Fritz Wetherbee at Innisfree Bookshop on Sunday

MEREDITH — Fritz Wetherbee will be at Innisfree Bookshop from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, December 11 to tell stories, answer questions, sign books, and talk about his life growing up in New Hampshire.

His seventh book, New Hampshire Rocks, a collection of stories he has written for WMUR-TV’s New Hampshire Chronicle, has just been released.

"With this latest book I will have published 850 stories about New Hampshire,” says Wetherbee. "Two more books and I’ll have over a thousand stories."

Wetherbee calls himself a "proud provincial", who has spent almost all his life in the Granite State, Born in 1936, he grew up in Milford the oldest of five children. Over the years he has worked at everything from tree climbing to being the creative director in an ad agency.

For ten years he was the host of New Hampshire Crossroads on New Hampshire Public Television. For the past eight years he has written and presented a different nightly story on New Hampshire Chronicle.

He lives with his "better half"', Laura, in a 216-year-old home in Acworth. On his library shelves are dozens of state books plus five Emmys and a bobble-head doll which he was honored with for throwing out the first pitch at a Fisher Cats Game a couple years back.