Author Heather Lende discusses the Local and Community in Small Town Alaska Politics
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Author Heather Lende is a dedicated member of the Haines community and serves on the Haines Borough Assembly. Since 1996, she regularly posts obituaries and a social column for the Chilkat Valley News. Her nationally acclaimed books: If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name (2006), Take Good Care of the Garden and Dogs (2011), and Find The Good Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-town Obituary Writer (2015) mirror her outlook on life.She is a graduate from Middlebury College and she earned a MFA degree from UAA. At the event she reads Learnuing Moments.
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