Janet Uren '68 launched a new book at Elmwood on Saturday, November 29, with a couple of hundred people in attendance. A resident of New Edinburgh since 2001, Janet has been working for 13 years now to collect stories of the village, telling of the multi-generational families that have lived there over time, the old houses that persist into the 21st century and the institutions that give shape to the community. The Villagers, some 400 pages in length, is chock-a-block with pictures and brims with stories of the past from the building of mills in the 1830s all the way to today's valiant work to help preserve the architecture and the village atmosphere that miraculously persists at the heart of a large modern city. Janet attended Elmwood in the 1960s, where she took her first few stabs at writing, and has since made her living as a professional writer with a special interest in local history. In 2015, she wrote "Endeavour's All," the story of Elmwood School, and in May 2026, the school will be staging her play, "Far From Home," telling the story of 23 young evacuees who fled to Elmwood from Britain in 1940, at the height of the Blitz.
The Villagers can be purchased at Books on Beechwood or at the link here.