Authors To Speak About Newtown Past And Present

Authors on the Newtown Tercentennial Publications Committee are featured in the upcoming Newtown 300 television program airing Thursday, August 18, at 6:30 pm, and Saturday, .August 19, 4:30 pm, on Charter Communications Channel 21.

 These three members — Daniel Cruson, Newtown historian; Justin Scott, mystery writer; and Ray Sipherd, playwright and author — will discuss the contents of the new definitive history of Newtown and the upcoming coffee table book, which focuses on Newtown 300.

Hosted by Joanne Greco Rochman, who is also a member of the publications committee, the show will offer plenty of information on Newtown’s past and present in a most engaging and entertaining way.

The guests will be addressing topics covering everything from the historic red-light district in Newtown to a surgeon who performed surgery on himself to a list of what is still needed in the photo coffee table book. Other members on the publications committee not on the show are Mae Schmidle and Don Brooks.

The following week on August 25 at 6:30 pm and August 27 at 4:30 pm, Tony Award-winning television producer Amber Edwards and Mr Cruson discuss the upcoming tableaux vivants. This is one of the final major 300 anniversary events of Newtown’s Tercentennial. Four tableaux featuring scenes from Newtown’s history will be presented on October 1. A tableau vivant, a Victorian art form, is a living representation of a picture, statue, scene, by one or more persons suitably costumed and posed.