Posted: May 31st, 2011 
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My first StarTribune.com blog post is about the June I decided to write every day all month long, and all the sights and sounds I recorded of Minnesota’s finest month.
 Last summer, Bill Nedderman made a detour through Minnesota. Tacking on an extra thousand miles or so of paddling was just a way to see some new rivers.  My words show up in a local newspaper, and I reflect on the lineage of wilderness advocacy writing.  My latest project is a new chapbook published through the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, featuring 20 essays, stories and poems about the Boundary Waters.  For those who love traveling the Boundary Waters region by paddle and portage, the new book titled “Paddle North: Canoeing the Boundary Waters-Quetico Wilderness” from photographer Layne Kennedy and writer Greg Breining from the Minnesota Historical Society Press should be of great interest. I wouldn’t normally engage in such promotion on this site, but I’ve already gladly lent my name to the endeavor, with a short endorsement that appears on the back cover of the book. “In Paddle North, Greg Breining and Layne Kennedy have captured the beauty, solitude, and challenges of canoe country. They bring to the reader the essence of Quetico-Superior wilderness and remind us of why we go there. Contained in these pages are the roaring silence, the wild lakes, the |
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