Local Author Mary Burns @ Main Library

Please join us for a reading by Sussex County’s own Mary Burns*. Ms. Burns will read from  her book Saving Eric, winner of the 2023 International Firebird Award. The book is about her son, who suffered from mental and physical illness, along with drug addiction. The reading will be followed by a Q&A period on the subject of addiction.

Registration begins September 2.

*Mary Burns is a mother of three, a teacher, and has become involved in addiction advocacy since her son’s death. She helped spearhead a walk called Changing the Face of Addiction, to help change the stigma of addiction. She has also brought her advocacy to her local state senator and addressed the New Jersey Senate Budget Appropriations Committee about the need for a change to the addiction treatment protocol. She was honored as an Advocacy Leader in 2017 by the New Jersey chapter of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.