Maryann Proper - Author Talk

Meet local author Maryann Proper at the Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts, 957 NY-82, Ancram, this Saturday, April 25th, from 3:30-5pm

Ms. Barto will be selling and signing copies of her novel, A Story From a Basket Maker’s Daughter: The Hill. 

Maryann Proper Barto grew up in West Taghkanic with her basket-making mother, Elizabeth Proper. Over the years, Proper family stories sparked Maryann’s interest in researching forgotten history, which is woven into her writing. Her novel is set in a rustic village known as The Hill, whose inhabitants have depended upon one another for survival, fearing the consequences of carefully kept secrets and the rapidly changing world beyond their long tradition of Isolation.