Peter Almond is a documentary and narrative filmmaker and writer. He works on public issues as a journalist and in public policy on both US and international projects. At the MOL he is working on a drama set at the lead up to the Civil War when Frederick Douglass abandons hope of a moral/political solution to ending slavery, and concludes that war is the only way to resolve the crisis and to end the nation’s embrace of inequality. These themes figure through Almond’s background in community organizing and policy around community control, initiatives framed by power to communities suffering injustice.
Greg Gibson is the author of three books of non-fiction: Gone Boy: A Walkabout – an investigation into the random murder of his 18 year old son Galan at a small New England college. Demon of the Waters – the true story of the Mutiny of the Whaleship Globe, and Hubert’s Freaks which tells the tale of gifted but troubled book dealer who finds a stash of unknown DeeAnn Arbus photos that propels him into battle with the art world. Greg also has a crime novel called, The Old Turk’s Load. He was a founding board member of The Gloucester Writers Center and sits on the steering committee of this library.