[Iesaf_selkirk] Fw: "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America" (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tim Egan's lecture and book signing in CdA on 10/8) - 1910 FIRES

[lkaney]

> This could be one of the greatest  "happenings" this year related to the 
> 1910 Fires!  The info. below is located on this website:
> http://www.idahohumanities.org/?p=2009_cda_egan  (it's the active "click 
> here" website mentioned below where you can get tickets for the event).
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> The price of the ticket includes dinner at the Coeur d'Alene Resort, 
> lecture and book signing.
> I SPOKE TO THE RESORT JUST NOW.... THERE ARE ONLY ABOUT 50 TICKETS LEFT SO 
> HURRY IF YOU'RE INTERESTED!
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> GAIL ASCHENBRENNER WEST
> Public Affairs Officer
> Idaho Panhandle National Forests
> Office:  (208) 765-7211, FAX (208) 765-7426
> Cellular:  (208) 661-8080
> gaschenbrenner at fs.fed.us
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> | Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Timothy Egan to speak in Coeur 
> d'Alene, October 8                 |
> | (Embedded image moved to file: pic01758.jpg)Timothy Egan 
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> | "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America" 
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> | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Book Award winner Timothy 
> Egan will present the IHC’s|
> | 6th Annual Northern Idaho Distinguished Humanities Lecture on Thursday, 
> October 8, 2009, at the     |
> | Coeur d’Alene Resort. The event includes dinner, lecture, and a book 
> signing. Doors open at 6 p.m.  |
> | and the event begins at 7 p.m. Egan’s books will be available for sale 
> at the event.                |
> | Tickets are available now by clicking here or by calling 888-345-5346. 
> General tickets are $45.     |
> | Benefactor tickets are $100, offering an invitation to a pre-dinner
> | reception with Egan in a private| home and close-up seating at the
> | dinner and lecture. IHC always recommends reserving tickets early  |
> | as the event usually sells out. The event is made possible in part by 
> the Idaho Forest Group, North | Idaho Title, the Hagadone Corporation, the 
> Coeur d'Alene Press and Idaho Public Television.(Embedded|
> | image moved to file: pic31476.jpg)The Big Burn 
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> | | Egan is the author of five books. His most recent, The Big Burn:
> | Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that  | Saved America, will be released
> | this fall just in time for the event and will serve as the focus of | 
> Egan’s talk. The book explores the story of the great 1910 fire that 
> devastated forests in northern|
> | Idaho and Montana, claimed the lives of more than 80 people, and 
> inspired a national plan by the    |
> | newly formed U.S. Forest Service to combat such horrific blazes in the 
> future.                      |
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> | His last book, The Worst Hard Time, a story about survivors of the 
> dustbowl of the 1930s, won the   |
> | 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction, considered one of the nation’s 
> highest literary honors. He |
> | also shares a Pulitzer Prize, from 2001, as part of a team of New York 
> Times reporters for their    |
> | series, “How Race Is Lived in America.” 
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> | (Embedded image moved to file: pic10942.jpg)The Worst Hard Time 
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> | As part of his visit, Egan will speak earlier in the day to a large 
> group of students at Coeur      |
> | d’Alene High School. 
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> | Egan is an online, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, writing his 
> “Outposts” opinion feature   |
> | once a week – with a Western perspective. 
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> | For 18 years, Egan worked as a reporter for the Times, based in Seattle 
> and roaming the West. He has|
> | covered everything from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to the O.J. Simpson 
> trial to the collapse of    |
> | small town America in the Great Plains. 
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> | Egan is a regular contributor to BBC Radio, doing a series of vignettes 
> on American life.           |
> | A graduate of the University of Washington, Egan also holds an honorary 
> doctorate of letters from   |
> | Whitman College. 
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> | Since 2004, the IHC has brought top historians and authors to Coeur d’Alene 
> for the annual event.   |
> | Previous speakers include presidential biographer Robert Dallek (2004), 
> western writer Ivan Doig    |
> | (2005), journalist Susan Orlean (2006), author Andrew Carroll (2007) and 
> National Public Radio      |
> | correspondent Juan Williams (2008). 
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