I’ll be giving a public lecture at the Minnesota Discovery Center (Ironworld) at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8 in the auditorium. Thursday nights are “free nights” at the center, so you can see the permanent exhibit along with the current special exhibit “Snow Dogs: Snowmobiling in Minnesota.”
You might ask why I’m hooked up with a lecture series about snowmobiling. “Aaron, you don’t own a snowmobile. You don’t ride snowmobiles. You don’t consciously recall ever riding a snowmobile. This is preposterous.” And this would be a natural human reaction. My reaction is HA! I’m not the only one in this boat, and yet snowmobiling, like hunting, drinking and throwing rocks at city folk, is one of the cultural mainstays around which everyone on the Iron Range must navigate.
I’ll also be drawing on some of the work and humorous fodder from my most recent book “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range,” which won a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award this year. If you’ve seen my talks on my book tour last year this will be different. Stay tuned as I announce my Holiday Book Tour in November and December. A copy of “Overburden” will make your semi-literate family member happy well into the second box of Christmas wine, after which the point is rendered moot.
UPDATE: Edited to show the correct time, 6 p.m.
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