Memories of Home

The YMCA Writer's Voice and Parmly Billings Library present the High Plains BookFest and Book Awards Friday-Saturday, October 19-20 in Billings, Montana.  Author Tom McGuane will be honord at the High Plains Book Awards Banquet.

Schedule of Events
High Plains BookFest & High Plains Book Award Schedule

Friday October 19

My Home's in Montana
Charlotte Caldwell, author of  Visions and Voices: Montana's One-Room Schoolhouses
          Western Heritage Center, Noon                              

Chere Jiusto, Christine W. Brown, Tom Ferris, authors of Hand Raised: The Barns of Montana
          Western Heritage Center, 2:30 pm                            

Montana: Real Place, Real People
Speakers: Alan Kesselheim, Tom Lee,
          Western Heritage Center,  4pm                                                      

Author Reception
           Babcock Arcade, 5 pm                   

Reading: Let Them Paddle  Alan Kesselheim,
          G&G Advertising, 2804 3rd Avenue N, 7:30pm                                                   

Saturday, October 20

Iluminating Life: Art and Photography 
Sue Hart, author of Fra Dana: American Impressionist in the Rockies  and Lynne Montague, author of Rim Haven
          Yellowstone Art Museum, Murdock Room – 10 am

Poetry from the Western Landscape
Twyla M Hansen, author of Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet, Joe Wilkins, author of Killing the Murnion Dogs and Nancy Curtis, on Patricia Frolander’s Married into It
          Yellowstone Art Museum, Visible Vault – 10 am

Native Journey
Sara Wiles, author of Arapaho Journeys: Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation
           Yellowstone Art Museum, Murdock Room – 12 Noon

Selected Shorts: Fact and Fiction     
Ed Kemmick, author of The Big Sky, By and By,  Craig Lancaster, author of Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure,  Shann Ray, author of American Masculine
          Yellowstone Art Museum, Visible Vault – 12 Noon 

Fiction: Colored by Life and Imagination
Adele Dueck, author of Racing Home, Jenny Shank, author of The Ringer and Robin Troy, author of Liberty Lanes
          Yellowstone Art Museum, Murdock Room – 2:30 pm

True Stories from the Western Frontier
Betty Jane Hegerat, author of The Boy, David Mogen, author of Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories, and Lael Morgan, author of Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder, and the Wild Women of Montana's Frontier
          Yellowstone Art Museum, Visible Vault – 2:30 pm

Awards Banquet  (Ticketed event: call 256-0625. Tickets are $40/person)
Yellowstone Art Museum – 6 pm
Emeritus Award winner Tom McGuane - 7pm