Book Launch: Naomi Yaeger for Blooming Hollyhocks

Tue, 28 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm UTC-05:00

Wussow's Concert Cafe | Duluth

Zenith Bookstore
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Book Launch: Naomi Yaeger for Blooming Hollyhocks
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Join Zenith Bookstore and Wussow’s Concert Cafe for the launch of Naomi Yaeger’s new book Blooming Hollyhocks: Tales of Joy During Hard Times on Tuesday, October 28th, 6:30 pm at Wussow’s. Naomi will sit down with award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover to talk about storytelling, resilience, and the ties that bind communities together. As a special treat, Naomi’s husband, Terry Larson, will bring a bit of the era to life on his banjo with some American folk favorites. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
“If you enjoy reading historical fiction or narrative nonfiction the style of Laura Ingalls Wilder, or Earl Hammer, Jr, who wrote Spenser’s Mountain, the inspiration of the TV show The Waltons, you likely will enjoy my book, Blooming Hollyhocks: Tales of Joy During Hard Times." – Naomi Yaeger
Blooming Hollyhocks brings us to a small Minnesota prairie town in the 1930s and 40s, Janette Minehart enjoyed the bonds of love, faith, family and community. She witnessed the struggles of the Great Depression and the upheaval of World War II. Her father worked as a telegrapher at the railroad depot, and her mother raised five children.
Naomi Yaeger is a Duluth-based writer, reporter, editor, and Earthkeeper with deep roots in Midwest storytelling. She began her journalism career in high school, writing for “The Teen Scene” in the Grand Forks Herald, and later earned degrees from the University of North Dakota. She has worked as a reporter in small towns across North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa, and her work has appeared in the Duluth Budgeteer, The Hillsider, Thunderbird Review, and, nowadays, in Duluthian, Positively Superior and Northern Wilds magazines. In 2016, she was commissioned as an Earthkeeper by the United Methodist Church, a mission she carries forward by writing about environmental issues. A member of Lake Superior Writers and the Wisconsin Writers Association, Naomi lives in Duluth, Minnesota, where she enjoys the outdoors with her husband and their dog.
Linda LeGarde Grover is the author of A Song over Miskwaa Rapids and Gighigami Hearts, among many other award-winning books. Her work is rooted in the people, history and landscapes of northern Minnesota. Linda is professor emerita of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.
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