John Maclean draws record crowd

SEELEY LAKE – The rows of chairs set up in the Double Arrow Homestead Pavilion quickly filled with people. An overflow crowd clustered around the sides of the pavilion in chairs they brought from home. Another group set their home-brought chairs in the shade of a line of trees. They had no real hope of seeing the guest author but trusted the large loudspeakers would at least carry his words to them.

Who was the man able to draw this crowd of more than 180 people? On Sept. 5, under the auspices of Alpine Artisans' Open Book Club, John Norman Maclean, former newspaper reporter and author of five...

 

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