Donald Proffit Book Reading

Donald Proffit, a former arts educator and school principal, was assigned to alternative service in Alaska as a Vietnam War-era conscientious objector. He will read from his memoir, Hardship Alaska, and talk about these formative years of exile, service, soul-searching, and self-discovery. Arriving in Anchorage, Alaska on Halloween night 1970 after a ten-day transcontinental journey by car-his trek replete with a breakdown on a Yukon mountain pass, a freak snow gale on the Saskatchewan prairie, rough men in roadhouses, Soviet skaters, and good Samaritans-he realized quickly that he was no longer in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His world was about to change forever.