VERMILLION — Charles Nauman andJerry Wilson will read from and sign their re-cent books of fiction at 7-9 p.m. Saturday,Sept. 24, at Washington Street Arts Center,202 Washington Street in Vermillion.

A reception and book signing will followthe reading. The event is free and open to thepublic.

“Pola: The Mysterious Communications ofa Gone Woman,” is Charles Nauman’s firstnovel. His narrative, set in the Black Hills, ex-plores the corrosive impact of violence onthe mind and the struggle of Pola to over-come the traumatic assassination of a manshe deeply loved. Influenced by Nauman’sown experience living in the Black Hills anddoing art therapy with film in mental health

centers, the book offers a vi-sion of healing through thesympathetic work of a psy-chotherapist who strives tounderstand a woman’s wayof thinking and her need fornature’s healing. Nauman isa film maker as well as an au-thor of prose and poetry. Hisnovel bears some resem-blance to his film “JohnnyVik” (honored at Cannes, Lo-carno and the Prix L’Age D’Or in Brussels).Among his other films are “Tatonka,” anAmerican Film Festival Blue Ribbon winnerand the “Critic’s Choice” for a BBC-TVreprise; and “Tarahumara: Festival of the

Easter Moon” (selected forseveral international festi-vals including Bilan du filmethnographique, Musee del’Homme, Paris.

Nauman and his wife,Grete Bodøgaard, a tapestryartist, share a live-in studioin Yankton County.

“Blackjacks and Blue Dev-ils” is Jerry Wilson’s firstbook of fiction. Born in

Okeene, Okla., near the Cheyenne-Arapaholand his great-grandfathers took in the Run of1892, Wilson grew up roaming Oklahoma’sblackjack woods and Cimarron River coun-try, attending country school, milking cows

and working in the oil field. His childhood ex-periences and his years serving in the U.S.Army during the Vietnam War provided someof the seeds and settings for his stories.

Wilson, who has lived in South Dakota formore than 30 years, has worked as a univer-sity professor, as managing editor of SouthDakota Magazine, and currently serves as aClay County commissioner. His earlier booksinclude “American Artery: A Pan AmericanJourney” and “Waiting for Coyote’s Call: AnEco-memoir of the Missouri River Bluff.”

He and his wife Norma Wilson, a poet, livein a geo-solar house they built in rural Ver-million.

The event is sponsored by VermillionArea Arts Council.

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MMC’s ‘Paddlefish’Is Now Available

The fifth annual issue of MountMarty College's national literaryjournal “Paddlefish” is now avail-able. The current issue includesstories, essays and poetry fromaward-winning authors such asGeorge Bilgere, Amanda Bradley,Maria Mazziotti Gillan, James Cih-lar, Richard Robbins, and DavidLee amongst others.

Subscribing to “Paddlefish” willenable Mount Marty College tocontinue to publish future issues.

Copies are also available forpurchase in the Mount Marty cam-pus bookstore.

To purchase a copy of the 2011journal or to subscribe to the 2012“Paddlefish,” send $12 to: MountMarty College, c/o PADDLEFISH,1105 W 8th Street, Yankton, SD57078. Make checks payable toMount Marty College (Paddlefishin memo line).

Back issues of the 2007, 2008,and 2010 “Paddlefish” are alsoavailable. Specify which issue youare ordering or if you are inter-ested in a subscription.

The submission period for thenext “Paddlefish” will be Nov. 1,2011-Feb. 29, 2012. No previouslypublished work will be accepted.

“Paddlefish” is a member of theCouncil of Literary Magazines andPresses.

Parking RestrictionsSet For RibFest

There will be no parking in theRibFest Event Area on Third Streetfrom east of the alley betweenBroadway and Cedar Street toDouglas Avenue, east of the Dou-glas Avenue and Third Street inter-section until Capitol Street, andnorth of Third Street on WalnutStreet from 3 a.m. Sept. 17 untilapproximately midnight of thesame date. Remove your vehicleprior to this time.

Call 605-760-4696 or visitwww.historicdowntownyankton.com for more information.

Old-Time Tunes AtGayville Hall Sept. 17

GAYVILLE — Gayville Hallpresents “An Evening of AmericanPopular Songs: 1900-1949,” star-ring John and Susan McNeill, GaryLewis and Dave Napier, at 8 p.m.on Saturday, September 17, inGayville.

