Authors' Series features Marjorie Speed

Maritime author Marjorie Speed will read from her popular children's book, "Alexander's Sky-blue Eggs" (Roseway Publishing, 1995), at a free, public event at Haliburton House Museum in Windsor on Sunday, Sept. 5. from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The book follows the story of Alexander, a character based on the author's son. Illustrated with Ms. Speed's own paintings, the work portrays a Nova Scotia springtime and one little boy's discovery of some very interesting eggs.

In addition to being a writer and illustrator of books for children, Ms. Speed is a watercolour artist, mother, teacher, and musician. She is the second of four Nova Scotia authors to be presented in the Authors Encore! series at the museum.

Haliburton House Museum, a part of the Nova Scotia Museum, was once the home of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a gifted Nova Scotian author in the first half of the 1800s. Haliburton was the author of one of the first history books about the province and was celebrated internationally for many of his works, including "The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville", the book that featured the fictional Yankee clock peddler, Sam Slick.