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Timm to retrace father's footsteps Nov. 5 at PCPL
The Putnam County Public Library will host a special ArtsFest event on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m., featuring playwright and DePauw University Professor of Theatre Steve Timm.
Timm will perform his monologue "In My Father's Wild" with musical accompaniment by Jennifer Peacock, a DePauw junior and School of Music major.
When going through his father's effects after his death, Timm found an envelope with his name on it. Inside the envelope were maps from a trip his father took in 1969 with other men through the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota.
Timm decided to retrace the trip partly to come to terms with his father's passing, and partly to discover something about his father's fascination with the North Country.
In this performance piece Timm discovers connections between he and his father that span a 40-year quest from childhood to adulthood through some of the most remote and wild places of the mind and of landscapes.
Timm is the author of nearly 30 produced plays, and has traveled and written extensively about the remote canyons of Utah and Arizona, the Boundary Waters, and most recently, Florida's Everglades.
His screenplay, "Reparation," co-written with Kyle Ham and based on Timm's play "The Activist," will be filmed in Putnam County next summer.