April 28, 2025
Organizers of the Ridges & Rivers Book Festival report great weather and a great lineup of authors helped to make the third year of the festival a success once again. They estimate about 1,000 people attended the one day event that featured author readings and presentations throughout the day and culminated with a presentation from William Kent Krueger, the author of twenty novels in the New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor mystery series. And later a performance at the Historic Temple Theatre by Wisconsin author and Humorist Michael Perry.
Venues and restaurants were buzzing all day Saturday as authors and presenters filled spaces throughout the downtown from the Vernon County Museum, to WTC, to City Hall. Organizers said they will be calculating the economic impact to the local economy, but in the first year of the event they calculated it created over $100,000 of economic activity.
The line-up of authors/presenters included a number of Wisconsin authors and some Vernon County authors specifically including Tamara Dean, Marcy West and Sue Berg.
You can watch the presentation by Marcy West about here book “Protecting Paradise in the Driftless” (How The Kickapoo Valley Reserve Came To Be) on the Ridges & Rivers Facebook page here.
You can also watch the presentation by Tamara Dean about her book “Shelter and Storm” (At Home in the Driftless) on the Ridges & Rivers Facebook page here.
Add comment