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MN Reads: "Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic" By Natalie Warren

Then-22 year old Natalie Warren and her friend Ann Raiho took a 2,000-mile journey by paddle from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay in 2011.

But ten years later, the biggest challenge Natalie says she faced might surprise you.

Author Natalie Warren to discuss her new book Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic at a virtual launch, 7:00 PM CT, Tuesday, February 9, 2021. The evening will include an introduction by polar explorer Ann Bancroft, music, videos, trivia, poetry, storytelling, and a Q&A moderated by environmental activist and canoe expeditioner Lee Vue.

The event is co-hosted by the Friends of the Boundary Waters, St. Croix River Association, Friends of the Mississippi River, Voyageurs Conservancy, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, and University of Minnesota Press. Register at: Z.UMN.EDU/WARRENLAUNCH.

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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