2025 Ridges & Rivers Book Festival

2025 Ridges & Rivers Book Festival
April 26
Free
The third annual Ridges & Rivers Book Festival features author presentations, children’s programming, a book fair, community readings, and an art show. Scheduled presenters include William Kent Krueger (the bestselling author of the Cork O’Connor series), Erica Hannickel (“Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers”), Brian Reisinger (“Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family’s Hope and the Untold Story of the Disappearing Farmer”), Amy Pease (“Northwoods”), Maggie Ginsberg (“Still True”), Keith Lesmeister (the editor of “Rural Stories: Writers of Color”), Marcy West (“Protecting Paradise in the Driftless: How the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Came to Be”), Tamara Dean (“Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless”), Dean Robbins (“You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr.”), Tom Mosgaller and Pastor Michele Engh (“Pulling Together: A Handbook for Community Change”), and Viroqua’s own Wisconsin Family Theater. For more information on presentation times and venues, go to www.ridgesandriversbookfestival.org.