APR 2021 CONNECTIONS VOL. 9 NO. 4 A PASSION FOR WRITING “Wherever you don’t see yourself, As part of the NHWP, novice to experienced that is where you need to be.” — writers partake in writing labs where they share actor Moses Gunn their work, learn from their mistakes and hear positive feedback. “We are creating a literary This is the quote that guides the experience that is not just educational but New Hampshire Writers’ Project it is also from the soul, and most of all, it is Chair, Masheri Chappelle. affordable for everyone.” Masheri was born in Harlem and grew up in The New Hampshire Writers’ Project has South Bronx, New York. Her ticket out of her partnered with New Hampshire PBS and New neighborhood was a chance to take a test for Hampshire Humanities to organize an online academically gifted students. A winter storm event to celebrate the new Ken Burns film had coated the entire city in ice, and as Masheri HEMINGWAY. “Being a part of the HEMINGWAY recalls, she did everything she could to get there screening and discussion has brought the on time. “I put on three layers of pants and my New Hampshire Writers’ Project to a place best boots, and I slid all the way down Longwood where we’ve always wanted to be — a place to Avenue to get to the train station. And then I educate our communities on what it is to be a crawled on my hands and knees to be able to writer and to explore what it took for this man take that test.” to create his work. This is so needed — to be able to have a dialogue about being creative, Masheri is an accomplished author and about literature and about humanity. I think playwright and is now heading up the New this is what NHPBS does best, and the New Hampshire Writers’ Project (NHWP) on a Hampshire Writers’ Project is there to add the volunteer basis. This means she works into the literary aspect to it,” says Masheri. wee hours of the night and on weekends. Her energy is boundless. She believes her chance to The NHWP not only will take part in the have attended the ABC program at Guilford High screening and discussion, they’ve added a School in Connecticut and her four years at Smith few chapters to this project by hosting the College have all combined to put her where she HEMINGWAY WRITERS CHALLENGE. Ken Burns needs to be right now — creating programming himself made a call to writers to pen an essay and helping to cultivate authors. for the challenge, and NHWP is also hosting a virtual literary salon with NH author Robert The NHWP started in Portsmouth 30 years Wheeler, who will lead a discussion about ago and has found a tireless leader in Masheri. Hemingway’s Paris. She attended the monthly Writers Night Out meetings at a tavern and then a coffee shop. “I As Masheri sums it up, “This opportunity to meet couldn’t hear the conversation over the coffee other people and to have literary conversations, machine.” When Masheri became a volunteer, particularly on HEMINGWAY, is exactly what we she found a more permanent and quieter place dreamed of. It can’t get any better than this.” to meet. “When I saw NHWP’s home base, The Ford House, on SNHU Campus in Manchester, HEMINGWAY will premiere on April 5-7 starting I wanted to learn more. I wanted college level at 8pm on NHPBS. To learn more about NHWP, experiences. I wanted to talk about writing and go to nhwritersproject.org. share our pieces.” nhpbs.org | 603-868-1100 | [email protected] | nhpbs.org/donate NHPBS PRIMETIME PICKS Granite State Challenge My Grandparents War Atlantic Crossing SAT April 3 | 6 PM SUN April 4 | 8 PM on Masterpiece We’re back in the studio — safely. 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Hemingway Windows to the Wild: Hiking Greta Thunberg: MON-WED April 5-7 | 8 & 10 PM Back in Time with Tom Ryan A Year to Change the World Hemingway, a three-part, six-hour WED April 14 | 7:30 PM THU April 22 | 8 PM documentary film by Ken Burns and Host Willem Lange is off to Cape This three-part documentary series Lynn Novick, examines the visionary Cod with Kiki for a hike with follows teen environmental work and the turbulent life of bestselling author Tom Ryan. Along activist Greta Thunberg as she Ernest Hemingway — one of the the way, Tom takes Willem back in seeks to raise awareness of the greatest and most influential time to learn what led Willem from accelerating climate change and asks everyone to help slow it down. writers America has ever produced. the city to a life in the outdoors. 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Washington Auto Beatrix Farrand's American Great Performances Howards End On Masterpiece Howards End On Sat. 4/3 Road to the Sky Landscapes Masterpiece** American Experience* My Grandparents' War Atlantic Crossing On Masterpiece World On Fire On Sun. 4/4 Helena Bonham Carter Masterpiece** PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' Hemingway Hemingway Mon. 4/5 Europe PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' Hemingway Hemingway Tue. 4/6 Europe PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Windows to the Hemingway Hemingway Wed. 4/7 Wild PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' I Danced for the Angel of Death - Inside The Tower of London Thu.