Mary Kellogg reads poems from her forthcoming book “Whistling Woman.” Izzy watches.

  There is no lovelier or more atmospheric place for a book reading than Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, N.Y. It’s an old refurbished opera house, the site of  plays and readings in a small but classy upstate New York town. There was a great crowd full of good questions. People asked me why I needed to sell the farm to concentrate on my writing, how I think dogs think, where my idea for the novel “Rose In A Storm” came from, how I defined souls. It was a great night, although I am itchy to get back to the Washington County Fair – not till Thursday, probably.
 Tomorrow night I talk and read at the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, N.Y., at 7 p.m.