Oct 12, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
Sally Bernier, from the Richards Free Library, is here as we talk aboutthe Hale Award this weekend (and everything Sarah Hale), "spooky season", events coming up and more Library talk.
So the Hale Award, I know we've talked about this ad nauseum, but it's such an important literary award that's based here in Newport, but it's for all of New England.
The first, the very first winner of the Hale Award was Robert Frost, the poet.
So there are some big names on those posters that hang in the Hale Room in the library.
A name that you hear about here in Newport sometimes, I don't know how educated some people are on how important her legacy is, not just for Newport, for New Hampshire, New England, but really the country.
She was one of the people who was really pushing to get the Bunker Hill Monument finished.
And just to apply modern sensibility... back on the Victorian age, women, I'm gonna say this, this is gonna come out wrong, but you know what I mean.
So the Hale Award, I know we've talked about this ad nauseum, but it's such an important literary award that's based here in Newport, but it's for all of New England.
The first, the very first winner of the Hale Award was Robert Frost, the poet.
So there are some big names on those posters that hang in the Hale Room in the library.
A name that you hear about here in Newport sometimes, I don't know how educated some people are on how important her legacy is, not just for Newport, for New Hampshire, New England, but really the country.
She was one of the people who was really pushing to get the Bunker Hill Monument finished.
And just to apply modern sensibility... back on the Victorian age, women, I'm gonna say this, this is gonna come out wrong, but you know what I mean.
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