How did a kid from Weston, Connecticut end up teaching writing at a jail in Richmond, Virginia? How, why, and toward what end? The answer will be given as freely as the complementary light lunch!

David Coogan, who is a Westonite, has written an extraordinary book,Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs From Jail that chronicles the work he has been doing in the Richmond, Virginia correctional system. He is teaching inmates the power of memoir writing.