Tonight’s the night John Rae turns up in Calgary. The Arctic explorer will be there in spirit, anyway, for my talk at the U of C.  The event, sponsored by Clan MacRae, helps kick off the 2013 Calgary Highland Games.

Today’s Calgary Herald ran a terrific piece by Chris Nelson, headlined Clan Macrae leads the charge at Games.

And the University of Calgary published a fine piece with, dare I suggest it, an even better headline:

Bestselling Calgary author to give talk on Arctic explorer John Rae. OK, strictly speaking, “Canadian author” would have worked better. But as an ex-Calgarian, I am thrilled to be here, and excited to be giving this talk in my old home town. Who says you can’t go home again?