Book signing with Betty Vos Hemstad, author of Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters
Book World - Willmar, Willmar MN
Dates: Nov. 21, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Fee: Free
Join Betty Vos Hemstad for a signing of her book Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking Through the Seasons.
Travelers in the Boundary Waters find much to draw the eye, not least of which is a profusion of wildflowers at every turn. For the unstudied hiker, what better way to meet these plants than with a friend to guide your vision and understanding? The author’s unique collection of stunning, full-color photographs, taken over a twenty-year span, offers views of 120 regional flowers shown throughout their life cycles. This guide is organized by season and then by color. The author’s practical and personable descriptions spotlight each plant’s features and offer tidbits about common names, historic uses, and favorite locations.
Longtime nature photographer and BWCA community organizer, Betty Vos Hemstad spends her summers on the Gunflint Trail in northern Minnesota.
For more information call 320-214-0555.
Book signing with Mitch Omer, author of Damn Good Food
Costco, St. Louis Park MN
Dates: Nov. 21, 2009
Time: Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Fee: Costco membership
Join Mitch Omer for a book signing of his new book Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes from Hell’s Kitchen.
The author reveals the recipes that have made his restaurant a pleasure seeker’s destination, including inventions like his tart, ethereal Lemon-Ricotta Hotcakes, dark, wild Bison Sausage Bread; and sweet, creamy Mahnomin Porridge. There are recipes inspired by places and people, including the author’s own close-knit family, reworked and made his own. His dad’s caramel rolls and coleslaw, locally raised-bison burgers smeared with his mom’s mustard, and his own famous homemade peanut butter. These dishes have the hungry and eager queued up out the doors of Hell’s Kitchen, often for hours, and now you can make them at home.
Mitch Omer is the chef-owner of Hell’s Kitchen in Minneapolis and Duluth.
For more information call the store at 763-582-9602 or 9603.
Talk and signing with Michael Norman, author of The Nearly Departed
Rochester Public Library, Rochester MN
Dates: Nov. 22, 2009
Time: 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Fee: Free
Just in time for Halloween - join Michael Norman for a book signing of his new book The Nearly Departed: Minnesota Ghost Stories and Legends.
Everyone loves a good ghost story. They have existed as long as humans have been telling tales. Perhaps they rise from our curiosity about what happens to us and our loved ones after death, perhaps they explain phenomena that we do not understand, or maybe, just maybe, the dead do walk the earth.
The author does not attempt to prove or disprove the existence of ghosts but instead allows readers to make up their minds. His tales feature people’s strange and paranormal experiences in quite ordinary places, including homes, theaters, B-and-B’s, and restaurants. He has uncovered almost three dozen stories of legitimate Minnesota eeriness to thrill readers. He interviewed local storytellers and combed newspapers to document legends involving supernatural and strange occurrences. Following old and fresh leads, he gathered stories from all over the state. Beware: these stories do not have conclusive endings, since they remain mysteries to this day. But perhaps that’s best. An ending would just take the fun out of it.
Michael Norman is a retired associate professor of journalism and mass communications at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He has assembled and co-written five collections of American ghost stories, including Haunted Wisconsin, Haunted Heartland, and Historic Haunted America.
This event is part of the Yaggy Colby lecture series sponsored by the Olmsted County Historical Society. For more information call 507-285-8000.
Book signing with Peg Meier, author of Bring Warm Clothes & Too Hot, Went to Lake
Coon Rapids Senior Center, Coon Rapids MN
Dates: Dec. 2, 2009
Time: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Fee: Free
Join Peg Meier for a signing of her new reissued books Too Hot, Went to Lake: Seasonal Photos from Minnesota’s Past and Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past.
Boys with a sprinkler, nuns at a ball game, proud hunters with their quarry – this collection of more than three hundred pictures dating from the earliest cameras to the mid-twentieth century offers a trip back in time in Too Hot, Went to Lake. The author shares excerpts collected from diaries and letters that allow Minnesotans of ages past to comment on pine tree vistas, harvest bounty, and the weather, always the weather.
Bring Warm Clothes is a celebration of everyday lives of Minnesotans through the centuries-those who paused here on their way to someplace else, and those who made the state their home. The stories and more emerge from select diary and journal entries, from published accounts and business records- the experiences of ordinary Minnesotans. Matched with drawings and photographs that capture a way of life at a particular moment, these impressions offer a telling history of the state in the words of its people.
Peg Meier is an award-winning former reporter for the Star Tribune. She is the author of Coffee Made Her Insane and The Last of the Tearoom Ladies.
For more information call 763-767-6518.
Booksigning: Peg Meier, 'Bring Warm Clothes' and 'Too Hot, Went to the Lake'
Minnesota History Center, St. Paul MN
Dates: Dec. 3, 2009
Time: 1 to 2 p.m.
Fee: Free
Peg Meier, former Star Tribune writer and author of "Bring Warm Clothes" and "Too Hot, Went to the Lake," will be on hand to meet visitors and sign copies of her books, recently reissued in new editions by MHS Press. The event is held in conjunction with Members Double Discount Shopping Days.
