Wednesday, May 13th, 2026 
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
In-Person Event
 REGISTRATION SUGGESTED 

Author Steven Wright will be joining us to share his experiences and book The Weight I Carried: Hiking Through Grief and Healing on the Appalachian Trail. There will then be time for a Q&A session, as well as an opportunity for book signing. Register for this event online.

Steven C. Wright is a lifelong outdoorsman, thru-hiker, survivalist, craftsman, and storyteller who believes that nature has a way of stripping life down to what is real, necessary, and true.

In 2023, Steven became the last northbound thru-hiker to complete the 2,198-mile Appalachian Trail, a journey born not from adventure alone, but from grief, faith, and a promise to his late wife, Sandy, who he lost to triple-negative breast cancer. That journey — through storms, injury, solitude, and soul-deep reckoning — became the foundation of his memoir, The Weight I Carried: Hiking Through Grief and Healing on the Appalachian Trail, a raw, unfiltered account of love, loss, childhood trauma, resilience, and redemption. But the trail was only one chapter of a life forged in hard places.

Steven is a self-employed slate roofer and coppersmith by trade, spending decades working at heights, shaping metal, restoring historic structures, and building things meant to outlast storms and time. His hands know weight, weather, and endurance — the same qualities that carried him across mountains. He has traveled the world on mission and disaster-relief trips, helping rebuild communities after hurricanes, earthquakes, and devastation, offering not just labor but presence, faith, and compassion in the aftermath of loss.

An outdoor survivalist since childhood, Steven has spent his life in the woods — backpacking, mountaineering, wild camping, trail running, and learning how to live simply and self-reliantly in extreme conditions. From freezing ridge lines to remote forests, his gear has been tested by real storms, real miles, real consequences.

Steven’s mission is simple: To live fully. To tell the truth. To honor the past.

And to help others see that your scars are not evidence that you’re broken. They are evidence that you survived.