Wellesley Free Library
2024-08-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Wellesl, 530 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA, 02482, United States
Historian and photographer AgathaO (aka historian Pleun Bouricius) reads from her new collection of essays, Northern Byways and Other Essays From The Road, a travelogue exploring the landscape across the Northern United States and Canada, featuring a couple traveling and camping across both countries in their aging Toyota Tacoma. As one commentator put it, ”You learn a lot about how our world is made. AgathaO not only brings you along in the cab of their heap, squabbles and all, but casually pokes holes into the credibility of the scenery zipping by through the windshield.” The author will sign copies of this and her other books. All are welcome.
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AgathaO reads at the Abbot Public Library in Marblehead
2024-08-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Abbot Public Library, 235 Pleasant St, Marblehead, MA, 01945
Writer AgathaO (aka historian Pleun Bouricius) reads from her new collection of essays, Northern Byways and Other Essays From The Road, a travelogue exploring the landscape across the Northern United States and Canada, featuring a couple traveling and camping across both countries in their aging Toyota Tacoma. As one commentator put it, ”You learn a lot about how our world is made. AgathaO not only brings you along in the cab of their heap, squabbles and all, but casually pokes holes into the credibility of the scenery zipping by through the windshield.” The author will sign copies of this and her other books. All are welcome.
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Thomas Crane Public Library
2024-08-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington Street, Quincy, 02169, United States

2024 Fruitlands Craft Festival
2024-09-21 - 2024-09-22 | Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
AgathaO Photo will at the Fruitlands Museum for the 2024 Crafts Festival, with photography, books, cards, and more. The museum’s picturesque grounds, overlooking the Nashoba Valley and the New Hampshire mountains, will come alive with two festival tents featuring more than 50 juried New England Artisans. The show’s quality of craft, museum offerings, and stunning views has made the festival a popular September destination. It’s the perfect event for a fall outing to plan your holiday gifts for family and friends. They must like my work because I made the cover of the website with Light on Lily! 10-4 on Sept 21 and 22.
Admission to the Festival includes entry to Fruitlands Museum galleries, historic structures, exhibits, and trails. Children 12 and under get in free.
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Garlic and Arts Festival September 28 and 29
2024-09-28 - 2024-09-29 | Forsters Farm, 60 Chestnut Hill Road, Orange, MA, 01364
Join me at the fabulous Garlic and Arts Festival in Orange, MA. The AgathaO tent will be there with my new book, Northern Byways and Other Essays From The Road. It’s a short en entertaining course in learning how to see! With new photography, and of course cards. This is a festival with high community values and great arts and other products. It’s so fantastic that it stinks!
The “Festival that Stinks” is a fabulous family friendly destination held amid the fall foliage on a historic farm in Orange, MA. Wander among over 100 exhibitors with amazing art, farm-fresh products and food, healing arts, and community organizations. Three stages delight with music, performance, and spoken word. Travel the globe with glorious garlic cuisine and chef demos. Enjoy the free kids’ art-making tent and garlic games for all ages. Orange is the new green! Skill up with local living workshops, EVs on display, and only 2 bags of trash for 8,000 people. The tagline this year is Come and Get Your Love (and a great song by Redbone)– you’ll feel that sense of community and hope for a positive future at this festival! Inflation busting general admission is only $10 for the weekend; $5 for students, seniors, and Card to Culture: (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders), kids 12 and under are free. Save time, buy tickets online starting Sept 1. More information at http://www.garlicandarts.org/.

