It was standing room only at the NUSU Reflection Gallery at Nipissing University on Thursday, November 27 as members of the community gathered to celebrate the Lake Nipissing Beading Project (LNBP) and the next phase of its journey.
For children’s author, editor, and lifelong nature-observer Erin Alladin, every story begins with curiosity about language, landscape, and the overlooked details that make the world feel alive. But before she published acclaimed picture books or built a thriving freelance editing practice, she was a Nipissing University English student with an armful of classical-language textbooks, a deep attachment to Northern Ontario’s woods and water, and a growing fascination with how stories work from the inside out.
