''meet the authors'' at studio b yesterday; this poetry project & the stories behind six other authors & their writing.

yesterday, the labors of our fingertips: poems from manufacturing history in berks county was a part of studio b's annual meet the authors event. this year, it featured seven authors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. 

a children's book involving pennsylvania dutch language-learning acted as a nice blur of fiction and nonfiction written by folk artist and art teacher rachel yoder, with penny olive, inspired by yoder's grandmother.

war stories, old days of economies and industries built around coal mines, tales of lives shaped around fracking in northeastern pennsylvania, and poetry starting with being mesmerized by a single tree were a part of the event, besides the manufacturing history poems from this project.

thank you to bob wood of new hanover township and studio b's collection of volunteer coordinators--who helped in part with scene-snapping of some of the visuals of the afternoon.