About We Part To Meet Again

On the heels of the 1960s, an array of creatives follow Timothy Leary's call to tune in, turn on, and drop out. Among them, a young photographer finds a new life in a Berkshire artists' community.

Josie Miller, a determined, native New Yorker packs her cameras and travels to rural Massachusetts, where she encounters Monarch butterflies, chanterelle mushrooms, and mescaline.

We Part To Meet Again takes place at the historic Cummington Community of the Arts. Founded in 1923, it offered inspiration and fellowship to painters, writers, musicians, poets and photographers for 70 years — including Willem de Kooning, Marianne Moore, Diane Arbus, Helen Frankenthaler, Alan Gurganus, Jean Valentine and Archibald Macleish — among its illustrious alumni.

“I could barely put the book down. It clocks in at just over 200 pages, the perfect length for a beach or poolside read with a little more substance.”

— Rachael Flora, Founding Editor - The Savannahian

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your novel. Great characters and such a wonderful sense of place! It was really a delight to get a sense of what our neighborhood was like back in the days of the Community of the Arts. I am going to share the book with the current and past owners of Vaughan House and I have no doubt they will enjoy it as much as I did.

— Beckie Kravetz, sculptor and current resident of Potash Hill Road.