Please join us at the CCLC this Friday evening, September 13 at 7:00 p.m. for a reading by Award Winning Maine Author Elizabeth Peavey.

Losing a parent is difficult enough. Losing your final parent presents an additional challenge: What are you supposed to do with all your family’s stuff? Join celebrated Maine author Elizabeth Peavey at the Cobscook Community Learning Center on Friday,  September 13, 7:00 p.m., as she confronts this question in a selection of readings from her hilarious and heartbreaking one-woman show, My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother, which won the 2013 Maine Literary Award for Drama. For months, Peavey avoided wading through her late mother’s things. But when her mom’s condo sells, she’s forced to reckon with its contents. As she does, objects surface, triggering memories and emotions. Possessions she once thought would be easy to chuck – the Polynesian hors d’oeuvre platter, the milk-glass and tea-cup collections, the Colonial decorative scoop – suddenly take on epic stature, forcing the question: How do we know when to let go?

Elizabeth Peavey has been a humor columnist since 1995. Her first regular column, “Outta My Way,” ran in the Portland alternative weekly, Casco Bay Weekly until the paper’s demise in 2001. After a two-year hiatus, she took up again with another column, “Outta My Yard” (same carping, but from a suburban setting), for The Bollard, another Portland-based periodical. Her writing is frequently featured in Down East magazine (among other publications), where she has been a contributing editor since 1997. She authored the Maine chapter of “Fodor’s Road Guide U.S.A.” (Random House) and appears in the anthology “Forty Things To Do When You Turn Forty” (Sellers Publishing).

Admission for this show is by donation. The Cobscook Community Learning Center is located at 10 Commissary Point Road, Trescott. For directions or information, call 207-733-2233 or visit www.cclc.me.