Local Richmond Town Historian and author, Joy Lewis, has recently edited a book written by Jack Evans on his boyhood days in Hemlock.  On August 20th, 6:30pm, Joy will launch the book with a presentation at Little Finger Lakes Center, Hemlock.  The talk will go over where the stories came from, a short bio of Jack Evans and his family as well as a quick look at Hemlock of the 1920s/30s. Joy will read a few story excerpts along with comments and explanations. 

Jack Evans, born in 1918, grew up in the idyllic hamlet of Hemlock, New York.  An only child, he lived with his parents and maternal grandparents in a house on Main Street. His was a charming childhood and an adventurous adolescence, remembered with affection all his life. In his seventies Jack sat down to write his memories. He deeply appreciated the experience of growing up in a small town, where he knew most of his neighbors and had many friends among his schoolmates.  Jack’s voice comes through loud and clear in these collected sketches: the boy he was in the nineteen-twenties and thirties, the little village where he spent his childhood, the everyday workings of the railroad; all these episodes are vividly and touchingly portrayed.