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Okanagan College Penticton Speakers Series

Super turnout last night at the Penticton campus of Okanagan College as Laurie and Bruce took centre stage with their popular presentation: Touring Tips for Reluctant Guides and Eager Explorers – Okanagan See & Do. This lively program with signature slideshow answers the not-so-rhetorical-for-Okanaganites questions...

Bruce Kemp Featured in Hometown Paper

Read what the Sarnia Observer (PDF) has to say about native son Bruce Kemp and Letters From a Fugitive's Son.

Vernon Morning Star Story

Gifts of the Okanagan featured in Vernon Morning Star (PDF).

Bookland Event

Great reception at Vernon's Bookland yesterday. We'd like to thank all the people who stopped by for a chat about the Okanagan and/or photography and took home copies of Gifts of the Okanagan. Bookland is an excellent bookstore with an absolutely remarkable selection of magazines - really surprising for a city the size of Vernon. http://www.booklandvernon.com/

Pulitzer Finalist "Highly Recommends" Letters From a Fugitive's Son

Betty DeRamus, award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist, wrote this comment on the Amazon.com listing for Bruce Kemp's Letters From a Fugitive's Son.

"In Letters from a Fugitive’s Son, novelist Bruce Kemp uses the letters and memories of a free black 19th century man to tell a story that hasn’t been told enough: what it was like for black fighting men during America’s Civil War. 

"Kemp’s major creation is Frederick Douglass Macdonald, the Canadian-born son of a man who escaped slavery in the U.S.