INTERACTIVE BOOK READING WITH HILLTOWN SLEDDOGS MEET & GREET

Local author Marla BB will read from her book while its illustrations are projected on the big screen for the audience to follow along and enjoy. A question and answer session will follow. Come meet the Hilltown Sleddogs Team in the Rainbow Room after the reading.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

"We're going to Alaska! Pass it down the lane. We're going to Alaska, from where our grandmother came..."

This is the tale of the Hilltown Sleddogs' journey across North America to the motherland of mushing, Alaska. They traveled by truck and trailer for 7 days. They trained in temperatures from 35 to 55 degrees below zero for 7 weeks. Finally on a frigid day in February 2020 this team of 12 Alaskan Huskies and their dog driver set out to mush 750 miles across the frozen Yukon River and Bering Sea, camping outside for 3 weeks on their way to Nome. From the eyes & ears of the Hilltown Sleddogs we bring you, Our Serum Run Story by the T's, U's, V's & Me!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Marla BB, once known as New York City’s Sassy Mama Blues Singer, became a Martial Artist and Self Defense Teacher, then a Mama and finally, a Musher!
After a decade of raising 24 Alaskan Huskies and 1 daughter in the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts, Marla realized her dream of bringing her own sled dog team to mush the 750 mile Serum Run Trail across Alaska!

When she started Hilltown Sleddogs, racing was her passion! With a wheeled rig on dry land and sled on snow, Marla raced across North America and Sweden. Touring was her business. Thousands of hands of campers and clients have pet, hugged, and loved the Hilltown Sled Dogs. Sled Dog Camps and empowering youth became her mission! Campers became jr. handlers, camp counselors even racers.

"My sled dogs are my family, my daughters’ canine siblings, my work companions and the reason I go to bed feeling loved and wake up with a howl in my heart!" - Marla BB