Ron Ellis Book Signing

Northern Kentuckian Ron Ellis will be signing his new book, Yonder: Tales from an Outdoor Life, this Sunday, August 21, 2-4 p.m at Behringer-Crawford Museum.

Ellis, a retired Northern Kentucky University Assistant Vice President for Advancement from 1975 to 2001, studied under noted environmentalist and writer Rick Bass. Of Yonder, Ellis notes: “Yonder is a collection of new and selected stories gathered over many seasons spent with friends in the woods and on the waters. These are tales and sketches about treasured friends and places, wild birds and bright fish, and, if we were very lucky, occasional brushes with wonder and magic in the wild places we liked best.”

In a beautifully written foreword for the book, author Robert DeMott comments: “A slice of paradise, Ron suggests, is within our grasp because, the yonder toward which we journey is never that far away if only we look properly. Even our backyard postage stamp of ponds or fields can be yonder, too, in the right frame of mind. The best part is that like Ron you don’t necessarily have to travel long distances to find that place.”

Ellis is also the author of the popular Cogan’s Woods and Brushes with Nature: The Art of Ron van Gilder and edited Of Woods and Water: A Kentucky Outdoors Reader. Find out more about him and his work at ron-ellis.com.