Book Reading/Lecture: A FIELD OF MY OWN: A Memoir of Place

In A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place, lifelong creative and environmentalist McVay chronicles her intimate, two-decade relationship with a flagging orchard in the Hudson Valley. As a single working mother, she was looking for a weekend escape from New York City, a piece of green, a place to call her own. One blustery winter day, she falls in love with a meadow and her life is forever altered. This engaging memoir of place is generous and honest, packed with useful know-how and humor. An ode to the Hudson Valley, and something of a coming-of-middle-age story.