March 1, 2011, Tuesday - Reading: An Evening in the Boundary Waters at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

An evening in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness—at Open Book. Four authors will read from recently published books or works in progress:

Greg Breining writes about travel, science and nature for the New York Times, Audubon and other publications. He will read from his new book of essays (with photographs by Layne Kennedy) Paddle North: Canoeing the Boundary Waters-Quetico Wilderness.

Betty Vos Hemstad, nature photographer, community volunteer and summer resident on the Gunflint Trail for 35 years will present from her book Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking Through the Seasons.

Joe Paddock is an award-winning poet and an environmental writer. In midlife he spent much of a six-year period living in a cabin on Minnesota's wild Kettle River. He is the principal author of the Sierra Club book Soil and Survival, and the author of Keeper of the Wild, the biography of Ernest Oberholtzer, the central early figure in the preservation of the boundary lakes region between Minnesota and Ontario. Paddock will read selections from this book that provide insight into that early struggle.

Stephen Wilbers, author of several books on effective writing and a chapbook of poems about wilderness advocate Ernest Oberholtzer, will read from his work in progress, a book based on his nearly 30 years of canoeing with his father, Canoeing Across Time: A Boundary Waters History, to be published this spring by The History Press.