Judy Blunt Reads

"Jesus!" Jerking his hand from Jeanette's forehead, he looked up at me. "Does she need to go to town?"
"Can we get out?" I jiggled the baby, trying to get him to settle for a pacifier. Jeanette's temperature had shot to 105. The bathwater was running.

Thus began Judy Blunt's reading on Tuesday, March 28th, in the Nelson Performing Arts Auditorium. Her reading from the chapter "Winter Kill," in her autobiographical book Breaking Clean, mesmerized her audience, most of them westerners who immediately understood the deadly implications of a 105 degree temperature in a young child and a fifty mile night drive to the nearest hospital--with twenty of those miles on a dirt road turned into a bentonite gumbo by a steady rain. A lengthy and informative question and answer period followed the reading.


Blunt's reading was sponsored by the Northwest College Writers Series and Project Succeed, along with generous support from President Miles LaRowe. The final reading in the 2005-2006 Writers Series will be given by Mark Spragg on April 20th.