Author Event with Annick Smith
In Crossing the Plains with Bruno, Annick Smith weaves a memoir of travel and relationships, western and family history, human bonds, and animal love. A two-week road trip across the Great Plains with her chocolate lab, Bruno, takes Smith from her rural homestead in Montana to pick up her 100-year-old mother from her senior residence on Chicago’s North Side and bring her to the family’s beach house on a dune overlooking Lake Michigan. This is a narrative of linked meditations, often triggered by place, about how the past impinges on the present and how the present can exist seemingly sans past. Bruno’s constant companionship and ever present needs force Smith to return to the now, reminding her that she too is an animal whose existence depends on being alert to the scents, sights, hungers, and emotions of the moment.
Annick Smith is a writer and filmmaker of Jewish-Hungarian descent whose work focuses on the literature and history of the Northern Rockies. Her books include the memoir Homestead, the Montana anthology The Last Best Place, which she edited with William Kittredge, and Big Bluestem, about Oklahoma’s tallgrass prairies. Her articles, essays, and stories have appeared in Audubon, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times, and Story and have been widely anthologized. She was executive producer of the filmHeartland, a co-producer of A River Runs through It, and producer of the public television series The Real People, about Native Americans in the Inland Northwest. Smith is a founding board member of the Sundance Film Institute and founder of Hellgate Writers, a literary center in Missoula. She has lived in western Montana since 1964.
Cost: Free
Age: all ages
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Wed. Nov. 4, 2015 7pm
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