June 22, 2024
Special guest appearance with authors Grace Ly and Marty Ohlhaut
Saturday, June 22, 2024, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Tent For Seven
By Grace Ly and Marty Ohlhaut
Authors Grace Ly and Marty Ohlhaut will be in the store signing books and visiting with customers on Saturday, June 22, 2024.
About the Book:
Marty Ohlhaut loved the great outdoors, and he loved his family. Long hours at work had kept him away from both, so he was excited about taking off with his wife and five children for the Canadian Rockies. Now that his kids were getting older, he knew this might be their last camping trip together, and he wanted it to be extra
memorable. But as soon as they arrived, everything started going wrong. From overcrowded campgrounds and contaminated water to close encounters with red ants and bears, they experienced one problem after another. Then when tragedy struck, Marty suddenly had to face the possible loss of a loved one. With the help of mysterious strangers in one of the world’s most beautiful, vast locations, he fought to keep his family alive and his sanity intact.
Thirty years later, he shares the story of that ill-fated vacation in collaboration with his daughter Grace Ly. Through candor and wit reminiscent of Bill Bryson, Tent for Seven captures both the grandeur and the dangers of the wilderness as Marty learned just how much his wife and children meant to him—and how fragile life could be.
Nia Imani at The Bookhouse
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Jeffrey L. Smith received a BA degree in Public Administration from Elon University. In 1986 he returned to
Paul is a Winston-Salem native, a graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School and Wake Forest University, where he got his first taste of the media as an announcer for the student-run station, WAKE Radio. He has earned advanced degrees in liberal arts and journalism/mass communications from Johns Hopkins University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Paul has worked as a journalist for 30 years. Locally he has worked for The High Point Enterprise, the News & Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal. Paul has been affiliated with 88.5 FM WFDD, public radio for the Piedmont and High Country, for the last 10 years. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor of the practice in Journalism at Wake Forest University.