Nebraska author holding book signing at library

    Keith County native Andrew Pollock will be at Lied Imperial Public Library on Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. to sign copies of his book “The Snowbound Anthology.”
    Pollock will discuss his book and do a reading.
    He enjoys visiting with attendees to his events and listening to others’ stories about the Great Blizzard of 1949, which is the topic of his featured story.
    According to Pollock, all stories and essays in the anthology share a Nebraska setting.
    “One essay muses between the true story behind the fictionalized account of the 1949 blizzard,” Pollock said.
    Other stories in the collection are based on histories he has read, stories he’s heard from older Nebraskans and his own experiences.
    Also included in his book is a true story of an Ogallala Indian boy who came upon the aftermath of the massacre east of Oshkosh at Blue Water Creek in 1855. The boy later became known as Crazy Horse.
    The anthology collection also incorporates essays about music, a travelogue about Pollock camping and hiking with his son and a friend, and a fictional story written with respect to the historical 1873 Lakota and Pawnee battle in what’s now called Massacre Canyon near Trenton, he said.
    Growing up, Pollock went to a one-room country school through sixth grade.
    He eventually attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), receiving a Bachelor of Journalism, with distinction, in 1988 and a Juris Doctor Law degree, with distinction, in 1992.
    Pollock and his family live in rural Seward County, and he is a rural telecommunications lawyer with the Lincoln and Seward law firm of Rembolt Ludtke.
    Also to his credit, he is one of the founders of the Sandhills Marathon, started in 2007.
    The marathon has become an annual staple in Valentine in central Cherry County.
    Following the book’s release in Valentine, Pollock is appearing at Lied Imperial Public Library as one of several stops throughout the Panhandle and southwest Nebraska.
    In conjunction with the event, the Imperial Republican is donating a copy of Pollock’s book to the library.

 

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