Longtime Saskatchewan author Candace Savage will be visiting the Weyburn Public Library on Wednesday, March 11th.

She will be doing a book reading of her "A Geography Of Blood" book with a discussion afterwords.

"I'm coming to Weyburn because of a project put on by the Saskatchewan Library Association," explained Candace Savage, Saskatchewan author. "Every year for the past four years they have selected one book that they think everyone in the province should read. It's called the One Book One Province Saskatchewan project. And this year, to my surprise and delight they chose one of my books 'A Geography Of Blood'. That book was published eight or nine years ago but it's still very current and relevant."

So what is "A Geography Of Blood" about?

"It's about my encounter with the Cypress Hills and the little town of Eastend," Savage told. "One way of describing it is to say that it tells the story of what I was required to learn by going back to that beautiful and evocative place over and over again throughout about a decade. Another way of describing it is to say that the book tells the story of how I learned a new way of understanding the history of Saskatchewan in the last one hundred and fifty years."

Why are the Cypress Hills so unique and special?

"It's a landscape that helps us to remember," answered Savage. "Because it's been there since the glaciers receded and before. There are even parts of the Cypress Hills that were never glaciated. It's this very ancient landscape and it's impregnated with dinosaur bones and prehistoric mammal bones. And then at higher levels closer to the surface there are all kinds of marks from people who have been there over the last hundred years as well as the last thousand years. And it was a very concentrated site of conflict between the advancing interests of Canada and the Indigenous people who were already here in the late 19th century. So it's a very dramatic story and a very personal one."

So where and when can people catch you in Weyburn?

"I'll be there on March 11th at the Weyburn Public Library," Savage stated. "From about 6:30 PM till 8 PM that evening we'll have readings and an important conversation. And I hope you will come."