The poetry of place and the hum of domestic life and all of its associations—family, food and home—are what inspire my writing. I try to live by the words of Emily Webb in the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder: “Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?” Writing, like a photograph or experiencing an old building from another era, is a way of capturing a moment in time—a way to blend past and present for the future.
“Unlike the sterile Victorian workrooms and their even smaller successors, today’s kitchen—whether large or small—is the deliberate center of the American home…According to a 2005 National Association of Home Builders survey, walk-in pantries are the most requested feature in kitchens today. Perhaps it is the popular return of home cooking and baking. Perhaps it stems from the 1990s trend of nesting and stockpiling for the ‘new millennium,’ world disaster, or a cozy blizzard. Perhaps it is because a good pantry makes sense.”
From The Pantry—Its History and Modern Uses
by Catherine Seiberling Pond
Gibbs Smith, Publisher—2007
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm -- Catherine will be at the 2007 Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort Convention Center, Frankfort, Kentucky, site of the 26th Kentucky Book Fair. For more information: Kentucky Book Fair
RECENT EVENTS
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September 25, 2007 -- Catherine spoke on "The Victorian Pantry" at a lecture jointly sponsored by The Gibson Society and The Victorian Society in America/New England Chapter at Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116. For more information: Gibson House Museum, or Victorian Society/NE Chapter.
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July 21, 2007 -- Catherine spoke about The Pantry at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Jaffrey Center Village Improvement Society at Melville Academy, Jaffrey, New Hampshire. For more information: www.jcvis.org
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June 23, 2007 -- Catherine was at a book-signing of The Pantry at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
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May 19, 2007 -- Catherine spoke about The Pantry at the Friends of the Dublin Library, Dublin, New Hampshire.
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April 21-22, 2007 -- Catherine was a featured writer at Kentucky Writer’s Day at Penn’s Store in Gravel Switch, Kentucky, where she read from The Pantry—Its History and Modern Uses.
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