Attend a Bush Craft Camp with Annika Mersmann for a ninety-minute storytelling tour through an imaginary day of living like a hunter-gatherer; learn about shelter building, fire making, foraging for food, primitive cooking, hands-on crafts, and much more. Discover how to meet survival needs and thrive while in the bush.
Wildlife expert Al Cornell describes his detailed observations of birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, and insects after spending more than four hundred hours in a blind overlooking a beaver pond near La Farge. His book, A Year at a Beaver Pond, includes field notes and thousands of photos that tell the story of this dynamic little ecosystem.
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Memoirist Mary Karr asks, “What would you write if you weren’t afraid?” Implicit in the question is that we’re all afraid of writing something. But what? And why? Join nonfiction writer B.J. Hollars for a conversation on writing within—and through—the complexities of our lives. How can we write toward our deeper truths, even when it hurts to do so? This two-hour interactive workshop will ask participants to engage with a variety of curated writing prompts geared toward crafting the opening pages of a memoir or short essay.
Writing can help us reconcile with the changes confronting our favorite places and lead us to new ways of honoring, tending, and sharing those places. This workshop led by Tamara Dean will guide you through depicting a beloved landscape in a vivid, compelling way that will affect your readers deeply. You’ll leave the workshop with a draft that you can develop into a complete story, essay, poem, or longer work about the landscape that speaks to your heart. Open to writers with any level of experience working in any genre, and there will be plenty of time for questions.
Attend a Bush Craft Camp with Annika Mersmann for a ninety-minute storytelling tour through an imaginary day of living like a hunter-gatherer; learn about shelter building, fire making, foraging for food, primitive cooking, hands-on crafts, and much more. Discover how to meet survival needs and thrive while in the bush.
Marty Schreiber will give a conversational presentation on caring for someone with this difficult disease. An audience Q&A will follow. Representatives from the Vernon County Aging and Disability Resource Center will be available to offer information on local resources.
In this workshop, led by Paul Palumbo and Ruth Kittelson, you will experience the liturgy, have time to process that experience in a safely held space and explore the particulars of this lovely book for your use, not only in visiting the dying, but also as a guide in processing the backlog of grief we […]
Attend a Bush Craft Camp with Annika Mersmann for a ninety-minute storytelling tour through an imaginary day of living like a hunter-gatherer; learn about shelter building, fire making, foraging for food, primitive cooking, hands-on crafts, and much more. Discover how to meet survival needs and thrive while in the bush.
Author Kimberly Blaeser says, “Perhaps artistic desire itself arises from the factors of place.” Join Blaeser and Quan Barry as they read from their work and reflect on their relationship to place and its impact on their writing.
Attend a Bush Craft Camp with Annika Mersmann for a ninety-minute storytelling tour through an imaginary day of living like a hunter-gatherer; learn about shelter building, fire making, foraging for food, primitive cooking, hands-on crafts, and much more. Discover how to meet survival needs and thrive while in the bush.
Join renowned psychic medium Mollie Morning Star for an unforgettable evening where the guests of honor are your loved ones in Spirit. During this group event, she will connect with random audience members and demonstrate her unique ability to provide evidence of continuing connections to those we love in the afterlife.