist residing in the Green Mountains of Southern Vermont. He plays all over New England and the northeast (and just about anywhere you might want to send him).