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MYSTERY BUS TOUR

Hosted by Seaway Author - Maggie Wheeler

SEAWAY AUTHOR HOSTS HISTORY/MYSTERY BUS TOUR

FOR 50^th ANNIVERSARY

(Seaway Valley): Seaway mystery novelist Maggie Wheeler will host a special bus tour in honour of Celebration 50 this summer.

“I wanted to contribute an event to the celebrations this summer for the 50^th anniversary of the inundation of the Lost Villages,” explains Wheeler. “My readers have been asking where and what I would be doing with Celebration 50, so I came up with a chance to visit where the novels take place.”

The Farran Mackenzie History/Mystery Bus Tour.

The event, says Wheeler, will be an afternoon in the world of fictional amateur detective Farran Mackenzie. Participants will enjoy a historic and scenic three-hour bus tour through the landscape explored by Mackenzie in A Violent End, The Brother of Sleep , and All Mortall Things. Wheeler will entertain the passengers with novel bits and bites, author insights, and personal anecdotes of memorable moments in the last nine years with Farran Mackenzie. Also on board will be Mary Lynn Alguire, creator of the Lost Villages Bus Tour, to provide the historical component. The tour will end at the Nightingale House in Ingleside (Sterling House in All Mortall Things) for a tea in the garden hosted by owner Lesley O’Gorman, the good-sported model for the character of Mildred Keeps. During the tea, tours of Sterling House will be provided, and Wheeler will give a special reading from On a Darkling Plain (slated for publication in 2009). Ten percent of proceeds will be donated to the Lost Villages Historical Society.

The tour is set for Saturday, July 5th at 1:00 p.m.

Seating is limited to 40 participants.

Tickets are $42.00 per person and all bookings must be in advance, by June 21st. 

You may RSVP by telephone to Mary Lynn Alguire at 613-938-2848

or

via e-mail to Maggie Wheeler at maggie@maggiewheeler.com.

The regionally best-selling Farran Mackenzie mystery series has been instrumental in the growing movement to re-introduce and      re-examine the amazing history of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project of the 1950s.

“When I began work on the first novel,” says Wheeler, “it seemed that the history was somehow being lost outside the Seaway Valley. Most people were unaware that the greatest engineering project for North America in the 20^{th century happened right here on the St. Lawrence River.}

“The response to the novels as history and mystery’” Wheeler continues, “has been very rewarding. Since the publication of A Violent End in 2001, I have been continuously travelling to speak to all kinds of groups, agencies and, of course, classrooms about the special history of the Seaway and the Lost Villages. The bus tour is a great way to acknowledge Celebration 50, and take my work to a whole new level.

“And,” she adds, smiling, “it’s also going to be great fun.”

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