The Tattler’s Almanac by Don Bliss

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As seasons march ever onward, stories of love, tragedy, loss, heroism and faith transcend from private lives to public knowledge through every small town.

A man seeks to rediscover his lost boyhood. The church’s anniversary causes civil strife.  Hundreds are stranded in a fierce blizzard.  A woman rediscovered the bounty of the earth.  The community pauses to remember fallen heroes. A married couple make a very special delivery. Long ago lovers are reunited. A boy discovers that the world is far more dangerous than he realizes. A farmer strives to grow a record breaking pumpkin. An ugly secret from the distant past is revealed . A young waitress has an epiphany. The town experiences more than mischief on ‘Cabbage Night’. A teenaged boy and girl have a change of heart. Someone’s going down at the Christmas Eve service.  Unexplained phenomena occur at the edge of town. A teach throws caution to the wind. A baseball player makes it in the big show.

Spend a few seasons in Hilltown where the folks are friendly, the trees have ears, and prattle is never out of season.

In  Drawing upon his childhood where he looks fondly back at his boyhood years in the Berkshires in well-told stories that abound with humor and whimsy, are touching and memorable and make you think of Saturday Even Post and another mythical town Lake Woebegone.

Don Bliss is a writer, actor, director and pastor of a Congregational church in southeastern Massachusetts.  Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater listeners will recognize him from roles he played in The Case of the Calico Lobster, The Junebug Mystery,  The Case of the Sleeping Policeman and others.

Don Bliss acting a scene with Dave Ellsworth in the Captain Underhill mystery ‘The Case of the Calico Lobster’.

Steven Oney comments,  “I am so fortunate to have gotten to know Don.  Not only for the fine performances he’s turned in, appearing in numerous episodes of Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater but also for the privilege of just being in his company and enjoying the warmth and depth of his person.  –Well reflected in The Tattler’s Almanac.