Mimbres children's author to read at library

Award-winning Mimbres author, Beth Hodder, will read from her books, The Ghost of Schafer Meadows and Stealing the Wild from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday May 21 at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave. Hodder will sell and personally sign books during the reading. The Ghost of Schafer Meadows was the winner of a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award, and Stealing the Wild was published in 2010. Both books aimed at middle grade readers provide a glimpse into contemporary life at Schafer Meadows, in Montana, a U.S. Forest Service wilderness ranger station that has remained much as it was in the early 1900s. Hodder worked for more than 25 years for the Flathead National Forest in northwest Montana. Her husband, Al Koss, was the wilderness ranger at the Schafer Meadows Ranger Station for 13 years. Hodder and her husband live in Mimbres and Montana...more