The Blue Hill Library and Blue Hill Books are cosponsoring an author talk with local author and retired commercial fisherman William 'Bill' Gerencer for his new book Working Waterfront:  A Fish Tale on Thursday, December 18 at 7PM in the library's Howard Room.

Bill Gerencer is a 45 year veteran of the New England Working Waterfront. He worked as a sternman, commercial fisherman, fishmonger, and oyster farmer. Bill also served on the New England Fisheries Management Council Groundfish Advisory Panel, the Office of Sustainable Fisheries Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel, the Trawl Survey Advisory Panel and as a director of the Portland Fish Exchange. He is currently retired and employed part-time at an oyster farm, works as a seafood consultant, and author.

This program is free and open to all, and will be held in the library's Howard Room. Copies of the book will be available for purchase from Blue Hill Books. For more information, please call the library at 374-5515 or email Assistant Director Kayleigh Thomas at kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net.