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Blackbird & Beyond
Join us at Ocean Edge Resort's historic Carriage House for Blackbird & Beyond — a moving evening of conversation, connection, and healing.
On Sunday, August 17, 2025, bestselling authors Betsy Stephenson and John Kenney will come together to explore themes of grief, love, and resilience through personal stories and candid dialogue. Following this conversation, internationally renowned medium Maureen Hancock will share messages from beyond with a live audience demonstration of her gift.
Event Details:
Sunday, August 17, 2025
At The Carriage House, Ocean Edge Resort & Golf Club
2907 Main Street, Brewster, Cape Cod, MA
Program:
- 6:30 PM Reception
- 7:00 PM Conversations with Betsy Stephenson and John Kenney
- Brief intermission
- 8:00 PM Maureen Hancock, Postcards from Heaven
Your Ticket Includes:
- Admission to the full evening’s events
- A signed copy of Blackbird by Betsy Stephenson (provided by Brewster Book Store)
- Light refreshments during the reception
- Tickets: $75 per person
- Limited to 120 guests
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About Betsy Thibaut StephensonBetsy Thibaut Stephenson lost her son to suicide and in her memoir Blackbird, Betsy explores the emotional, physical, and spiritual impact of deep despair. Betsy composed Blackbird while residing in the darkest corners of grief, not after years of healing and perspective. In interviews and discussions, Betsy hopes her ability to ‘speak from the wound, not from the scar’ will spark important conversations about mental health, grief resilience, and creating a path toward healing. She has appeared on CNN, NPR, local television and radio, and health and wellbeing podcasts. Betsy lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and Labrador retrievers. When she isn’t visiting her grown daughters in North Carolina and South Carolina, she is helping her public affairs clients tell their stories to policymakers and the media. Blackbird is her first book. |
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About John KenneyJohn Kenney is the author of three novels and four books of poetry. His first novel, Truth In Advertising, won the Thurber Prize for American humor. Love Poems For Married People was a New York Times bestseller. His recent novel I See You’ve Called In Dead was an instant USAToday bestseller. He is a long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine’s Shouts & Murmurs. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. He lives with his wife, Lissa, a clinical social worker and internationally ranked squash player, and their two children, whose names escape him at the moment. |
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About Maureen HancockMaureen Hancock is an internationally renowned Spirit Medium, intuitive, teacher, lecturer, Holistic Healer, and author of the bestselling book, The Medium Next Door: Adventures of a Real-Life Ghost Whisperer. She has appeared on CNN, Gaia Network, Associated Press, VH1, Martha Stewart Living magazine & radio, The Boston Globe, Coast-to-Coast radio, WROR with Loren & Wally, several Town Square Media radio stations across the country (FUN107 locally), ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX Television programs all over the country. Maureen has spent decades demystifying the overwhelming subject matter of death, and helping individuals to flex their intuitive muscle, and tap into messages from spirit. Maureen’s work has brought comfort, hope and healing to the masses. |