Clay Jenkinson & The Prairies. June 4, 2010

Last night we attended a wonderful event: a book signing by Clay Jenkinson, followed by a taping of an interview about Eric Sevarid, which turned into a spirited discussion of living in ND. If memory serves, the tape will be broadcast on PP Radio on June 13 at 5, right after book club, actually. It begins as a tribute to Eric Sevarid (born in Velva), but turns into a spirited discussion of what it means to live in ND,in what Jeninkson calls "the sacred corridor" by which he means a region roughly 300-400 miles west of the 100th meridian--from here to say, Billings. I picked up a copy of Jenkinson essays, called Message on the Wind--lyrical autobiographical pieces along the lines of Ivan Doig, but more readable for my money--more informed by history, less densely metaphorical.