[Michlib-l] UP Notable Book Club presents a Q&A session with Hilton Everett Moore about "North of Nelson: Stories of Michigan's Upper Peninsula - Volume 1"

[Victor R. Volkman]

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      UP Notable Book Club presents a Q&A session with Hilton Everett
      Moore about "North of Nelson: Stories of Michigan's Upper
      Peninsula - Volume 1"

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UP Notable Book Club:* the Crystal Falls Community District Library in 
partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has 
scheduled author events with winners of the /UP Notable Book List/. The 
28th event is with Hilton Everett Moore's debut short story collection 
North of Nelson: Stories of Michigan's Upper Peninsula - Volume 1 
<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=082e152b01&e=2efc3cf0fe>. 
Follow the ups and downs of residents over a span of 150 years in a 
fictional small community somewhere in Baraga County in Michigan's Upper 
Peninsula.  Some have compared the series from Silver Mountain Press to 
a Michener saga, albeit on a smaller scale. You can enjoy the book in 
paperback, hardcover, eBook, and audiobook editions.

/*When: */June 8th, 2023 at 7 pm Eastern / 6 pm Central
/*Where: */on the Zoom platform -- please contact Evelyn Gathu in 
advance by egathu at crystalfallslibrary.org 
<mailto:egathu at crystalfallslibrary.org?subject=UPNotableBooks&body=Please-send-me-the-zoom-link>, 
or by phone at (906) 875-3344. We recommend you borrow a copy of these 
books from your local library or purchase from your local bookseller in 
advance to get the most out of these events.

*HILTON EVERETT MOORE* is a published short story author who lives and 
writes at his remote cabin in the near wilderness of Baraga County in 
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He has held many positions in his life 
including: a stint as a kennel man for a Humane Society, a factory 
worker, later as a certified pipe welder in the oil fields of West 
Texas, and also as an assistant manager of a lumber company. Ironically 
in a chapter he would like to forget, a gut-wrenching failed attempt at 
owning a restaurant. After a midlife crisis he went back to college and 
received a Master’s Degree in Social Work. Upon graduation, he was 
employed in the Michigan prison system as a Clinical Social Worker. 
Presently he enjoys writing in his cabin in the wilderness. He likes to 
fish with worms..**

<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=9099020369&e=2efc3cf0fe>The 
short stories, such as “A Shotgun Wedding", in /North of Nelson /are 
relatable to anyone. In this chapter, a woman felt forced to get married 
because of pregnancy and then found out she was not happy with the 
result. Many people have struggled when it came to pets and they were 
presented with problems that were not easily solved which was described 
in the chapter called “A Dog Named Bunny.” And the situation described 
in “The Irascible Pedagogue” is equally relatable. If only the 
protagonist had asked her to dance with him instead of getting cold 
feet, things would have turned out so much differently. That story 
reminded me of the movie /My Best Friend’s Wedding/ with Julia Roberts. 
Julia’s character did a whole host of things to win back her friend and 
take him from the person he was going to marry.

I recommend this book because of the stories filled with touching 
moments about real-life situations and how the characters struggled to 
overcome their life challenges. Sometimes a problem took on a whole new 
life of its own without any solution. Moore provided the reader with the 
ramifications of many of the hardships the characters in his stories 
faced. I wanted to find out what was going to happen to the 
well-developed characters, individuals who resembled people I have met 
throughout my life. Moore brought to life the pain Nimkii experienced as 
a Native American woman and the pain of loneliness for a boy while he 
dealt with polio. I highly recommend North of Nelson, Vol. 1 
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if you want to learn more about life during The Depression, about life 
at the Baraga orphanage, and other experiences from the past concerning 
the characters from Moore’s book who lived in the Upper Peninsula of 
Michigan.  -- read the full review 
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by Sharon Brunner, /U.P. Book Review/

More information about the U.P. Notable Book list, /U.P. Book Review, 
/and UPPAA can be found on www.UPNotable.com 
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*<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=5943669a21&e=2efc3cf0fe>About 
the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA)*
Established in 1998 to support authors and publishers who live in or 
write about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, UPPAA is a Michigan nonprofit 
association with more than 100 members, many of whose books are featured 
on the organization’s website at www.uppaa.org 
<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=a3297776b8&e=2efc3cf0fe>. 
UPPAA welcomes membership and participation from anyone with a UP 
connection who is interested in writing. # # #

-- 
Regards,

Victor R. Volkman, President
L H Press Inc.
www.LHPress.com
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