Where in the World is The River By Starlight ?
37 states. 18 countries.
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Sailing off Isla de Luna with Sara Taylor
Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Heading up the largest flat-top mountain in the world with Bambi Rathman
Grand Mesa, Colorado
Alive, alive oh! With Molly Malone and Rebecca Clark-Bash in Merrion Square,
Dublin, Ireland
Morocco Edition! High in the the Atlas Mountains on the way to Casablanca with my inimitable friend Carolyn
Living history! Adam’s real-life great-grandnieces Heather and Ceora in Flagstaff, Arizona
This sculpture in Billings, Montana is the very embodiment of a little girl in the early pages of TheRiverByStarlight
At Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, where Ashley Sweeney reports that “Even Leonardo da Vinci recommends The River by Starlight.”
From Quilt Walk Park in Panguitch, Utah
Karen Sherman sends this extraordinary story of survival made possible by a quilt. During the winter of 1864, seven men traveled 40 miles through deep snow and extreme cold to get food to save their families from starvation. The only way they could traverse the impassable terrain was to lay down a quilt and walk on it, relaying it end over end until they reached their destination. All seven men, and therefore their colony, survived. The community today hosts a quilt walk each year.
From the Tree of Life in Jau, Bahrain
Leshay tells us “The roots go down over 50m. There’s scarcely any water sources or rain. Some say this is the original place of the Garden of Eden. How does the tree survive? Marvels of the world.”
Jake and Elwood Edition! Because ♫♬♫ everybody needs somebody to love ♬♫♬
“Hey Zeke, check this out! ‘They’d hiked four miles upriver, wading into a pocket where bass and walleye gathered.’ Road trip!”
Atlanta Botanical Garden
With the anti-slavery martyr La Muletresse Solitude
Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
With Whinney & Friends at the
Durango Railway Passenger Station, Colorado
In the mists of
Charmouth, England
The River by Starlight: it’s what’s for lunch in old San Antonio.
Chicago Botanical Garden with Linnaeus
“Never miss a good chance to shut up” (and read). ~Will Rogers
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Grand Central Station, New York
with Barbara Linn Probst
Que c’est beau! La Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière
Lyon, France
Summer reading recommendation from none other than Stuart Little.
Abilene, Texas Storybook Garden
Sweet shot of Pegasus reading the back cover of The River by Starlight–looking for those references to himself?
Tucson, Arizona
Riding the rails to Crazy Woman Creek
Durango, Colorado
Petra, Jordan
Thank you, Linda Hamati!
Flyin’ high in
Dayton, Ohio
Owerri, Nigeria
Thank you, Rebecca Clark-Bash
Newfound Lake, Bristol, New Hampshire
with historical novelist Janis Robinson Daly
Chicago, Chicago
That toddlin’ town!
Jaipur, India
with Rebecca Clark-Bash at the old city palace of the royal family.
Eugene, Oregon with Ken Kesey
Buddha does Boise, Idaho
with author Laurie Buchanan
Bali Bar Book Club, Merritt Island, Florida
grew so big, they had to split into two groups. So I got two wonderful evenings with readers of The River by Starlight and their thoughtful and incisive questions.
John Wayne and the Western Writers of America Spur Award winner for Best First Novel
Santa Ana, California
With Lady Science at the Boston Public Library
On the Portland Oregon Esplanade with Mayor Vera
The vibrant and vivacious Johnson clan, real-life descendants of Adam’s family
Apple Valley, Minnesota
With Lynn Bozzay at the famous Gateway Arch
St. Louis, Missouri
Shemanski Fountain, Portland Oregon
“Holy Ruth-at-the-well!” The cousins slap each other’s shoulders. “Forty years makin’ ice cream and we find out we’re in the wrong business.”
Speaking of ice cream . . .
Okinawa, Japan
Whale of a great beach read in
Depoe Bay, Oregon
Happy hour in
Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
Everyone reads!
Halloween in Boston, Massachusetts
McMinnville, Oregon with Ben
“Women are books, and men the readers be.” -Poor Richard.
“…saucer-sized cookies . . . ten one-cup ingredients . . . raisins and walnuts . . . chocolate bits . . . coconut . . . oatmeal . . . peanut butter . . . hey, Ma! Did you read Chapter 15?!”
Missoula, Montana
on the Clark Fork River
Jacksonville, Oregon with pioneer photographer Peter Britt
Yo! in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
with Rocky Balboa
Madison, Wisconsin
with Jaron Bernstein
Lagos, Nigeria with Rebecca Clark-Bash
William Clark reads about the river he named
Pompey’s Pillar, Montana
En route to Maui Hawaii with Carolyn A.
Lucy in a Suitcase Book Group of Ashland, Oregon just might be the best name ever.
Certainly some of the best reader-friends ever.
Thank you, dearling Anjie Reynolds!
Navesink River, Rumson, NJ
Beach read!
Studland, Dorset, England
A Canadian in Crete!
Among beautiful things in
Auckland, New Zealand
With Lisa Benton on the scene of a hotel fire,
Hebron Fire Protection District, Kentucky
With Rosa Parks in
Montgomery, Alabama
Gorgeous
Garden Valley, Idaho
On the waterfront at
Annapolis, Maryland
Family read!
Marshall, North Carolina
Beautiful reader in
Norfolk, Virginia
Otterly adorable in
Summerville, South Carolina
Chillin’ at
Icicle Creek, Washington
Aloha from the north shore of
Oahu, Hawaii
Dogwood time in
Knoxville, Tennessee
The River by Starlight Road Trip stops in
Fargo, North Dakota
Jaron and Hilary’s River by Starlight Road Trip stops at one of the book’s real-life settings, the
Milk River, Montana
Jaron and Hilary’s River by Starlight Road Trip at another of the book’s real-life settings,
Glasgow, Montana
Little Gunpowder Falls, Maryland
In Malibu, California
with the inimitably incandescent author Claire Fullerton
Beach re-read in
Montego Bay, Jamaica
With the peripatetic Karen Sherman in
Denio Junction, Nevada
Another beach re-read in
Santa Marta, Colombia
Hollywood!
Nation’s oldest happy hour?
Newport, Rhode Island
Big Foot is shocked to learn there are places “ever farther north, that have never been pierced by a tractor or train whistle, where he can remove himself from time.” ~in Sisters, Oregon