Date & Time
Date(s) - April 29, 2021
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
As part of its year-long HEMINGWAY HOMECOMING celebration, the Village of Walloon Lake is hosting Walloon Lake Reads: The Nick Adams Stories which kicks off on Thursday, April 1 and runs through mid-May, culminating with a finale tour of area sites featured in the stories.
April 29 – A Soldier Home with Jennifer Tianen (McQuillan) featuring the stories Big Two-Hearted River — The End of Something — The Three Day Blow — Summer People.
Jennifer Tianen (McQuillan) — English teacher and founder of the Literary Garden at West Bloomfield High School in West Bloomfield, Michigan. The Literary Garden houses plants from American authors’ homes and works to provide a multi-sensory setting for student learning (including “the close-growing mint” in “Summer People” (section 4, The Nick Adams Stories). Her research and writing has appeared in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Green Teacher, The Oakland Journal, Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, and The Literary Encyclopedia. Tianen is the secretary of the Michigan Hemingway Society and is the editor of the Marge Bump Letters Project. Hemingway’s mint is a student favorite in the Literary Garden.
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