Mollie Verret Verdin
January 17, 2007
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“Between the gunwales of a small wooden bateau, a boy grows, learns the things that define a life, and sets out on a voyage of discovery in disdain for this watery world, yet returns at last to the sanctuary and peace within it.”
— From “Native Waters: A Few Moments in a Small Boat,” by Roger Emile Stouff
Author and journalist Roger Emile Stouff will visit the West End Branch Library in Baldwin Jan. 25 to autograph copies of his book, “Native Waters: A Few Moments in a Small Wooden Boat.”
The autograph session will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Native Waters is a story of Native American legacy, Acadian heritage, of wooden boats and fly-fishing. It includes ghosts thousands of years old, ancient spirits and ancestral creatures, according to the author.
The story is part autobiographical, part retrospective of Stouff’s people and part outdoorsman memoirs.
The book gained Stouff the attention of the OLN network, which featured him in two episodes of “Fly Fishing America” on the TV channel.
The author is currently seeking a publisher for a “Native Waters” sequel titled “The Way of Memory.” His is also working on a dark short story collection entitled, “Chasing Thunderbirds,” which Souff says is “not at all like anything people have ever read by me.”
The short story collection includes illustrations by Gary Drinkwater, many of which will be on display during next Thursday’s book signing.
The son of Nicholas Leonard Stouff Jr., the last chief of the state’s Chitimacha Tribe, and Lydia Marie Gaudet Stouff, the author has been a journalist for 25 years. He pens an award-winning column, “From the Other Side,” in a St. Mary and Franklin newspaper.
Also on display at the St. Mary Parish Library is the Smithsonian’s Key Ingredients: America By Food. It will be in town through Feb. 15.
For a complete list of Smithsonian project events, contact the library at (337) 923-6205.
