Joan Crosby
Long time Cook County News-Herald columnist Joan Crosby placed second in the 2020 Midwest Independent Book Awards.
Crosby was awarded a silver medal for her “Tucker Lake Chronicle” at the June 27 2020 Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA) awards via Facebook live watch party.
A panel of 99 MIPA volunteer judges narrowed the field to 88 finalists across 31 categories.
Tucker Lake Chronicle is the story of how Joan and Dick Crosby lived off the grid in a small makeshift cabin on Tucker Lake for 13 months. It was 1969 and the young couple had made the decision to leave their jobs and the Twin Cities behind and live with none of the comforts of a modern society. There were many trials by fire.
With no road leading to their cabin, which was on the edge of the BWCAW, they had to hike and canoe in and out in the summer and snowmobile (when it worked) or snowshoe to get supplies in the winter. Many of the stories in Joan’s book were taken from her long running “Over the Hill” column in the Cook County News-Herald.
Joan’s book is also a finalist for the 2020 Northeast Minnesota Book Awards, which was canceled and rescheduled for May 2021 when the 2021 awards will also be handed out.
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