GREENWOOD — The recently published book “Addison Verrill’s Greenwood: Memories of a Maine Town and One of its Most Notable Natives” will be the focus of a special program at the Norway Historical Society at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18.

Author Addison Verrill will give a short talk about the work, as will Herbert Adams and Larry Glatz, who compiled and edited the book.

Verrill was born on Patch Mountain in Greenwood City in 1839. He was a student at the Norway Liberal Institute, studied at Harvard, and went on to become a renowned zoologist and professor of zoology at Yale University.

The fictional character Addison in the stories of the Old Squires Farm was based on Addison himself, who was a cousin of author C.A. Stephens.

The book, published jointly by the Bethel Historical Society and the Greenwood Historical Society on the bicentennial of Greenwood’s incorporation as a town in 1816, includes a biography of Verrill and a short history of the town of Greenwood. It also includes the series of 28 newspaper articles of Verrill’s personal recollections of Greenwood in the 1840s, originally published in the Oxford County Advertiser from 1914-15.

Herbert Adams is a professor of social science and history at Southern Maine Community College and a former resident of Norway. Larry Glatz is a former educator and data systems administrator, and a frequent author and speaker on topics relating to the history and culture of western Maine.

The program will be held in the meeting room at the Norway Historical Society, 471 Main St., Norway. The public is invited.