Award-winning columnist and author Lew-Ellyn Hughes will give a talk at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 16, at Brown Memorial Library, 53 Railroad St., Clinton, according to a news release from the library.

Lew-Ellyn Hughes Photo courtesy of Brown Memorial Library

Her books include “Maine Stories,” “Diamonds from the Corner” and “A View from the Corner.”

As a storyteller, Hughes writes about love, parenting, grand-parenting, aging and family (not only being why you are, but why you are the way you are).

According to the release, Hugh’s love of words and love of history along with her ability to pick out a single fleck of gold from the vast river of moments that flow through a day, she creates humorous, often poignant or insightful stories about Maine and its people.

For more information, call  Cheri Dickey-Whitish, director, Brown Memorial Library, at 426-8686.