Looking Ahead:
This Weekend at the Milford Festival

Sixty-four years ago, science fiction writers Virginia Kidd and James Blish moved to Milford, PA, into a home that they called Arrowhead. It was there that Virginia Kidd founded the first literary agency devoted to the sf genre and where James Blish and colleagues such as Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm wrote stories that helped define modern sf.

Given Arrowhead’s proximity (less than a six-hour drive from my home) and the fact that that The Kidd Agency has been representing me for the past 17 years, I’m surprised I’ve yet to make a pilgrimage to Milford.

This weekend, that’s going to change.

Thanks to a generous invitation by the organizers of the science-fiction track of the Milford Readers and Writers Festival, I’ll be kicking off this weekend by attending a private reception at Arrowhead on Friday afternoon. After that, I’m scheduled to take part in reading, storytelling, and panel events that will culminate with a science fiction panel hosted by Gordon Van Gelder in the Milford Theatre on Sunday.

You can get an overview of the entire event at my previous posts here and here, and I anticipate having a full recap of the event posted at this site sometime next week. For now, heane’s a overview of where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing while there.

Friday

• Noon – 4:00 pm: Private Reception – Virginia Kidd Agency at Arrowhead

Saturday

• 12:20 pm -12:55 pm: Pop Up Bookstore Reading & Book Signing – Festival Tent at the Hotel Fauchere
• 08:00 pm -10:00 pm: Science Fiction Readings & Beer – Dimmick Hotel
• 10:00 pm – Midnight: RAW After Dark Storytelling – Bar Louis at the Hotel Fauchere

Sunday

• 10:00 am -1:00 pm: Science Fiction Panel – Milford Theatre

If you love science fiction and you’re anywhere in the New York Metro Area this weekend, I’ll hope to see you at the Milford Festival. Until then … scop on!

Images:
Arrowhead, Long Ago. vk-agency.com.
Milford Theatre Marquee.