Reading and signing with Kevin Kling, author of Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn
Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis MN
Dates: Dec. 3, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Fee: Free
Join Kevin Kling for a reading and signing of his new book Kevin Kling’s Holiday Inn.
The book is a romp through a yearful of holidays and a life-time of gathering material. A wiener dog with an amazing capacity for destruction impresses the whole family and contributes to their collection of favorite disastrous Christmas stories. A Choctaw and a nun go trick-or-treating on Halloween. A boy makes a frightening decision every year when he chooses which classmate gets the “Be Mine” Valentine. Kevin takes his mom to a Fourth of July demolition derby-and then he takes an epic trip around the bases at a ball game on Memorial Day. From tomfoolery with his brother in the backseat of their dad’s car through his carefully considered instructions for ice fishing, Kling never loses the spirit of his story or holds back on its humor.
Kevin Kling is a well-known playwright and storyteller, and his commentaries can be heard on public radio. His plays and adaptations have been performed around the world. He is the author of The Dog Says How. He lives in Minneapolis.
For more information call 612-822-4611.
Booksigning with Layne Kennedy
St. Olaf College Bookstore, Northfield MN
Dates: Dec. 3, 2009
Time: 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Fee: Free
Join photographer Layne Kennedy and author Greg Breining for a signing of their book A Hard-Water World:Ice Fishing and Why We Do It.
Striking storytelling photographs and engaging essays capture the quirky world of ice fishing-its natural beauty and solitary subzero vigils, along with its oddball practices and practitioners. They take you to fun-filled if bizarre festivals that include Door County WI and to Leech Lake in Minnesota. Travel to a frozen lake in the Boundary Waters, to ice cities that form and disband overnight, and to the Volga River near Moscow, shadowed by the KGB.
Layne Kennedy’s photographs have been published in National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated, Life, Newsweek, Smithsonian, and other magazines. Greg Breining writes frequently about the outdoors for national magazines and newspapers.
For more information call 507-786-3048.
Booksigning: Michael Norman, 'The Nearly Departed: Minnesota Ghost Stories and Legends'
Minnesota History Center, St. Paul MN
Dates: Dec. 4, 2009
Time: Noon to 1 p.m.
Fee: Free
Author Michael Norman will meet visitors and sign copies of "The Nearly Departed: Minnesota Ghost Stories and Legends," recently published by MHS Press. The event is held in conjunction with Members Double Discount Shopping Days.
Booksigning with Betty Vos Hemstad, author of Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters
St. Olaf College Bookstore, Northfield MN
Dates: Dec. 4, 2009
Time: 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Fee: Free
Join Betty Vos Hemstad for a signing of her book Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking Through the Seasons.
Travelers in the Boundary Waters find much to draw the eye, not least of which is a profusion of wildflowers at every turn. For the unstudied hiker, what better way to meet these plants than with a friend to guide your vision and understanding? The author’s unique collection of stunning, full-color photographs, taken over a twenty-year span, offers views of 120 regional flowers shown throughout their life cycles. This guide is organized by season and then by color. The author’s practical and personable descriptions spotlight each plant’s features and offer tidbits about common names, historic uses, and favorite locations.
Longtime nature photographer and BWCA community organizer, Betty Vos Hemstad spends her summers on the Gunflint Trail in northern Minnesota.
For more information call 507-786-3048.
Booksigning with Mitch Omer, author of Damn Good Food
Northern Lights Books and Gifts, Duluth MN
Dates: Dec. 5, 2009
Time: 1 to 2:00 p.m.
Fee: Free
Join Mitch Omer for a book signing of his new book Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes from Hell’s Kitchen.
The author reveals the recipes that have made his restaurant a pleasure seeker’s destination, including inventions like his tart, ethereal Lemon-Ricotta Hotcakes, dark, wild Bison Sausage Bread; and sweet, creamy Mahnomin Porridge. There are recipes inspired by places and people, including the author’s own close-knit family, reworked and made his own. His dad’s caramel rolls and coleslaw, locally raised-bison burgers smeared with his mom’s mustard, and his own famous homemade peanut butter. These dishes have the hungry and eager queued up out the doors of Hell’s Kitchen, often for hours, and now you can make them at home.
Mitch Omer is the chef-owner of Hell’s Kitchen in Minneapolis and Duluth.
For more information call 218-722-5267.
Booksigning: Don Stolz, 'The Old Log Theater and Me'
Minnesota History Center, St. Paul MN
Dates: Dec. 5, 2009
Time: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Fee: Free
Don Stolz will be on hand to meet visitors and sign copies of his newly published autobiography, "The Old Log Theater and Me." The theater has entertained more than six million patrons since opening its doors in 1940. Stolz, the heart and soul of the theater, has worked there seven days a week for the past 70 years. His autobiography is a thorough account of his joint life journey with the unique, cherished theater and its Midwestern take on the stage arts. Presented in conjuction with Members Double Discount Shopping Days.
Booksigning: Bette Hammel & Karen Melvin, 'The Legendary Homes of Lake Minnetonka'
Minnesota History Center, St. Paul MN
Dates: Dec. 5, 2009
Time: 1 to 2 p.m.
