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For 31 years, Buttonwood Books and Toys has been a mainstay in Cohasset.
Kathy Detwiler, Buttonwood’s owner, says that the store takes its identity as an independent library very seriously.
Part of that identity is becoming immersed in the surrounding community, something Detwiler does by connecting with writers who live on and write about the South Shore.
“Our goal was always to be sort of this business rooted in the community,” Detwiler said. “We have really tried to stand by that in a lot of different venues, and part of that is supporting local authors.”
On Saturday, June 12, Buttonwood will do just that, with Local Authors Signing Day.
Cohasset author sheds light on forgotten suffragette in new novel
COHASSET When thinking of women’s suffrage, the names Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton immediately come to mind.
But there is one name that has been muted over the course of time that you may be less familiar with.
That would be the Bay State’s own Lucy Stone.
An early champion for both racial and gender equality, Stone has not received the adulation that Anthony and Cady Stanton have, though she was no less important to those movements in the country.
Now, thanks to the work of one Cohasset author, Stone’s story will be told.
Buttonwood Books to host local author
COURTESY OF BUTTONWOOD BOOKS AND TOYS
Buttonwood Books and Toys, 747 Chief Justice Cushing Highway, Coahsset, will host local author Katherine A. Sherbrooke from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. May 4 to sign her new book, “Leaving Coy’s Hill.”
The story is based on the life of pioneering feminist and abolitionist Lucy Stone. Twenty randomly selected,preordered books will include a ticket to an informal private zoom event with Sherbrooke.
Sherbrooke is also the author of “Fill the Sky” and a family memoir, “Finding Home.” She is an alumna of Dartmouth College and Stanford Business School.