An Evening with Nick Offerman
Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop's Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery
Wednesday, October 15th | 7:00 pm
The Harrisburg Book Festival is honored to welcome actor, comedian, and New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman to FNB Field to celebrate the release of his new book, Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop's Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery. Offerman will be joined in conversation with co-author, Lee Buchanan.
This event will take place at the home of the Harrisburg Senators, and will include a conversation, live woodworking demonstration, songs, jokes, and fun for the whole family. Doors will open at 6:00pm; the event will begin at 7:00pm. Seating is general admission; first come, first served.
About the Book:
From New York Times bestselling author, Emmy-winning actor, and charismatically carnivorous woodworker Nick Offerman, an illustrated woodworking guide with projects for the whole family
In his long running hit book Good Clean Fun, Nick Offerman brought us into his woodshop with personal reflections on woodworking alongside instructions to create some of his favorite projects. Now, in Little Woodchucks, the Offerman Woodshop is opening its avuncular doors to woodworkers of all ages in the form of twelve brand-new, family-friendly projects perfect for kids, from beginner projects like a handmade box kite to more challenging offerings like a little free library / meat locker.
Combining his signature wry humor with clearly written and joyfully illustrated project instructions, Little Woodchucks is the perfect way to encourage eye contact and other old-fashioned familial engagements, while introducing young woodworkers-to-be to the satisfaction and good, clean fun of hands-on crafting.
Event Details:
This event will be held — rain or shine — at the Harrisburg Senators Baseball Stadium on City Island.
Every ticket per adult includes a signed copy of the book; children under 16 will be allowed entry for free with an adult who has purchased a ticket.
Seating is general admission; first come, first served.
There will not be a public book signing with the author. Every book will be signed by the author, and there will be additional signed copies available for purchase at the event.
Parking is available on City Island on a first come, first served basis. Parking will be $5 cash or $5.50 card.
About the Speakers:
About the Authors:
Actor, humorist, and woodworker Nick Offerman is the New York Times bestselling author of Paddle Your Own Canoe, Gumption, Good Clean Fun, and Where the Deer and the Antelope Play, as well as co-author of The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, with his wife, Megan Mullally. His onscreen credits include the Emmy award-winning role of Bill in The Last of Us (HBO), Ron Swanson on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, and co-host and executive producer of NBC’s Making It. In 2025, Nick will be featured Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Death by Lightning (Netflix), and as the voices of Papa Smurf’s brother in the Smurfs movie, and Beef Tobin in the FOX animated series, The Great North. Nick and Megan live in Los Angeles, California, with their pups and a fairly decent collection of assorted wood clamps.
Lee Buchanan got her first taste of woodworking in the Kids' Carpentry program in Berkeley, California, at the age of seven. The passion stuck, and after stints as a scenic carpenter, then building science exhibits at the Exploratorium museum, she met a guy named Nick and spent a decade running his LA woodshop, designing and building furniture and carving a whole lot of mustache combs. Lee now lives back in the Bay Area, where she builds custom furniture as LeeBuild, draws cartoons, bakes bread, and makes fun stuff for and with her two little boys in their home woodshop.