Presentation and Book Signing
This Water Goes North
Saturday, Sept. 12th
Library Community Room
10:30 amCelebrate One Year in our New Facility!
Free Admission Enjoy some Cake!
In 1979 four Iowa boys--with beat-up canoes and no experience--hatched up a plan to paddle 1,400 miles
from Minnesota to Hudson Bay."Reads like an adventure novel, but is a true-life story...very much recommended, enthralling reading."
-Midwest Book Review"Delightful...beautifully written. More than just a travelogue,
it is about living life to the fullest."
-Wendy Wendt, 2008 Minnesota Library Association
Dennis Weidemann,
Author and native of
LaPorte City
More information about the book...
During a lazy day of fishing, a father asked his young son a seemingly harmless question, “Do you know where this water goes?” Several years later, the boy, his brother, and two friends set off on a 1,400 mile journey to find out.
That fishing trip planted an idea that eventually led four Iowa lads on a two-and-a-half month canoeing voyage from Minnesota to the polar bears of Hudson Bay. Three decades later, their inspiring adventure has been captured in This Water Goes North, a new book by La Porte City native Dennis Weidemann.
Just three days into the trip, the intrepid explorers had their first brush with near disaster, when two of the young men capsized and found themselves pinned under a fallen tree in fast water. There were still treacherous rapids and hundreds of miles of unpopulated wilderness to come, but close calls would be just a part of a rich adventure filled with tales of bootleggers, friendship, a polar bear, and humorous escapades with local characters.
Find out more by coming to the library at 10:30 am on Sat., Sept. 12th and help us celebrate the one year in the new library facility! Weidemann, the author, will give a presentation and do a book signing. Books will be sold at $20 a copy.
