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Join Fred for a Zoom program about his book Destiny. One man dreams about what might have been and the other envisions what might still be. Morris Kahn and Mendel Greenbaum have been friends for more years than either cares to remember. United by shuffleboard, a house they share with the women they love, and an abiding affection masked by constant bickering, they embark on a spur-of-the-moment road trip triggered by a yearning to see the ocean. When they arrive at the beach, their openness to chance encounters leads them to Destiny—a woman, a place, and an opportunity to reimagine the rest of their lives. The two men, facing the realities of aging as they approach their eighties, nevertheless revel with both exuberance and curiosity in what life offers them—friendship, the natural world, and fried clams.

Fred Sokol, in semi-retirement, writes novels and plays, including the novel Mendel and Morris and the scripted work The Forever Boys and The Lewis Sisters. His next work of fiction, Summer of ‘65 focuses upon four months in the life and times of a young woman, then eighteen, in 1965. Fred also continues to review professional theater in Connecticut and the Berkshires for talkinbroadway.com. He co-authored Muses in Arcadia: Cultural Life in the Berkshires. Fred enjoyed four decades as a community college and college professor—and directed 45 theater productions. He now teaches a small, lovely acting class through his local library. Fred and his wife, Betsy, live in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.