Every Wednesday night on Real Good Words, Heidi talks with authors about their writings.
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In some ways, Fish or Cut Bait describes this week's Realgoodwords where I talk with authors Ellen Airgood and Jim Proebstle. Proebstle is a northern Minnesota summer resident who has published a novel based on true events "Fatal Incident". He tells us the true life story and fictionalizes the reasonings and endings that were never uncovered before. In 1944 there was a crash in Alaska's Mount McKinley range that killed 20 people. The pilot, Nick, is a pilot for the Army's ATC in Alaska. In real life, the bodies and the documents surrounding this crash were never found. It's fascinating because Alaska was a strategic defense position against Japan as well as a lend-lease exchange location for Soviet pilots in support of Russia's war with Germany. Mix in a possibility of a plot to steal the U.S's top secret atomic bomb designs and you have what William Kent Krueger calls "a hell of a good read". Fish or Cut Bait here is the fortitude of the brothers who are pilots in the book, as well as the central love story that is woven throughout between Nick and Martha. Jim Proebstle will be at the Village Bookstore in Grand Rapids on Saturday June 18th from 11-2. Read the full description.
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