March 2025
March 5th 6pm
Indie Press Book Club
We're so excited to discuss this beautiful book in March! As a special treat, Laura Pritchett is joining us via Zoom for the first part of the discussion!
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About the Book:
When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety—resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the burning planet. Playing with (Wild)fire is a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant application-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for a wildfire; a burned mountain’s conversation with a lone woman and an injured bear.
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Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche and life, and how destruction can lead to renewal.
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About the Press:
Founded in 2010 and a nonprofit since 2015, Torrey House Press is the only nonprofit publishing house in the Intermountain West. With more than 70 titles to date, THP seeks to inform, expand, and reshape the dialogue on environmental justice and stewardship for the natural world by elevating diverse perspectives through the literary arts.
Torrey House Press publishes books at the intersection of the literary arts and environmental advocacy. THP authors explore the diversity of human experiences and relationships with place. THP books create conversations about issues that concern the American West, landscape, literature, and the future of our ever-changing planet, inspiring action toward a more just world.
THP believes that lively, contemporary literature is at the cutting edge of social change. They seek to inform, expand, and reshape the dialogue on environmental justice and stewardship for the natural world by elevating literary excellence from diverse voices.
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For more information on our book club, visit our book club page, here.
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March: All Month Long
Featured Artist:
Joe Horvath
Joe Horvath is our featured artist for March! Join us on March 6th from 4pm - 6pm for a come-and-go artist reception to meet and talk with Joe about his work.
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His work will be up in the store all through the month!
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Joe Horvath’s current work is wildlife and landscape in oils. He most often paints the larger animals, often focusing on their interaction with their natural habitats. His landscapes are typically places he has visited in the Western United States.
Recently, he has started to pay more attention to the personalities of smaller animals. Of his process, he writes, “When I encounter an animal, I make eye contact and we evaluate each other. I try to show that mutual perception in my work. In my work, I see animals emerge as individuals, my paintings as portraiture.”
He spends a lot of time photographing, sketching and painting his impressions of the natural environment.
Horvath was taken all over the US in his time in the Air Force. It was his time in the West, however, that most captured his imagination. He writes, “My years in the Rocky Mountains, spending time in the high country and wilderness, provided a deep bond with animals and helped me tune to nature’s rhythms.”
Teaching middle school and high school science, math, and art left part of his summer each year to paint and frame work for shows in Montana and Colorado, and once to serve as a docent at the Great Falls home and studio of Charles M. Russell.
Horvath’s paintings have been exhibited in Helena, Montana, and in a number of locations in Colorado (Fort Collins, Denver, Florence, Alamosa, Monte Vista, Salida, and Westcliffe). He is an associate member of Oil Painters of America. In 2022 he was listed as a Runner-Up in Southwest Art Magazine’s Artistic Excellence Competition.
March 9th: 12:30 PM
Scott Weidensaul
Scott Weidensaul is the keynote speaker at the Monte Vista Crane Festival this year, and the Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is thrilled to have him for a reading and signing as well.
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If you're going to the Crane Fest, you'll have a chance for a book signing from 10:00am - 11:00am, and chance to hear Scott's keynote presentation at 7:00pm. You can purchase your tickets here.
We're excited, too, to host Scott at the Narrow Gauge for a short reading and signing on March 9th at 12:30pm.
We'll be at the Crane Fest selling Scott's book for the signing and before the keynote, but you can also purchase your copy ahead if you'd like to get started on reading it!
About the book:
Even as scientists make astounding discoveries about the navigational and physiological feats that enable migratory birds to cross immense oceans or fly above the highest mountains, go weeks without sleep or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch, humans have brought many migrants to the brink. Based on his bestselling new book "A World on the Wing," author and researcher Scott Weidensaul takes you around the globe -- with researchers in the lab probing the limits of what migrating birds can do, to the shores of the Yellow Sea in China, the remote mountains of northeastern India where tribal villages saved the greatest gathering of falcons on the planet, and the Mediterranean, where activists and police are battling bird poachers -- to learn how people are fighting to understand and save the world's great bird migrations.
About the author:
Scott Weidensaul is the author of nearly 30 books on natural history, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist "Living on the Wind" and his latest, the New York Times bestseller "A World on the Wing." Weidensaul is a contributing editor for Audubon and writes for a variety of other publications, including Bird Watcher's Digest and Living Bird. He is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society and an active field researcher, studying saw-whet owl migration for more than 25 years, as well as winter hummingbirds in the East, bird migration in Alaska, and the winter movements of snowy owls through Project SNOWstorm, which he co-founded. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife.
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March 15th: 6 PM
Spadefoot Story Slam
Each month, we host the Spadefoot Story Slam community, sharing stories based on a theme, selected at the previous month’s Slam. While inspired by the Moth Story Hour, our monthly meetings are not a contest, but instead are a way to come together and practice sharing, and deep listening.
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Join us 3/15 Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative for your stories on BUGS. Creepy crawlers and critters, favorite insects, bed bugs, or stories of pet peeves. What gets under your skin?
Stories must be true, as remembered by you & stories must be shared from the heart, not off the page.
Note: The incredible willow spider sculpture is by Allison Cruse, the February artist of the month.
As always, we encourage creative interpretation of the theme! Stories should be true as remembered by you, and spoken from the heart, instead of read from the page. We look forward to seeing you!
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March 21st: 6 PM
An Evening with Patricia Eagle
Celebrate the release of Patricia Eagle’s new book, a heartfelt memoir about how dogs can help us learn to listen better, trust and be trusted, and nurture one another.
Join us for snacks, a reading, Q&A, and book signing!
RSVP here or at this link so we can best prepare: https://forms.gle/mpbdcAbxC7Gz29Hf6
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You can reserve a copy of the book through the Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative to be sure you have one in time for the release!
March 29th
Rio Grande State of the Basin Symposium
We're excited to provide books for sale for Kevin Fedarko's keynote at the Rio Grande State of the Basin Symposium at Adams State University.
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You'll be able to find Narrow Gauge booksellers at the symposium starting after lunch and up through the end of the keynote event.
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To register for the event, follow the QR code, or go here, to this form.
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If you'll be attending online, feel free to reach out to us to order a copy of A Walk in the Park.