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Hilltown Open Studio Tour October 5 and 6, 2024
2024-10-05 - 2024-10-06 | MA
AgathaO will be part of the Hilltown Arts Alliance’s Hilltown Open Studio Tour. Experience some of New England’s best fall colors on ancient back roads, and visit artists who have made their homes and lives among the beauty of the hilltowns of Hampshire County. Find me at the tour “hub” at the Worthington Historical Society (6 Williamsburg Road– in the center of Worthington), hich features eight artists, a food truck, art demonstrations and live music. I’ll be there with my new book, Northern Byways and Other Essays From the Road as well as new photography, framed and unframed, and cards of course. Find me at the tour “Hub” at the Worthington Historical Society (6 Williamsburg Rd). For more information see https://hilltownartsalliance.org/open-studio-tour/. October 5 and 6, 11 am to 5 pm both days.
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Ashfield Fall Festival October 12-13
2024-10-12 - 2024-10-13 | Ashfield Town Common, Main Street, Ashfield, MA, 013390, United States
This year AgathaO Photo is returning to the Ashfield Fall Festival. I’ll be in the tent on the Common with my new book, Northern Byways and Other Essays From the Road, as well as new work, and of course cards! The Little Festival in the Hills has a big footprint, and it is lots of fun.! 10-5 both days. Free!
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42nd Annual Roseland Cottage Fine Arts & Crafts Festival
2024-10-19 - 2024-10-20 | Roseland Cottage, 556 Route 169, Woodstock, CT, 06281, United States
Find the AgathaO Photo tent with photography, prints, cards, books, and calendars at the Roseland Cottage., including my new book, Northern Byways and other Essays from the Road. This Fine Arts & Crafts Festival is one of the leading juried fine arts and crafts shows in New England. It features more than 150 local artisans and their work: jewelry, painting, printmaking, woodwork, pottery, clothing, metalwork, and much more! Enjoy live music and a food court. Free entrance to Historic New England members; ticket price $5.00). Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm.
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Craft Westport 2024
2024-11-02 - 2024-11-03 | Staples High School, 70 North Avenue, Westport, MA, 06880, United States
Join AgathaO at the Craft Westport holiday show in Westport CT, one of the best art/high craft shows of the Northeast and a great opportunity to obtain unique handmade holiday gifts. I will be there with prints and framed prints, books, gifts, and a few cards. And 175 other artists. Last year’s lineup. Saturday 10-6, Sunday 10-5. The admission fee includes parking and gets you in all weekend — kids get in for free.
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Greenfield Holiday Popup Market at the Pushkin Gallery in Greenfield December 6-8
2024-12-06 - 2024-12-08 | Pushkin Gallery, 4 Federal Street, Greenfield, MA, 01301
Join the AgathaO booth at the beautiful Pushkin Gallery in Greenfield. A good place for some holiday shopping and/or art appreciation. I’ll have my books ( wonderful gifts for nature lovers and armchair travelers) and lots of framed and unframed prints, and cards of course — suitable for holiday messages!
Friday December 6, 4-8
Saturday December 7, 11-6
Sunday December 8, 11-3

Free and open to all.

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AgathaO reads at the Northampton Senior Center on April 9, 2025
2025-04-09 13:30 - 15:00 | Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street, Northampton, MA, 01060
AgathaO (aka historian Pleun Bouricius) reads from her recent collection of essays, Northern Byways and Other Essays From The Road, a travelogue exploring the landscape across the Northern United States and Canada, featuring a couple traveling and camping across both countries in their aging Toyota Tacoma. As one commentator put it, ”You learn a lot about how our world is made. AgathaO not only brings you along in the cab of their heap, squabbles and all, but casually pokes holes into your faith in the credibility of the scenery zipping by through the windshield.” Let’s discuss what you really see when you travel around. The author will sign copies of this and her other books. All are welcome.
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AgathaO Reads at Leverett Public Library
2025-05-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Leverett public Library, 75 Montague Rd., Leverett, MA, 01054
Writer AgathaO (aka historian Pleun Bouricius) reads from her recent collection of essays, Northern Byways and Other Essays From The Road, a travelogue exploring the landscape across the Northern United States and Canada, featuring a couple traveling and camping across both countries in their aging Toyota Tacoma. As one commentator put it, ”You learn a lot about how our world is made. AgathaO not only brings you along in the cab of their heap, squabbles and all, but casually pokes holes into the credibility of the scenery zipping by through the windshield.” The author will sign copies of this and her other books. All are welcome.
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Eye Of The Beholder -- Exhibit at the Northampton Senior Center
2026-02-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street, Northampton, MA, 01060
Eye Of The Beholder will be up at the Northampton Senior Center Hallway Gallery for February and March, 2026. Get yourself a coffee at the cafe and check out the work! Reception Friday February 13, 5-7 pm. You can find the images in the galleries.
The show consists of nature-based abstracts. I have been wanting to do this since I went back to photography 11 years ago. Despite all evidence to the contrary, we think of photography as a medium for registering, witnessing, what “is.” But I am all about the eye of the beholder. That is, the camera is not doing the seeing, I am. The camera is a tool. My eye, my brain, my heart, my emotions make the image. I connect what I see to what I bring with me. I have manipulated my images from the day I first set foot in the darkroom, in 1982 or so, and I continue to do so. That’s not the same as using artificial intelligence to make images. At this time I don’t use AI for photography, though that is also just a tool. What you see here is photography that has been digitally manipulated, not digital art.
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