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Join In The Journey

Don't miss this opportunity to share their incredible experiences of traveling to far places. The Journey Series
is sponsored by the Des Moines Public Library Foundation with financial support from Wells Fargo, coordinated with assistance from HarperCollins Publishing, the Duncan Entertainment Group, and the Iowa Council for International Understanding

		Chip Duncan Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 PM - Central Library Chip Duncan, a native of Shenandoah, IA, began his film company in 1984 with plans to produce independent documentaries and feature films. That same year, Duncan and his writing partner sold their first two fictional stories to the CBS remake of The Twilight Zone. Since 1985, The Duncan Group, has produced more than forty films and currently has several IMAX/Large Format films in development.
Duncan's essays appear frequently in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His first book, The Magic Never Ends - The Life & Work of CS Lewis, was published in 2001. He plans to discuss his newest book, Enough to Go Around: Searching for Hope in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Darfur.

		Kevin Connolly Tuesday, March 2, 6:30 PM - Central Library Kevin is an amazing young photographer who will share his experiences traveling all over the world on a skateboard in his memoir, Doubletake. Born without legs, Kevin was otherwise a healthy baby and grew up like any other Montana kid. Kevin used his success as a professional skier to fund his international work on a project called, The Rolling Exhibition and in October of 2007, gave his first public presentation on the series. Since then, The Rolling Exhibition has been featured on ABC, BBC, NPR, and media outlets around the world. The Rolling Exhbition website

		Steven Roberts Monday, March 8, 6:30 PM - Central Library New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist and well-respected commentator Steven V. Roberts has always been fascinated by his grandparents’ migration to America from the Old World nearly one hundred years ago, and he traced their story in his stirring memoir My Fathers’ Houses. In his latest book, From Every End of this Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America, he explores the contemporary immigrant experience and shares the accounts and voices of thirteen families who are following in the footsteps of his ancestors. Roberts has been a journalist for more than forty years, working at the New York Times and U.S. News & World Report. He and his wife, television journalist and author Cokie Roberts, coauthored the New York Times bestseller From This Day Forward.

		Tori Murden McClure Tuesday, March 23, 6:30 PM - Central Library In June 1998, McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. Within days she lost all communication with shore, but nevertheless she decided to keep going. Not only did she lose the sound of a friendly voice, she lost updates on the location of the Gulf Stream and on the weather. Unfortunately for Tori, 1998 is still on record as the worst hurricane season in the North Atlantic. In a thrilling story of high adventure and romantic quest entitled, A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean, Tori McClure shares that the most important thing in life is not to prove you are superhuman but to fully to embrace your own humanity.
Tori Murden McClure currently serves as the vice president for external relations, enrollment management, and student affairs at Spalding University. Her firsts include being the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic and to ski overland to the South Pole. She has worked as a chaplain at Boston City Hospital and for Muhammad Ali at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky.