The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s third season of Coffee With The Authors is about building. And the next interview in the 2025 series is about building the history of a place, in this case Glen Arbor Township: A History to 1920, a new, hardcover book edited by Andrew White; and written by Paul Dechow, Mary Severson Tris, Barbara Siepker, and John Tris. The interview takes place August 24, 11 am in the GAAC Main Gallery.
Published by Leelanau Press, Glen Arbor Township surveys the geological, social, and human history of what became Glen Arbor Township, a municipal designation encompassing 87.6 square miles of land and water. Over the course of 368 pages, and drawing on original documents, the five collaborating writers present a picture of this place, starting with the glacial activities that lay the groundwork for the Land of Delight; the lifeway of the original inhabitants; followed by the commercial timbering era, fruit orchards, Glen Arbor’s early resorts, and the accompanying population shifts. GAAC Gallery Manager Sarah Bearup-Neal will explore the mechanics of how a group of writers build a cohesive history, and what current day residents can glean from the past.
Coffee With The Authors is a series of conversational interviews with local, regional, and state authors about the art, craft, and process of writing. In these interviews, Bearup-Neal talks with writers – poets, essayists, memoirists, fiction writers, historical fiction writers, writers of creative non-fiction – and explores how writers work and think. There is no charge.
Coffee With The Authors enjoys the support of the Cottage Book Shop and the Glen Lake Community Library.
