VERMILLION — Charles Nauman and Jerry 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 follow the reading. The event is free and open to the public. “Pola: The Mysterious Communications of a Gone Woman,” is Charles Nauman’s first novel. His narrative, set in the Black Hills, ex- plores the corrosive impact of violence on the mind and the struggle of Pola to over- come the traumatic assassination of a man she deeply loved. Influenced by Nauman’s own experience living in the Black Hills and doing art therapy with film in mental health centers, the book offers a vi- sion of healing through the sympathetic work of a psy- chotherapist who strives to understand a woman’s way of thinking and her need for nature’s healing. Nauman is a film maker as well as an au- thor of prose and poetry. His novel bears some resem- blance to his film “Johnny Vik” (honored at Cannes, Lo- carno and the Prix L’Age D’Or in Brussels). Among his other films are “Tatonka,” an American Film Festival Blue Ribbon winner and the “Critic’s Choice” for a BBC-TV reprise; and “Tarahumara: Festival of the Easter Moon” (selected for several international festi- vals including Bilan du film ethnographique, Musee de l’Homme, Paris. Nauman and his wife, Grete Bodøgaard, a tapestry artist, share a live-in studio in Yankton County. “Blackjacks and Blue Dev- ils” is Jerry Wilson’s first book of fiction. Born in Okeene, Okla., near the Cheyenne-Arapaho land his great-grandfathers took in the Run of 1892, Wilson grew up roaming Oklahoma’s blackjack 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 some of the seeds and settings for his stories. Wilson, who has lived in South Dakota for more than 30 years, has worked as a univer- sity professor, as managing editor of South Dakota Magazine, and currently serves as a Clay County commissioner. His earlier books include “American Artery: A Pan American Journey” and “Waiting for Coyote’s Call: An Eco-memoir of the Missouri River Bluff.” He and his wife Norma Wilson, a poet, live in a geo-solar house they built in rural Ver- million. The event is sponsored by Vermillion Area Arts Council. Friday, 9.16.11 ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net RIVER CITY: [email protected] 2B PRESS DAKOTAN river city MMC’s ‘Paddlefish’ Is Now Available The fifth annual issue of Mount Marty College's national literary journal “Paddlefish” is now avail- able. The current issue includes stories, essays and poetry from award-winning authors such as George Bilgere, Amanda Bradley, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, James Cih- lar, Richard Robbins, and David Lee amongst others. Subscribing to “Paddlefish” will enable Mount Marty College to continue to publish future issues. Copies are also available for purchase in the Mount Marty cam- pus bookstore. To purchase a copy of the 2011 journal or to subscribe to the 2012 “Paddlefish,” send $12 to: Mount Marty College, c/o PADDLEFISH, 1105 W 8th Street, Yankton, SD 57078. Make checks payable to Mount Marty College (Paddlefish in memo line). Back issues of the 2007, 2008, and 2010 “Paddlefish” are also available. Specify which issue you are ordering or if you are inter- ested in a subscription. The submission period for the next “Paddlefish” will be Nov. 1, 2011-Feb. 29, 2012. No previously published work will be accepted. “Paddlefish” is a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. Parking Restrictions Set For RibFest There will be no parking in the RibFest Event Area on Third Street from east of the alley between Broadway and Cedar Street to Douglas Avenue, east of the Dou- glas Avenue and Third Street inter- section until Capitol Street, and north of Third Street on Walnut Street from 3 a.m. Sept. 17 until approximately midnight of the same date. Remove your vehicle prior to this time. Call 605-760-4696 or visit www.historicdowntownyankton.co m for more information. Old-Time Tunes At Gayville Hall Sept. 17 GAYVILLE — Gayville Hall presents “An Evening of American Popular Songs: 1900-1949,” star- ring John and Susan McNeill, Gary Lewis and Dave Napier, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, September 17, in Gayville. The show will feature tunes from bygone times that many re- member fondly, including “Bill Bai- ley” (1902) and “Wabash Cannonball” (1904) through “Back in the Saddle Again,” “Sioux City Sue,” and “Get your Kicks on Route 66” from the 1940s. The McNeills, of Springfield, have been the musical hosts at Gayville Hall since 2001. They sing and play guitar, bass, harmonica, and drums. Lewis, on 4-string banjo, and Napier, on baritone and other sax- ophones, are both from Sioux City. Gayville Hall is located at 502 Washington Street in Gayville. Call 605-267-2859 for ticket informa- tion. YCTC Auditions Set For Sept. 22-23 The Yankton Children’s