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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Boats Against the Current with Author Richard
  Webb
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LOCATION:6 Monteith Drive, Farmington, CT 06032, United States
ROOM: Virtual Author Talk: Boats Against the Current with Author Richard W
 ebb
DESCRIPTION:Join Westport author Richard "Deej" Webb for a readi
 ng and discussion of his book Boats Against the Current. Deej will chat a
 bout his book, do a live reading, and then take questions from attendees.\
 r\nHistorian Richard Webb grew up in Westport a few doors down the street 
 from where the Fitzgeralds had lived some forty years earlier. Fascinated 
 with the Fitzgeralds, when Webb learned that author Barbara Probst Solomon
 , who grew up across the river from the F.E. Lewis estate, proposed in the
  New Yorker that Westport was the real setting for Fitzgerald's Great
  Gatsby, he was stirred to actively researching her claim.\r\nBoats Agains
 t the Current tells the real story behind the famous novel and its tragic
  hero, debunking the long-held belief that the book was solely inspired by
  the Fitzgerald's time in Great Neck, across the Sound in Long Island
 , and lays out enough information about the fascinating Mr. Lewis that it 
 is difficult not to believe that author Webb has located the true inspirat
 ion for one of the most captivating and iconic characters in American lite
 rature, the great Gatsby himself.\r\nA companion book to the documentary 
 Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story, Boats Against the Current also re
 counts Webb's own journey of making the film with fellow Westporter a
 nd filmmaker, Robert Steven Williams.\r\n \r\nRegistration Required. Join
  us via Zoom!\r\nInstructions for Zoom: \r\nPlease download the Zoom app 
 on your computer, phone or tablet. You do not have to have a Zoom account 
 to join the meeting. When you register for this program, you will be sent 
 a unique Zoom ID and password. A few minutes before the event, open the Z
 oom app and type in the meeting ID to join us. \r\nNeed help joining Zoom
 ? Check out this video!\r\nOr for tech help please email us a few days 
 before the event and we will be happy to assist you.\r\nFarmington Librari
 es Virtual Program Code of Conduct Policy\r\n 
URL:https://www.farmingtonlibraries.org/event/virtual-author-event-boats-a
 gainst-current-author-richard-webb-17011
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