Join us for our Speaker Series event featuring award-winning author John Maclean (son of Norman Maclean, The River Runs Through It) and his project Fishing into the Twilight, a substantial dive into the rewards and challenges of fly fishing in later years. 

Setting off on a quest in old age is, like second marriages, a triumph of hope over experience. But giving up a sport like fly fishing, which has a vital spiritual as well as physical side, is self-defeating. True, you can't carry on a strenuous sport the way you did in younger years. One challenge of old age, however, is to find new ways to do the things you love. Fly fishing in old age has many rewards. You know the good spots, have more time to fish them, and more money to get there and back. The talk will visit streams from the Blackfoot River in Montana to Penns Creek in Pennsylvania that are subjects of articles. The plan is to keep writing articles and make a book out of them, a triumph of hope over actuarial tables.

Monday, May 12, 2025
6:00PM-9:00PM

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Join us for a cocktail reception and discussion with award-winning journalist and author John N. Maclean. John N. is the son of author Norman Maclean who took the fly fishing world by storm in 1976 with his book A River Runs Through It. The discussion will complement the new Library exhibition, The Art of the Angle, a collection of original wood engravings used to illustrate three books on a fly-fishing theme by Norman Maclean, his son John N., and Ernest Hemingway. Maclean will introduce the engravings from A River Runs Through It, Home Waters, and Big Two-hearted River: The Centennial Edition, then discuss their creation and the links among them. 

Thursday, April 24, 2025
5:00PM-7:00PM

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Join us Wednesday June 9th at 6 p.m. in welcoming John N. Maclean for his book Home Waters. Which will release on June 1st. In Home Waters, Maclean returns to the Blackfoot River, made famous by his father in the novel A River Runs Through It. Beginning with his earliest memories of fly-fishing with his father on the river, Maclean passionately explores the history of his family's life in the region as they became well-respected members of the community and developed an abiding love for the land. Chronicling his family's love and connection with the Blackfoot River throughout history, Maclean meditates on four generations of Macleans and their connection with the river and fly-fishng. Maclean will be in conversation with Andy Weiner an avid fly-fisher and the author of the award-winning children’s fly fishing book Down By the River.

Wednesday, June 9, 2021
6:00pm PT

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