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DOOR COUNTY READS: Kickoff Author Talk with Leif Enger
Write On, Door County is proud to be a presenting partner in Door County Reads. The selection for 2020 is Leif Enger's novel Virgil Wander. After a car accident, the title character suffers memory loss and struggles to reconstruct his past. Set in the small town of Greenstone on Minnesota's Lake Superior shore, Virgil Wander is a bittersweet chronicle of a tightknit community with quirky characters, all-American values, and movie classics. Leif Enger was raised in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Baseball in Door County with Myles Dannhausen, Jr.
As part of Door County Reads, Write On board member and Peninsula Pulse editor Myles Dannhausen, Jr., leads a discussion of the history of baseball in Door County. In Virgil Wander, the novel selected for this year's program, a minor league baseball player in the small town of Greenstone, Minnesota, disappears after flying solo in an old plane over Lake Superior.
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Book Discussion
Write On is proud to be a presenting partner with the Door County Library in the Door County Reads program, offering a variety of free programs throughout the county. Join others for a community discussion of this year's selection, Virgil Wander. This discussion is facilitated by Door County librarian Laura Kayacan. Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Book Discussion
Write On is proud to be a presenting partner with the Door County Library in the Door County Reads program, offering a variety of free programs throughout the county. Join others for a community discussion of this year's selection, Virgil Wander. This discussion is facilitated by Tina Kakuske and Lisa Tetzloff. Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Hometown Writing
Virgil Wander is as much a story about the town of Greenstone as it is about the characters who live there. What would you write about your hometown, either the one you were raised in or where you live now? Through guided exercises, you’ll discover how to tap into memories of those locations and discover the stories those towns have to tell. This writing lab is part of Door County Reads and is led by Write On's Artistic Director Jerod…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Home Is More Than a Place
In nature, home is more than food, water and shelter. Home is a place, but also interactions with the community and the elements. So it is in Virgil Wander. In fact, environmental elements are almost characters in the story. In this presentation, learn some of the natural history of the wind, the lake, and the creatures which figure so prominently in the story and ponder how our communities often mirror nature.
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Hometown Writing
Virgil Wander is as much a story about the town of Greenstone as it is about the characters who live there. What would you write about your hometown, either the one you were raised in or where you live now? Through guided exercises, you’ll discover how to tap into memories of those locations and discover the stories those towns have to tell. This writing lab is part of Door County Reads and is led by Write On's Artistic Director Jerod Santek.…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Play Reading
As part of the Door County Reads program, Third Avenue Playhouse presents a reading of Jordan Harrison's drama "Marjorie Prime." It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie — a jumble of disparate, fading memories — has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance? In this richly spare, wondrous new play, Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Trivia
Join the presenters of Door County Reads for a fun afternoon of trivia based on this year's selection, Virgil Wanders by Leif Enger. There will be prizes awarded for First, Second, and Third place. Facilitated by Steven Rice and Julie Neuchter.
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Play Reading
As part of the Door County Reads program, Peninsula Players presents a reading of James Hindman's dramatic comedy, "Popcorn Falls." The sleepy town of Popcorn Falls is forced into bankruptcy when a neighboring town threatens to turn them into a sewage treatment plant. Their only hope – open a theater! Two actors play over twenty roles in a world of farce, love, and desperation, proving once and for all that art can save the world.
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