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Brown Bag Author Event: John Halter
May 6 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join us for a free author event at the Brainerd Public Library! Meet the author, hear their work, and ask questions. May’s author is John Halter, discussing his memoir, “Driving Dad Home.”
In this funny, sad, challenging, and loving saga, author John Halter embarks on a mission to rescue his 96-year-old father, Russ, from an impossible situation in a Phoenix trailer park. Russ, a Depression-era farm boy, World War II Navy veteran, and retired heavy-equipment salesman, doesn’t want to leave, and to make things more difficult still, his short-term memory is fading. As father and son finally hit the road, Halter learns that the best way to coax his dad to cooperate is to get him talking about the past, and their multi-day trip across the western landscape becomes a halting but extended reminiscence about Russ’s childhood and war experiences, the rich family life they shared, and the misunderstandings they found it difficult to overcome.
Bring your own brown bag lunch, or just enjoy the light refreshments provided by the Friends of the Brainerd Public Library.
