Penturen Church and the Beltrami Island Resettlement Project
Indian land given to Polish homesteaders not suitable for agriculture
On Lake of the Woods
Join me for a weekly glimpse into the history of this place where my great-grandparents homesteaded on Ojibway land near Lake of the Woods on the Canadian border.
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Laurie Hertzel, Lawrence U, Living Now Book Award
Last Tuesday evening, Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Uptown Minneapolis hosted a conversation between Laurie Hertzel and me about The Land of Everlasting Sky: A Memoir of Loss and Legacy on Lake of the Woods.
An extraordinary gift from Don Kakaygeesick
Last month when I visited northern Minnesota, Don Kakaygeesick gave me this magnificent original watercolor painting of his.
The book club that buoyed my Lake of the Woods book tour
When I returned to Warroad in 2014 after my mother’s funeral, novelist Kim Hruba (Elevator Girl) introduced herself and we met at Caribou Coffee to talk books.
Road tripping across northern Minnesota
Go north, cool off, be present
Making the Kirkus Indies Award short list, Lake of the Woods book tour highlights, and Wham! Bam! Book! Slam!
This past Tuesday, Kirkus revealed the list of finalists for the inaugural Kirkus Indie Awards to “celebrate the excellence, breadth, and depth of independently published books.”
Every kid gets two nickels
on the Fourth of July in Warroad
Lake of the Woods Book Tour: July 8-18
Moorhead is the first stop on my book tour across northern Minnesota.
Eddy Cobiness (1933-1996): Artist of the Woodlands School
Original member of the Indian Group of Seven
Magical Moments on Book Tour
and meeting Substackers in person