Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau

Jane Keddy is a printmaker and textile artist who has lived on Cape Ann for 35 years. She is a member of Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck where she shows her prints and hand-painted and dyed silk scarves. Her memoir, Serial Monogamy, tells the story of Keddy’s search for the perfect mate and nuclear family. She outlines relationships along the way with intimate detail and poignant humor. The book is interspersed with journal entries and Keddy’s silk screen art, inspired by events in her life.

Barbara Boudreau’s love of music and nature have guided her through life. With a background in nature and conservation, interwoven with music, she traveled throughout the world and lived for six years in Hiroshima, Japan. She settled in Gloucester with her jazz drummer and sailor husband, Al. Together, they keep America’s original art form alive. She is a state regional interpretive coordinator, and a Certified Interpretive Guide, interpreting natural, cultural and historic resources of Massachusetts. Boudreau’s novels, The Frenchman and Death of the Frenchman (currently in the publication process), are both page-turning capers that tell the story of Jean LaChance, an infamous talented thief who meets his match in the bleak California desert in the form of a young mother and her three children.