Fee: Free
Author Bette Hammel and photographer Karen Melvin will be on hand to meet visitors and sign copies of their book, "The Legendary Homes of Lake Minnetonka," recently published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. The event is held in conjuction with Members Double Discount Shopping Days.
Booksigning with Peg Meier, author of Bring Warm Clothes
St. Olaf College Bookstore, Northfield MN
Dates: Dec. 5, 2009
Time: 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Fee: Free
Join Peg Meier for a signing of her newly reissued books Too Hot, Went to Lake: Seasonal Photos from Minnesota’s Past and Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and photos from Minnesota's Past.
Boys with a sprinkler, nuns at a ball game, proud hunters with their quarry – this collection of more than three hundred pictures dating from the earliest cameras to the mid-twentieth century offers a trip back in time in Too Hot, Went to Lake. The author shares excerpts collected from diaries and letters that allow Minnesotans of ages past to comment on pine tree vistas, harvest bounty, and the weather, always the weather.
Bring Warm Clothes is a celebration of everyday lives of Minnesotans through the centuries-those who paused here on their way to someplace else, and those who made the state their home. The stories and more emerge from select diary and journal entries, from published accounts and business records- the experiences of ordinary Minnesotans. Matched with drawings and photographs that capture a way of life at a particular moment, these impressions offer a telling history of the state in the words of its people.
Peg Meier is an award-winning former reporter for the Star Tribune. She is the author of Coffee Made Her Insane and The Last of the Tearoom Ladies.
For more information call 507-786-3048.
Reading & signing with Kevin Kling, author of Kevin Kling’s Holiday Inn
Birchbark Books Herbs and Native Arts, Minneapolis MN
Dates: Dec. 11, 2009
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Fee: Free
Join Kevin Kling for a reading and signing of his new book Kevin Kling’s Holiday Inn.
The book is a romp through a yearful of holidays and a life-time of gathering material. A wiener dog with an amazing capacity for destruction impresses the whole family and contributes to their collection of favorite disastrous Christmas stories. A Choctaw and a nun go trick-or-treating on Halloween. A boy makes a frightening decision every year when he chooses which classmate gets the “Be Mine” Valentine. Kevin takes his mom to a Fourth of July demolition derby-and then he takes an epic trip around the bases at a ball game on Memorial Day. From tomfoolery with his brother in the backseat of their dad’s car through his carefully considered instructions for ice fishing, Kling never loses the spirit of his story or holds back on its humor.
Kevin Kling is a well-known playwright and storyteller, and his commentaries can be heard on public radio. His plays and adaptations have been performed around the world. He is the author of The Dog Says How. He lives in Minneapolis.
For more information call 612-374-4023.
Book signing with Mitch Omer, author of Damn Good Food
Cooks of Crocus Hill-St. Paul, St. Paul MN
Dates: Dec. 12, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Fee: Free
Join Mitch Omer for a book signing of his new book Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes from Hell’s Kitchen.
The author reveals the recipes that have made his restaurant a pleasure seeker’s destination, including inventions like his tart, ethereal Lemon-Ricotta Hotcakes, dark, wild Bison Sausage Bread; and sweet, creamy Mahnomin Porridge. There are recipes inspired by places and people, including the author’s own close-knit family, reworked and made his own. His dad’s caramel rolls and coleslaw, locally raised-bison burgers smeared with his mom’s mustard, and his own famous homemade peanut butter.
These dishes have the hungry and eager queued up out the doors of Hell’s Kitchen, often for hours, and now you can make them at home.
Mitch Omer is the chef-owner of Hell’s Kitchen in Minneapolis and Duluth.
For more information call 651-228-1333.
"Kevin Kling’s Holiday Inn" Reading and Book Signing
Mill City Museum, Minneapolis MN
Dates: Dec. 13, 2009
Time: 2 p.m.
Fee: Programs included with museum admission of $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for MHS members.
Reservations: recommended,
call 612-341-7555
Storyteller, playwright and humorist Kevin Kling will read from his new book, "Holiday Inn" in the museum’s West Engine House theater. Afterwards he will sign copies of the book, and audience members can view the film "Minneapolis in 19 Minutes Flat," Mill City Museum’s whirlwind tour of our fair city written by and starring Kevin Kling.
Book signing with Mitch Omer, author of Damn Good Food
Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis MN
Dates: Dec. 19, 2009
Time: 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Fee: Free
Join Mitch Omer for a book signing of his new book Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes from Hell’s Kitchen.
The author reveals the recipes that have made his restaurant a pleasure seeker’s destination, including inventions like his tart, ethereal Lemon-Ricotta Hotcakes, dark, wild Bison Sausage Bread; and sweet, creamy Mahnomin Porridge. There are recipes inspired by places and people, including the author’s own close-knit family, reworked and made his own. His dad’s caramel rolls and coleslaw, locally raised-bison burgers smeared with his mom’s mustard, and his own famous homemade peanut butter. These dishes have the hungry and eager queued up out the doors of Hell’s Kitchen, often for hours, and now you can make them at home.
Mitch Omer is the chef-owner of Hell’s Kitchen in Minneapolis and Duluth.
For more information call 612-822-4611.
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