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Dark Side of the Loon Author Event
June 9, 2018 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
Dark Side of the Loon Author Event by Anoka County Historical Society
Every 45 minutes a new author will take the stage at the History Center to read a portion of their story in “The Dark Side of the Loon” and answer your questions. Want to know more about the writing process? How they conducted research? When they found time to write? How they published? Now is your chance.
This is a (FREE!) open house event so come for one (or all!) of these presentations. We ask that you wait until the start of the next session to join the group, however, so please make note of the following schedule:
10:30 a.m.
Midge Bubany – “You Picked a Fine Time to Kill Me, Lucille” – Halloween Blizzard of 1991
M. E. Bakos (Mary Sebesta) “Perfect Storm . . . Perfect Murder” – Halloween Blizzard of 1991
11:15 a.m.
Barbara Merritt Deese – “Twisted” – Anoka Tornado of 1939 and Anoka State Hospital
A. W. Powers (Bill Anderson) “Tempest” – Anoka Tornado, June 18, 1939
12:00 noon
T. S. Owen (Timya Owen) – “The Last Game” – last game at Met Center, 1993
Greg Dahlager – “Misty” – Halloween Blizzard of 1991
12:45 p.m.
Marlene Chabot – “More Than Lessons” – 1847 – Harriot Bishop, Saint Paul’s first school teacher, and James Goodhue, editor of the Minnesota Pioneer
Carol Huss – “Escape to Skunk Lake” – the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894
1:30 p.m.
Cheryl Lewis – “Three Ducks Down” – Armistice Day Blizzard, 1940
Christine Husom – “The Birthday Box” – WWII POWs in Wright County, MN
2:15 p.m.
Michael Allan Mallory – “Not So Legendary Outlaws” – 1876 Jesse James bank robbery
Karl Jorgenson – Swedish Meatballs” – Swedish royalty visit to MN in 1958
3:00 p.m.
Sherry Roberts – “Wind Rider” – MN bison kill site