The Spring Forward Crawl for Culture, Enlightenment and the Search for the Almighty Beer Bubble

It was a night like no other in the tiny burg of Freddie Beach, home of the Dead in Denial and Last frontier of the Anti-Bikini Brigade. It was a Friday night. It was a night of sound weather and sunny beginnings. It was the night of the Spring Forward Reading Crawl through the innards of downtown Freddie Beach.

It started at Westminister Books with readings by Mark Jarman, Karen Soltie, and Whitefeather. It crawled belly to the sidewalk to Read's Newstand to hear the wailing of Jesse Ferguson, Matt Leslie and Biff Mitchell. Then, it twitched and turned past storefronts and traffic to That Place That Used To Be The Taproom But Is Now Named Something Else for ramblings and rantings from Eric Hill, Katie Brown, John Heinstein, Matte Robinson, and Andrew Titus.

There was music and beer, great poetry and great prose, music from Matte and Kora of VETCH ... with an impromptu harmonica jam with Mark Jarman. And it was all for a good cause ... to promote the Maritime Writers' Workshop and Literary Festival.

And to give birth to The Blacktop Motorcycle Gang.

Stay tuned.