The show will feature tunesfrom bygone times that many re-member fondly, including “Bill Bai-ley” (1902) and “WabashCannonball” (1904) through “Backin the Saddle Again,” “Sioux CitySue,” and “Get your Kicks onRoute 66” from the 1940s.

The McNeills, of Springfield,have been the musical hosts atGayville Hall since 2001. They singand play guitar, bass, harmonica,and drums.

Lewis, on 4-string banjo, andNapier, on baritone and other sax-ophones, are both from Sioux City.

Gayville Hall is located at 502Washington Street in Gayville. Call605-267-2859 for ticket informa-tion.

YCTC Auditions SetFor Sept. 22-23

The Yankton Children’s TheatreCompany is holding auditions forits upcoming production of “TheBest Christmas Pageant Ever” onSept. 22-23 at the old Elks Build-ing, 407 Walnut. Auditions are setfor 6-9 p.m.

Performance dates will be Nov.25-27, which is Thanksgivingweekend.

This will be a family productionso YCTC will be auditioning actorsfrom ages 4 to 80. There will becold readings from the script aswell as singing a Christmas carol.

For more information, call 605660-6414.

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Feehan; Fiction• End of Days by Robert Glea-

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• The Language of Flowersby Vanessa Diffenbaugh; Fiction

• The Mercy by BeverlyLewis; Fiction

• Murder on Sister’s Row byVictoria Thompson; Fiction

• New York to Dallas by J.D.Robb; Fiction

• Nothing Daunted byDorothy Wickenden; Fiction

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• The Perfect Suspect by Mar-garet Coel; Fiction

• Plugged by Eoin Colfer; Fic-tion

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• The Race by Clive Cussler;Fiction

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• The Stranger You Seek byAmanda Kyle Williams; Fiction

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New At The LibraryHere’s what’s new at the Yankton Community Library this week:

“The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Ham-mer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived aYear in Iraq” by Bronson Lemer; © 2011, Uni-versity of Wisconsin Press; 223 pages

———BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER

They’ve become as familiar to you as yourown living room: auditoriums filled with uni-formed, spine-straight soldiers on their wayto deployment, or smiling men and women,arms full of family, on their way home.

And no matter what auditorium they’re in,no matter which small town or big city, youcan bet that the first group is wonderingwhat the second group has seen.

They may never know, though, becausemuch is buried and more is classified. But mili-tary secrets aren’t the only ones kept in timesof war. In the new book “The Last Deployment”by Bronson Lemer, you’ll learn one of them.

Bronson Lemer was “probably the last per-son anyone expected to join the military.” But,as the oldest of six children, he wanted to getaway from North Dakota and “the army ... hap-pened to be at the right place at the righttime.”

Lemer was still in high school when hejoined the National Guard.

Five years later, on Jan. 20, 2003, his cellphone rang. Though he was months away fromgetting out of his Guard obligation and was“tired of it,” Lemer learned that he was beingdeployed. His “horrible decision” to join theNational Guard was turning into something he

never thought he’d have to worry about:Lemer was a gay soldier under a Don’t Ask,Don’t Tell policy.

But in going to Iraq, he knew he had tolearn to rely on his fellow soldiers, and viceversa. So he tried to relax as he traveled withthem to Colorado and, later that spring, to

Kosovo, then to Iraq. Lemer went along withthe jokes, the girlfriend talk, and the “adoles-cent” behavior. He participated in anythingthat banished the boredom of guard duty,building, cleaning duty, and outhouse duty. Heemailed a former love, and longed for home.

As a few months’ tour of duty stretchedinto a year, Lemer began to notice something:deployment was taking its toll on everybody.The men and women who left the States werenot the same people who came home fromIraq.

And neither was Lemer.Over the past decade, you’ve undoubtedly

seen lots of TV and read many words aboutthe War in Iraq. But just wait until you get yourhands on “The Last Deployment”...

Author Bronson Lemer’s memoir of being agay man in the military is half sass and halfsad with a few heart-pounding moments butno blood-and-guts. His story moves betweenidyllic memories of his growing up and warmfeelings for his bunkmates and co-soldiers,while readers are also placed in the center ofthe boredom of waiting, the frustration of notknowing, and the dismay of hiding in order tobe accepted. Lemer’s is a wonderfully descrip-tive, wryly humorous, heart-crushing story,and I couldn’t put it down.

With the repeal this month of Don’t AskDon’t Tell, this is timely and definitely worth aread. If you love a soldier, your country orboth, “The Last Deployment” is a book you’llwant to tell everybody about.

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