Theatre Company is holding auditions for its upcoming production of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” on Sept. 22-23 at the old Elks Build- ing, 407 Walnut. Auditions are set for 6-9 p.m. Performance dates will be Nov. 25-27, which is Thanksgiving weekend. This will be a family production so YCTC will be auditioning actors from ages 4 to 80. There will be cold readings from the script as well as singing a Christmas carol. For more information, call 605 660-6414. ADULT BOOKS • The Burning Soul by John Connolly; Fiction • Dark Predator by Christine Feehan; Fiction • End of Days by Robert Glea- son; Fiction • The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield; Fiction • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh; Fiction • The Mercy by Beverly Lewis; Fiction • Murder on Sister’s Row by Victoria Thompson; Fiction • New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb; Fiction • Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden; Fiction • 1105 Yakima Street by Deb- bie Macomber; Fiction • The Perfect Suspect by Mar- garet Coel; Fiction • Plugged by Eoin Colfer; Fic- tion • Prey by Linda Howard; Fic- tion • The Race by Clive Cussler; Fiction • The Storm at the Door by Stefan Merrill Block; Fiction • The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams; Fiction • Twenty Thirty by Albert Brooks; Fiction • In My Time by Dick Cheney; Nonfiction YOUNG ADULT BOOKS • Demon Glass by Rachel Hawkins; Fiction • Evernight by Claudia Gray; Fiction • Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins; Fiction • I Am J by Chris Beam; Fic- tion • Red Moon Rising by Peter Moore; Fiction • The Sky Is Every Where by Jandy Nelson; Fiction • Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead; Fiction JUNIOR BOOKS • The Black Heart Crypt by Christ Grabenstein; Fiction • Here Lies Linc by Delia Ray; Fiction • Liar, Liar by Gary Paulsen; Fiction • Mudshark by Gary Paulsen; Fiction • Wolves of the Beyond, Books 1-3 by Kathryn Lasky; Fic- tion EASY BOOKS • Presenting Talllulah by Tori Spelling; Fiction New At The Library Here’s what’s new at the Yankton Community Library this week: “The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Ham- mer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq” by Bronson Lemer; © 2011, Uni- versity of Wisconsin Press; 223 pages ——— BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER They’ve become as familiar to you as your own living room: auditoriums filled with uni- formed, spine-straight soldiers on their way to 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, you can bet that the first group is wondering what the second group has seen. They may never know, though, because much is buried and more is classified. But mili- tary secrets aren’t the only ones kept in times of 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 get away from North Dakota and “the army ... hap- pened to be at the right place at the right time.” Lemer was still in high school when he joined the National Guard. Five years later, on Jan. 20, 2003, his cell phone rang. Though he was months away from getting out of his Guard obligation and was “tired of it,” Lemer learned that he was being deployed. His “horrible decision” to join the National 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 to learn to rely on his fellow soldiers, and vice versa. So he tried to relax as he traveled with them to Colorado and, later that spring, to Kosovo, then to Iraq. Lemer went along with the jokes, the girlfriend talk, and the “adoles- cent” behavior. He participated in anything that banished the boredom of guard duty, building, cleaning duty, and outhouse duty. He emailed a former love, and longed for home. As a few months’ tour of duty stretched into a year, Lemer began to notice something: deployment was taking its toll on everybody. The men and women who left the States were not the same people who came home from Iraq. And neither was Lemer. Over the past decade, you’ve undoubtedly seen lots of TV and read many words about the War in Iraq. But just wait until you get your hands on “The Last Deployment”... Author Bronson Lemer’s memoir of being a gay man in the military is half sass and half sad with a few heart-pounding moments but no blood-and-guts. His story moves between idyllic memories of his growing up and warm feelings for his bunkmates and co-soldiers, while readers are also placed in the center of the boredom of waiting, the frustration of not knowing, and the dismay of hiding in order to be 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 Ask Don’t Tell, this is timely and definitely worth a read. If you love a soldier, your country or both, “The Last Deployment” is a book you’ll want to tell everybody about. 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