WINTHROP — Melissa Coleman will discuss her new book, “This Life Is in Your Hands,” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Bailey Public Library.

In the fall of 1968, Melissa Coleman’s parents, Eliot and Sue — a handsome, idealistic young couple from well-to-do families — pack a few essentials into their VW bus and abandon the complications of modern existence to carve a farm from the woods. They move to a remote peninsula on the coast of Maine and become disciples of Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of the homesteading bible “Living the Good Life.” On 60 acres of sandy, intractable land they begin to forge a new existence, subsisting on the crops they grow and building a home with their own hands.

Melissa is a columnist for Maine and Maine Home and Design magazines and serves on the board of the Telling Room, a Portland writing center for kids. She lives in Freeport, with her husband and twin daughters.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the event through Apple Valley Books. The free discussion will begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 377-8673.

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