Historical Alliance of Cook County presents: "Storytelling from the Back Roads of Cook County"

  The Historical Alliance of Cook County is excited to announce the third annual "Storytelling from the Back Roads of Cook County," on October 11, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. The event will feature speakers from members of the alliance representing the different areas throughout Cook County. Schroeder Area Historical Society, Tofte Historical Society, Cook County Historical Society, and Gunflint Trail Historical Society/Chik Wauk Nature Center make up the Historical Alliance.

As part of the event, Margaret Hedstrom will deliver a presentation concerning the history and ongoing preservation efforts related to the historic fishing tug, the Nee-Gee.

David Hakensen, a communications consultant and the immediate past president of the Minnesota Historical Society, will also be presenting. He will discuss his new biography, Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover.

Additional speakers include Katie O'Gara, who will be reading excerpts from an interview between Beryl Singleton Bissell and Mary T. Bell. Bell is an author best known for her books on food preservation, but also for Cutting Across Time, Logging, Rafting, and Milling the Forests of Lake Superior, which is the topic of the presentation.

The fourth speaker is Mark Gordon, who, along with his wife Katya Gordon, founded Amicus Adventure Sailing in Knife River, MN, after a year-long sailing trip to the Bahamas with their two young daughters, chronicled in Katya's book. Their focus later shifted to Sea Change Expeditions, a mission-driven organization that uses sailing voyages on Lake Superior for climate change engagement.

Laurie Spry will MC the event. 

The event is free and open to the public.

To learn more, visit: https://www.cookcountyhistory.org/third-annual-storytelling

https://www.cookcountyhistory.org/third-annual-storytelling

Arrowhead Center for the Arts, Grand Marais