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Issue 19 Showcase
Join The New Territory Magazine editors, contributors, and friends for an afternoon of readings and fun in celebration of Issue 19! This showcase event is happening Friday, July 3rd at Boat Town Brewing in Lebanon, Missouri.
Please RSVP below so we can pull up a chair for you.
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Friday, July 3rd, 2026
4:00 p.m. – Doors open, meet + greet! Check out merch and collaborator tables
5:00 p.m. – Readers: Amy De La Hunt, Dean Klinkenberg, Brooks Blevins
5:30 p.m. – Program ends, mix and mingle until 6:00
Plan to stay all evening to enjoy the 250th anniversary celebration in downtown Lebanon: “The America 250 Committee is aiming to serve 15,663 hot dogs — one for every person who calls Lebanon home.” There are also evening concerts. Find detailed information here.
- Order from the bar and pizza counter
- We’ll have some cookies too!
- The New Territory will have a merchandise table filled with Issue 18, back issues, tees, pins and more.
- Lebanon-Laclede County Library will have a table
- Crossroads of Missouri, hot off the press by Lebanon High School 2026 students, will be available
Meet Our Readers
Amy De La Hunt
Amy De La Hunt is a journalist, writer and editor living in the St. Louis metro area, where she covers dining and restaurants for St. Louis Magazine. She also writes about community development, education, and entrepreneurship for a variety of clients and publications across the U.S. She frequently joins her two adult children for adventures as they explore their new home turf in Springfield, Missouri, and Olathe, Kansas.
Dean Klinkenberg
Dean Klinkenberg explores themes of place, identity, ambiguity, and the quiet tensions that linger beneath everyday lives through historical fiction, essays, guidebooks, and noir-inspired fiction. He draws inspiration from travel, especially the people and places he’s come to know along the Mississippi River, as well as from his prior professional experiences as a Clinical Psychologist. (In 2006, he was awarded the Theodore H. Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical Psychology.) He lives in St. Louis with his husband.
Brooks Blevins
Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University in Springfield. A native of the Arkansas Ozarks, he holds a PhD in American History from Auburn University. Blevins is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South and the three-volume A History of the Ozarks. His podcast, The Old Ozarks, returns for a second season in July 2026.