Why Life is Better “At the Lake”

April 8, 2008 - PRLog -- Minneapolis, MN -- Award-winning author, John Henricksson, introduces the third book of his trilogy about life in northern Minnesota: The Gunflint Cabin, a Northwoods Memoir. (http://www.gunflintcabin.com) In this candid, humorous and nostalgic memoir, John recounts his 28 years at their Gunflint Lake cabin. He weaves stories of his neighbors, the nearby wildlife, berrying, creative outhouse designs, the ongoing repair of his water system, bread baking, woodpiles, the constant up-keep and repair of cabin property and provides a list of things for the kids to do when guests arrive.

Henricksson writes about the joys and the therapy of renewal which have made the family cabin “up at the lake,” an icon for over two million Minnesotans for nearly a century. It is time, the author says, that an old cabin owner chronicle these cabin days, hoping that an older reader might say, “oh, yeah, I remember that,” or a younger reader longing for a simpler, less stressful lifestyle may say, “Hey, cool.”

The Gunflint Cabin sits at the crossroad of memory and desire, of summer work and solitude, of animals and friends and connections. John Henricksson sings the magic -- and history and dailiness -- of lake life in Northern Minnesota. Lake dwellers will recognize the characters, the routine, and share the author's affection.  --Annette Atkins, author of Creating Minnesota and Professor of History, College of Saint Benedict

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Henricksson, 81, has written about the natural and cultural history of northern Minnesota for fifty years in newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, film and books. The Gunflint Cabin: A Northwoods Memoir is the third of his trilogy of the Gunflint region. The first book, A Wild Neighborhood, won a Minnesota Book Award in 1998, both for him and artist Betsy Bowen for her woodcut illustrations. Bowen has also done the woodcut cover for this new book. The second, Gunflint: The Trail, The People, The Stories, contains a compact disc of reminiscences of earlier days on the Gunflint Trail by long-time residents. John and his wife Julie, have lived in their Gunflint Lake cabin for five months a year since 1980 and “come south for the winter” to their home in Mahtomedi, on White Bear Lake near St. Paul

The Gunflint Cabin: A Northwoods Memoir, by John Henricksson, from Beavers Pond Press, (http://www.beaverspondpress.com) Minneapolis, ISBN 1-59298-219-0, retails for $14.95 and is available from Ingram, our distributor Bookhouse Fulfillment: 800-901-3480, or at Amazon.com. Mr. Henrickkson will be undertaking an extensive author tour in spring/summer and will be happy to talk about his book through live or print interviews, or via telephone interviews. To receive an advance review copy and press kit or to schedule an interview with the author please contact Linda Strommer, 651-208-5574 or visit the author’s website: http://www.gunflintcabin.com

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