From the Baraboo River to the Pacific Ocean, Lindsey Steffes and Kara Hakanson connect once again on the south shore of Lake Superior. Both Steffes and Hakanson grew up in the driftless area of Wisconsin, lived in California at the same time in their 20s, and have ties to Lake Superior.
After graduating college and deciding her next step in life, Lindsey moved to Bayfield, a place she visited in the summers, and worked at the Rittenhouse and helped out at the Maritime Museum. Soon after she was accepted into gradaute school in California moved there to receive her MFA in Fiction. She couldn't get the allure of Lake Superior out of her head though. The Lake inspired her so much so, that she wrote and published her first novel, Gichigami, based on the area. She currently resides in Minneapolis but hopes to end up near Lake Superior.
Kara is fifth generation to this area and is an award-winning filmmaker. Her great great grandparents immigrated to Cornucopia from Norway and Czechoslovakia. She also spent her summers here as a kid and worked at Maggie's, Ehler's Store and the Fo'c'sle Inn. Her film, fifteen, was shot entirely in Cornucopia and Bayfield in 2016. It had its premier at Stage North in the fall of 2017, went on to have a successful festival run, and recently screened again to a full house in The Outback here at Honest Dog back in January. Kara was living in London and moved back to the area last spring and now works here at Honest Dog Books and Apostle Islands Booksellers.
Book Bar and Doors open at 6:30pm. Event commences at 7:30pm
Suggested $5 donation
