Fishing Into the Twilight: A Presentation by John N. Maclean

Name: Fishing Into the Twilight: A Presentation by John N. Maclean
Start: 2025-05-12T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-12T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 338 S. Front Street , Wrightsville, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17368

Schedule

Mon May 12 2025 at 05:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

338 S. Front Street , Wrightsville, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17368 | Wrightsville, PA

Join us for our Speaker Series event featuring award-winning author John Maclean and his project Fishing into the Twilight, a substantial dive into the rewards and challenges of fly fishing in later years.
Setting off on a quest in old age is, like second marriages, a triumph of hope over experience. But giving up a sport like fly fishing, which has a vital spiritual as well as physical side, is self-defeating. True, you can't carry on a strenuous sport the way you did in younger years. One challenge of old age, however, is to find new ways to do the things you love. Fly fishing in old age has many rewards. You know the good spots, have more time to fish them, and more money to get there and back. The talk will visit streams from the Blackfoot River in Montana to Penns Creek in Pennsylvania that are subjects of articles. The plan is to keep writing articles and make a book out of them, a triumph of hope over actuarial tables.
Schedule
5:30 - 6:00 PM: Meet and Greet with John Maclean and Tom Johnson-Medland, Book Sale
6:00 - 6:45 PM: Dinner & Socializing
6:45 - 7:00 PM: Introduction by Ted Evgeniadis, Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper
7:00 - 8:00 PM: Presentation
8:00 - 9:00 PM: Q&A & Socializing
$65 General Admission includes food, local craft beverages, & a tip towards our fight for clean water. All proceeds benefit Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association. Walk-ins accepted if space is available. Pre-register below today!
About John
John N. Maclean is an award-winning author, journalist and fly fisherman. After thirty years at the Chicago Tribune, mostly as a Washington correspondent, he resigned and wrote a series of books about wildland fire, beginning with Fire on the Mountain, an account of the deadly 1994 fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado, His memoir, Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River, is a lyrical tribute to his home state of Montana and a companion to his father's novella, A River Runs through It. Maclean also wrote the foreword to Ernest Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition, published by Mariner Classics. He has started a series of stories, “Fishing into the Twilight,” about the rewards and challenges of fly fishing late in life. Maclean divides his time between Washington, D.C., and a family cabin at Seeley Lake, Montana.