Whitefish Community Center will host authors Charlie B. Rogers and Stormy Good Monod for a book signing event on Monday, March 10 from 3 to 6 p.m.  

Good, a retired educator, splits her time between Northwest Montana and western Alberta, and is author of the renowned guide "Day Hikes Around the Flathead.”  

“This book has been a labor of love for me,” said Good of the 25th anniversary edition released last fall. “Re-hiking a trail gets me excited because each time is like visiting a dear friend, while new trails can be an unexpected pleasure with each footstep.”  

The newest edition showcases 138 hikes of various difficulties in or near the Flathead Valley, 18 of which are new to the edition.  

Rogers, 82, is a lifelong Whitefish resident who recently completed "My Vanishing Home Town,” published in coordination with the Stumptown Historical Society.  

Rogers’ book features intricate, detailed pencil drawings of Whitefish’s early days dating back to 1890, with themes of logging camps and equipment, barns and cabins, small businesses, lookouts and ranger stations, tie hacks, hermits, depression cars and tractors. 

“I know Charlie as a dependable and charming volunteer, a capable fixer of anything, and generous donor of fascinating artifacts and stories,” writes Jill Evans, executive director of Stumptown Historical Society, in an introduction to the book. “Who knew he was also an artist?  

“Our mission is to preserve the history of Whitefish and Northwest Montana. This book is part of that charge.”  

On the first page is “A Tribute to the Old Men and the Lake” - a nod to Ernest Hemingway’s novel, “Old Man and the Sea,” Rogers said.  

“All winter long, I’d be out there in a little shanty. There were plentiful fish in [Whitefish] Lake then,” Rogers reminisced. 

“The men and birds lived in harmony with one another and the lake was at peace with itself,” Rogers’ page reads.  

All profits from the book signing event will go toward the Whitefish Community Center.