Ron Dube (Niger) Children’s book:The Small Dish

The Small Dish
by Ronald N. Dube (Niger 1964-66)
Mindstir Media
20 pages
Reading age: 4-12 years
$17.18 (Hardcover); $2.99 (Kindle)

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A small farm near the major city was once a teacher’s retreat. However, it remained neglected until a Vietnam veteran bought it as a refuge. After a few years, the veteran decided to sell the farm, but before the new owners could move in, he had to remove his possessions. During target practice, a small dish was lost.

Massachusetts teacher and former Nashua native Ron Dube (Niger 1964-66) shows his granddaughter Penelope, 4, a copy of his first children’s book, ‘The Small Dish.’

The book describes the story as an allegory about “existence, usefulness, loss, oblivion, resurrection, and back to existence and usefulness again.”

Ron is an octogenarian and always led with an adventurous spirit. Ron grew up in Nashua and earned an Eagle Scout Award and graduated from Nashua High School in 1960.

The University of New Hampshire graduate majored in science and minored in history/geography and ended up in Niger as a Peace Corps volunteer working on a reforestation project. He later returned for more study and picked up a master’s degree in biology from then-Rivier College in Nashua.

Ron also has ties to the Bay State having spent 25 years teaching science at Varnum Brook Middle School and later at Nissitissit Middle School in Pepperell.

Ron has now penned eight books with five of them published. “I like telling stories, both fact and fiction. I don’t write every day and then, maybe 30 minutes at a time. My next book is a sci-fi novel, Ammonite Ridge.”