Presentation with Author Paul Boor

Free and Open to all

Local Author Paul Boor!

The history of the Adirondack ice-harvesting industry provides the backdrop for author and scientist Dr. Paul Boor’s historical thriller, The Ice Merchant. Boor, who was raised in the Mohawk Valley and Adirondack region, will discuss his newly published novel and read selections from his poetry collection at the Old Forge Library on Thursday, October 15, at 5 p.m.
Set in the late 1800s, The Ice Merchant follows the region’s thriving ice trade while exploring the beginnings of scientific research and the disturbing practice of obtaining human bodies for dissection in medical schools. Boor will share the story behind the novel, discuss the historical and scientific elements woven into it, and answer questions from the audience.

Boor will also read selections from What Palms Know, his recently published collection of poetry from Lamar University Literary Press. Many of the poems reflect on the natural beauty of the Adirondacks, as well as the sublime, the ordinary, and the scientific.

A Harvard-trained pathologist and scientist, Boor is a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, the oldest medical school west of the Mississippi. His writing frequently brings together his scientific background and stories rooted in real science and history. His other novels include the prophetic 2007 biomedical thriller The Blood Notes of Peter Mallow and the political biomedical thriller of the Vietnam Era, An Ellipse of Skin.

The program will be held at the Old Forge Library, 220 Crosby Blvd. Library Programs are free and open to the public. Anyone interested in Adirondack history, science, literature or simply a good story is invited to attend.

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