Townie Tuesday by Gillian Swart: Ghlee Woodworth
Posted by Kim Gobbi on Tue, Oct 13, 2009 @ 09:00 AM
Newburyport Today has profiled Ghlee Woodworth once already, but we think she deserves another go because she's a busy bee this week and the event is important.
Not only will she be signing her book, "Tiptoe through the Tombstones: Volume I", on Friday and Saturday, she will be conducting two special tours in town and it’s all part of the Senzeni Na Volunteer Opportunities and Poverty Awareness Fair being held this weekend.
The name of the fair is derived from the Zulu phrase meaning, What have we done? It is hosted by the Social Action Committee of the First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist, Belleville Congregational Church, Pennies for Poverty: 2 Cents 4 Change, Inc., and the Poverty Program.
"It’s going to be a great fair," says Catherine Yesair Gould of Pennies for Poverty, who is a Byfield native and is married to a native, Robert Gould. "We've got the Jelly Bean Mystery Auction, the Community Choir coming from Boston and 28 tables by local (non-profit) organizations it’s going to be a great time."
Among the people in her book are those who held the first fundraiser to help build a local hospital and people in whose name the philanthropy continues to this day. Mary Alice Arakelian would be one such subject of the short biographies she has assembled of in total about 80 people who made a difference in Newburyport, in many different ways.
Woodworth will be signing her book along with Fran Larkin, author of "5 Words and Then Some: How to Succeed in This Big Game We Call Life", from 12-4 on Friday and on Saturday from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Pleasant Street.
Ghlee's book is sold only through her, so if you miss her thi weeekend and want a copy, pleae contact her directly. The cost is $35.00
tiptoethroughtheotmbstones@yahoo.com
or 978 462-2010.
Newburyport native Kathy Heywood will also be giving a presentation on the power of music to create social change.
On Friday, Oct. 16, from 4-5:30 p.m., Woodworth will meet interested people at Oak Hill Cemetery as she gives a tour to highlight Newburyport Activists and Benefactors buried there.
On Saturday, Oct. 17, from 3-4:30 p.m., she has a walking tour called "African Americans in Newburyport: 1800s" The tour starts at Brown Square (across from City Hall).
"I found 10 to 12 graves of African Americans in Highland (Cemetery), from the early 1800s," Woodworth says.
For a full schedule of events and locations, click here.