Night of Music, Poetry, and Stories!

Just found out about this great event in the northland for all and any of you who enjoy reindeer and things Scandinavian!

Friday, September 19: Duluth, MN The Reindeer Show is a program of poetry, music and stories celebrating the reindeer, with current and former Duluth Poet Laureates Jim Johnson and Barton Sutter, and special guests Stina Fagertun and Anita Barth-Jørgensen of Tromsø, Norway, located way up at the arctic circle. The performance will be Friday evening, September 19th, 2008 starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Quaker Meeting House located at 1802 East First Street in Duluth. Suggested donations for the performance are $10 for adults, $5 for students and $20 for the whole family. Special refreshments will be for sale during the break provided by Takk for Maten, the new Scandinavian restaurant in downtown Duluth. Ross Sutter, working to arrange the tour. Please contact me at: 612-331-1968 or at my email address: rosssutter at qwest dot net for more information.

Stop by, have some great food, and listen to some wonderful music and poetry! More events to follow that weekend.

Tall Ships

This is a bustling weekend here in Canal Park. Lots of excitement and interest in the Tall Ships coming in this afternoon/evening. We'll be hosting a table featuring a selection of our maritime themed books in the Vender's area of the Maritime Festival in the DECC - so stop by and say hello!

In addition to the tall ships, we also have half of our author booksignings for the month are this weekend!
We start Friday Evening with John Henricksson and Betsy Bowen with the memoir The Gunflint Cabin from 7-8.

Saturday we have Jeffrey Woolf with his novel, Apples of Arcadia, 12-1; Julie Kramer with her new mystery novel, Stalking Susan, 1-2; and Stephen Daniel with his guide, Shipwrecks along Superior's North Shore, 2-3.

Sunday we host Jenifer LeClair signing her new novel, Rigged for Murder, 1-2; and Paula Ellis will be signing her Minnesota's North Shore Activity Book from 2-3.

Come be part of the hustle, bustle and excitement with the great literary events and maritime attractions!