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Author: carlnordgren

Jul 25, 2014
in West of Ireland
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Behind The 53rd Parallel: The Quiet Man & The Village of Cong

My family and I fell in love with Ireland the three or four times we vacationed there and found ourselves so captivated by the West of Ireland that we arranged to live there for a year. We rented a house in Galway and spent as much time in Connemara as we could. Another favorite destination was the village of Cong. [caption id="attachment_538" align="aligncenter" width="682"] The Monk's Fishing House in Cong, photo by Ciaran Mchugh[/caption] The ruins of the 13th century Augustinian abbey are considered some of the finest examples of medieval architecture in the country; the abbey was home to Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland. The village is also a main location for the John Ford film, The Quiet Man,...

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Jul 14, 2014
in Ojibway Chief Stories
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Tales from an Ojibway Chief: Steve and Minogi

"Tales from an Ojibway Chief” is a long running series on Carl’s blog, focusing on the real adventures, conversations, and stories between Carl and Steve Fobister, an Ojibway chief, during Carl’s time as a fishing guide on Ojibway lands. Read Part 1 of the series and find out what Steve had to say about the Redskins Controversy, and be sure to follow Carl on Twitter @carlnordgren for the latest in this series. A few years back as I was starting a new business that would package what I was learning to do in my Duke classrooms; I had figured out how to help students grow their creative capacities and develop their entrepreneurial instincts. I was considering developing a business...

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Jul 07, 2014
in Book News
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Anung at the Museum of Ojibwa Culture

What a gift. It seems almost too good to be true. The second novel of mine that Light Messages is publishing this year is Anung's Journey and the Museum of Ojibwa Culture wants us to launch the book there, in St. Ignace, Michigan, on the Upper Peninsula side of the Straights of Mackinac, during a two day event, August 21st and 22nd. This book tells the story of the Ojibwa orphan Anung and his vision quest to find the greatest chief of all the people, a journey that takes place "in the days before the white man came to Turtle Island". As he travels east he meets other Indian tribes--he is outfitted for winter by Oddawa traders and he participates...

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Jun 30, 2014
in Ojibway Chief Stories
by carlnordgren
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Tales from an Ojibway Chief: Steve and the Redskins

"Tales from an Ojibway Chief" is a long running series on Carl's blog, focusing on the real adventures, conversations, and stories between Carl and Steve Fobister, an Ojibway chief, during Carl's time as a fishing guide on Ojibway lands. Follow Carl on Twitter @carlnordgren for the latest in this series. There are very few folks who have had the profound impact on my life that Steve Fobister has had. We worked together for four summers in the late 60's on the English River, and he and his family clan introduced me to Ojibway culture and customs. Steve is very sick from the mercury poisoning that is just one of the tragedies that have befallen the Ojibway of Grassy Narrows Reserve over...

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Jun 24, 2014
in Book News
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Win a signed copy of The 53rd Parallel

I am delighted by the initial reader response to The 53rd Parallel. It makes me all the more eager to get my novel into more hands and so I was delighted when recently I was approached by Kevin Qian with the offer to help with my social media and digital marketing. Kevin and I met when he took a couple of classes from me at Duke and he has been doing great work building web sites and promoting them for clients for the past couple of years. Kevin has recommended that we kick start the building of my Twitter followers @carlnordgren by running a quick promotion. So on July 1st we will give away three signed copies of my...

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Jun 03, 2014
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Excited and a bit nervous

During my entrepreneurial decades I made well over 100 investor pitches and raised millions of dollars for a big handful of start-ups. I was always excited, but never nervous. I have taught classes at Duke for 12 years, with over 2,000 students, helping them become the most creative and entrepreneurial versions of themselves they can be, and the success of that work has taken me to dozens of other schools and countless speaking gigs including a couple of TEDx's and conference keynotes. In anticipation I was always excited, am always excited, but never nervous. I was just invited to be a guest on 'The State of Things', on WUNC, on Thursday the 5th, to talk about The...

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May 17, 2014
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Anung and Brita Wolf

The ancient Ojibway legend about Anung was told to me by Steve Fobister. He asked me to popularize it, and this summer Light Messages will be publishing a novella about Anung's Great Adventures that I wrote hoping to fulfill Steve's request. It is a magical story, one that would certainly benefit from illustrations, and Elizabeth Turnbull, the book's editor, hired Brita Wolf, my daughter, for the task. Brita is a very talented artisan and designer and for the past few years has been amazing us with her paper cuttings. She has prepared ten of them for Anung, each one so wonderfully graceful and pure, and I thought you'd appreciate the sort of magic her images will bring to the story.  Creative...

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May 12, 2014
in Book News
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Marie, my wife, is reading The 53rd Parallel

She started yesterday, after our early morning bike ride.  I walked into the living room and there she was, reading my book. Later I found her in her office, reading my book. I couldn't believe it. I had never seen anyone read a book I wrote, and here I saw the most important person in my life, reading my book.  After our Mother's Day brunch she picked it back up again, and all day long she read my book.  She knew something about the stories, of course, but had never read the book.  I was fascinated by how uplifted I felt each time I walked into the room and saw her reading it. Thanks honey.  I hope you had as nice...

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May 06, 2014
in Book News
by carlnordgren
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In two days I get to be a novelist.

It's been my lifelong ambition, to be a novelist. When I was five I wanted to be a  cowboy. Soon after, and until the age of around 15 or 16, I wanted to be the shortstop for the Chicago Cubs.  It was about that same time I decided I wanted to be, that I needed to be, a novelist. It's finally going to happen.  On May 8th my publisher, Light Messages, will officially release my first novel, The 53rd Parallel, the first of The River of Lakes Trilogy, and I will toast myself and call myself a novelist. And yes, I still want to be a cowboy.  And oh my, what a great novel it would make when the 62 year old...

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I want to thank all the folks who have been so important to my writing. My wife, Marie, and my three daughters, Sarah Rose, Brita, and Krista Anne. Steve Fobister. Elizabeth Turnbull. Robin Metz. Kevin Qian. And my father, Loran Nordgren.

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